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Improvements to Onshape - January 31st, 2022
ONSHAPE RENDER STUDIO
We are excited to announce the beta launch of Render Studio. Onshape users now have the ability to create photo realistic renderings of designs from within the Onshape platform. With this integrated rendering capability designers and engineers can now create hyper-realistic images using sophisticated materials, textures and lighting within a high resolution, 360-degree environment - allowing faster, easier communication of design ideas.
Onshape Render Studio will initially be launched as a beta capability. During this initial release, we have included Render Studio with all of our Professional and Enterprise subscriptions while we continue to refine the experience and offering.
MODELING IMPROVEMENTS
CONTROL POINTS FOR BRIDGING CURVES
Bridging curves now allow direct control of the curve via control points. This gives you enhanced control over the curves that you are creating and leads to higher quality curvature transitions.VISUALIZATION IMPROVEMENTS
HIGHLIGHT SELECTED FACES
In this release, faces that are used in feature creation and editing are highlighted for improved visibility.SELECT THROUGH TRANSLUCENT OBJECTS
When working with geometry that is behind a translucent part, you can now hold down ALT on Windows or Option on Mac to select edges, faces, and vertices that would otherwise be occluded.DRAWING IMPROVEMENTS
DOT ADDED FOR DIMENSION ARROWHEAD STYLE
You can now change the dimension arrowhead style to a dot in the Dimensions section of the Drawing properties pane.COLORED NOTES
You can now change the color of text in notes directly from the notes tool.FEATURESCRIPT IMPROVEMENTS
FEATURESCRIPT EVALUATION IMPROVEMENTS
In this release, evSurfaceDefinition and evCurveDefinition now return b-spline surfaces and curves respectively. There is also a new function named evApproximateBSplineCurve that will approximate any curve as a b-spline. Both of these updates give you more flexibility in capturing existing geometry for use in Custom Features.ENTERPRISE IMPROVEMENTS
FILTER PROJECT DASHBOARD BY PROJECT ROLE
A project role filter has been added to project dashboards in the Analytics section of Onshape Enterprise.LEARNING CENTER IMPROVEMENTS
LOCALIZATION UPDATES
All of the technical briefings in the Onshape Learning Center are now available in Spanish. Change the language by navigating to the article and selecting the language in the pulldown.
SEARCH OPTION WITHIN COURSES
A new search field is enabled at the top of a course outline in any self-paced course. This enables you to search for keywords and topics within the course.
VIDEO UPDATES
There have been new videos added to existing courses as well! Check out the updated Measure video in the Navigating Onshape course, updates to the DXF/DWG import video in the Importing and Exporting Data course, and a new video explaining how to use the Dependencies feature in the Part Design Using Part Studios course.Please take a moment to try out these new features and improvements and leave your comments below. 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 Documents. Over the next few days, these features will also be available in Documents created before this update.
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This is one of the more exciting ones for me. Thanks to the Onshape team!
(BTW the Change Log is missing the evSurfaceDefinition and evCurveDefinition improvements)
PhD, Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University
Thanks Onshape for giving it a stab. I'm sure within few updates we can put our rendering workstations for sale.
At first everything looks good, easy to drag & drop materials and environment / lightning. There seems to be plenty of everything (materials, scenes etc.)
Very nice to play with and create things that look nice.
But unfortunately my work doesn't benefit about creating thing that doesn't exist so I need to mimic our material as close as possible and use similar lightning to photo studio or real world room where I could position our furniture.
When I actually started working view seems a bit too crowded and model itself is too small to see the details. I would like to move model into another screen (browser window) and have only tools on other. This would be perfect also for team work with big screen for model.
Manipulating model / position in environment needs a lot of refining. I like model manipulating in Onshape and would expect same in rendering studio. There is three things to manipulate: camera, model and environment - now they all somehow move together which makes it very difficult to position and scale model to environment. Scrolling should zoom camera in/out not scale model against background.
I couldn't quickly figure out how to edit materials and/or create my own materials. Or how to link/unlink materials. Coming from Keyshot I miss rmb menus to change properties for any part.
It is beta and I do like the result of this quick test so I am willing to put in the time to learn and work with you all to make it awesome.
Also, thanks for the brief overview @3dcad. Saves me from doing the same thing as in depth this morning
I have applied an emission, but the lights will not render. Anyone know how to get the lights to work?
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Request to make it so the leader line changes to match the color chosen? Here's what it looks like right now.
There are lots more materials in the libraries which include capability to add colormaps, bumpmaps etc. And expanded library of environments is included:
In terms of usability and features, look out for a upcoming webinars and other sources of how-to's.
It may be your drawing hasn't been updated fully yet? Sometimes it takes a while for all of the Onshape drawings to be updated after a release.
Try on a new document.
Render Studio should be working for all users on the Professional plan and does not require requesting access. We've opened a support ticket to further investigate.
Does this mean when it is officially released it will NOT be available to Educational and Free users?
From what I understand. Pro and Enterprise get early access / beta functionality for some abilities. Rendering will be released to the free and edu accounts once the functionality is out of beta. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.
- I was wrong.
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Thanks for those details. Looks like you are pretty comfortable with the interface. I need to get my eyes checked. I remember being confused last year over the materials/environments tab when this was reality server. That galvanized sheet metal looks very believable.