It's the last update of the year and we've saved the biggest and best for last. We've listened to you, and put a strong focus on the basics - core modeling and drawing productivity. So not only are there a huge number of improvements, but they apply to everyone. We hope you find not just one, but many things that make your life easier.

This is the largest update we have ever done. Settle in, let's get started, and remember to keep scrolling down the page.

GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS

CHANGE MEASURE UNITS

You can now change the units that are displayed when measuring in Onshape.

MAX DISTANCE MEASURE TYPE

You can now get maximum distance dimensions with any combination of selections. In the past this was limited to only certain geometry.

"N" KEY TWICE TO FLIP NORMAL VIEW

You can now hit the "N" key on your keyboard a second time to flip the normal view.

FOLDER LOCATION

Your Document's folder location will now appears in the Document toolbar. Clicking the location opens that folder in a new browser tab.

SKETCH IMPROVEMENTS

SCALE SKETCH

You can now scale a sketch in Onshape.

CURVATURE VISUALIZATION IMPROVEMENTS

There have been multiple improvements to visualizing sketch curvature in Onshape.

SKETCH TESSELLATION QUALITY

Sketch tessellation quality has been dramatically improved in this update.

ALIGNED RECTANGLE

You will find a new Aligned Rectangle feature in the sketch toolbar. This new feature is useful when you need a rectangle that is not horizontally and vertically constrained.

FEATURE IMPROVEMENTS

SHOW DEPENDENCIES

You can now view the dependencies of any feature in the Feature List. Simply right-click the feature and choose "Show dependencies."

SHOW ISO CURVES IN LOFT

You can now turn iso Curves on and off in the Loft feature. These curves can be useful for understanding the quality of your surface. 

KEEP TOOLS IN THICKEN

By default, when thickening a surface, the underlying surface will be deleted as part of the feature. You can keep the surface by checking "Keep tools" in the Thicken dialog. In the past, thickened surfaces had to be deleted as a separate step.

REMEMBER SOLID/SURFACE SELECTION

Features that have a "Solid" and "Surface" option will remember your previous selection and default to that for subsequent features.

REMEMBER LAST LOCATION IN INSERT DIALOG

The last location you browsed to insert will be the default location for subsequent insert operations.

REMEMBER PREVIOUS VALUES

Features like Plane, Fillet, Chamfer, Delete Face, Offset Surface and more will now remember your key selections and make them the default for subsequent features.

MISSING SELECTIONS

You will now see a special warning indicator for missing selections. If you hover over the feature with the warning it will tell you the number of missing selections.

DRAWING IMPROVEMENTS

CHANGE BOM TEMPLATE IN ONSHAPE DRAWINGS

You can now change the BOM template used when inserting a BOM table into an Onshape Drawing.

UNDERLINE OVERRIDDEN DIMENSIONS

By default, any manually altered drawing dimension will be underlined to indicate it has been changed. With this update you now have an option to remove that underline by unchecking the new "Underline overridden dimensions" option in the Drawing Properties.

ADDITIONAL HATCH OPTIONS 

You now have many additional hatch options. Hatch can be edited by right-clicking and choosing "Edit hatch" or from the Drawing Properties flyout.

LEARNING CENTER UPDATES

LOCALIZATION UPDATES

All of the technical briefings in the Onshape Learning Center are now available in Japanese. Change the language by navigating to the article and selecting the language in the pulldown.

Please take a moment to try out these new features and improvements and leave your comments on the Onshape Forum. For a detailed list of all the changes in this update, please see the changelog.

Remember: The updates listed here are now live for all users when creating new Onshape Documents and over the next few days these features will also be available in Documents created before the date of this update.