Improvements to Onshape - February 18th, 2022

gerhard_swanepoel · February 2022

Neil refers to "Super Derive" custom feature in the frames demo. Does anyone know if this is available and how it works? I tried to search in custom features but could not find anything.

gerhard_swanepoel · February 2022

@NeilCooke Great to see frames. In your demo you used a "Super Derive" custom feature. I am unable to find it when searching custom features. Is it not available to the public? What does it do? It looks like something I might be interested in.

NeilCooke · February 2022

gerhard_swanepoel said:

Neil refers to "Super Derive" custom feature in the frames demo. Does anyone know if this is available and how it works? I tried to search in custom features but could not find anything.

Here you go: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/cfef86ed4f9635531599a973
It allows you to place multiple instances by mate connector so you don't have to use Transform afterwards.

david_rubli136 · February 2022

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Ergoflex said:

the "batch export from tab manager" is an amazing update but it would allow for the export of the active configuration of the part/assembly, I hope you can add an update for "batch export from assembly tree" since you know that sometimes an assembly include different configurations.

@Ergoflex Configuration is a tricky one as configuration that you see in tab is whatever user looked last and different for different users. When you say ""batch export from assembly tree" do you mean export all unique part configuration version used in assembly (equivalent to exporting each BOM row)? Will it be better to export from BOM?

Would you need subassemblies from tree also? There may be duplication of lots of data if we select all subassemblies so I am wondering what will be useful for subassemblies.

What is needed is export from flatend BOM of all drawings (parts and assemblies) to PDF and all parts to STEP (as a common example).

monroe_weber_shirk · February 2022

variable descriptions are a great idea. I see that you can use setVariable to add a description, but getVariable doesn't return the description. Is there a way to add descriptions when creating variables in FeatureScript?
var myNewVariable = {value:5 * meter, description: "the length of my imagination"}

GWS50 · February 2022

Another fantastic update....thank you so much

thomas_frederiksen · February 2022

frames 🤯

n_schoemaeker · February 2022

This is a nice set of features and improvements.

Congrats to de devs !!

devin_johnson79 · February 2022

All I can say is, well done #TeamOnshape. I have been looking forward to Frames for quite some time as I used the Beams feature extensively in my designs. I will also be adding descriptions to my variables as this is a must!

Josiah_Harthcock · February 2022

This is wonderful! Thanks guys! @ian_d_gardiner agreed. Beams was amazing but this looks like a whole other level

phil_erdley628 · February 2022

This may be your best improvements update yet!

Between the integration and improvements with Frames and the batch export, I think you just saved me an additional hire.

Jacob_Corder · February 2022

Amazing Onshape. The new featurescript additions are always impressive. Approximating a b spline surface is quite an achievement!!! Thank you for all your hard work. It enables us to create faster, better, and more robust features.

SethF · February 2022

hey @shawn_crocker, just a heads up that @jakeramsley already answered a similar question a little above your comment.

NBerger · February 2022

Batch export from tab manager... perhaps we're one step closer to batch export from release candidates?
Also thanks as usual guys

ilya_baran · February 2022

@Jacob_Corder Yeah, it's not that much work when there's a Parasolid function to do that

The downside is that it leaves us with their implementation choices -- they're usually very good, but in this case, the trim boundary curve approximations seem to be degree 2 in all my testing (which is probably not what I would've done).

S1mon · February 2022

Great updates, but why oh why does cut/paste drawing views not use the same location on the sheet when pasting to a new sheet?

Jacob_Corder · February 2022

@ilya_baran
doesn't matter if parasolid has a function, you guys enabled it for us

I see that the trim boundary is 2 dimension and degree 1 or degree 2. I was curious to why also, so I ran a test to see what they were. and interestingly, they are the parameters for evFaceTangentPlane. Well they were for a few of my surfaces. Some are just having odd results.

With this, I was able to create the trimming curve for the B Spline surface. Now if only there was a native imprintEdge function.. Hmm.

CBowers · February 2022

Excited for Frames. It's a step in the right direction. Unfortunately the cut list feature doesn't seem customizable enough for the drawing and BOM format my company is using, so I'll have to continue using it like the beams feature and making assemblies.

john_rousseau · February 2022

Hi @CBowers. Please make sure you file a ticket for the customizations you are looking for. This will help us make the feature better.

Lewis_Maina_Muthoni · February 2022

What's an amazing NEW features , Onshape never dissapoints , Thanks onshape

daniel_cook · February 2022

I saw Frames and audibly gasped! Just saved days of work for future me!

ted_schundler · February 2022

It's nice to see the beams feature is an official part of OnShape. Good UI tweaks for it too.

It would be helpful for lumber to output the cutlist in fractional inches: There is no 0.875 on a tape measure.

Also the two angles listed are ambiguous - is that on the wide or narrow end of a 2x4? There doesn't seem to be any way to clarify in the cutlist without a diagram & callout

nick_papageorge_dayjob · February 2022

Very nice work. I have used Beams FS extensively, with both custom tooled aluminum extrusions, and 8020. Happy to see its functionality added to the core OS software. Also happy to see good FS's being more accessible. I wish OS would ship with the top FS's as default. Maybe pay a royalty to the developer who made it for each use. Or give the developer credit some other way. Or outright buy it from the developer? I just learned of mulit-mate-connector and mate-connector-at-origin from OS support. Very useful!

don_williams909 · February 2022

Wow!!! How many huge improvements is this in a row now? GREAT Stuff.

alfredo_nieto · February 2022

Great updates as always!

About copying and pasting drawing views, could it be possible to extend this update to section views, aligned section views, and auxiliary views too? Seems like these should have been included in the improvement.

Thanks!

Ivan_Deetlefs · February 2022

Massive update. For batch export, it will also be very helpful if you could export the latest revision of the drawing since this is what the procurement team needs. Perhaps a list can be created when exporting with option to select main, latest revision or custom revision (might not even be necessary).

mike_hölscher · February 2022

Haha, after all these years

I submitted Batch Export as an improvement request in July 2017, and it became one of the more popular ones. Good to see it is here!

Rendering, Frames, you guys are really spoiling us these days!

Now just give us a native 3D Sketch so we can really rock those Frames