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Improvements to Onshape - March 14th, 2022

Roy_Mutalik
Roy_Mutalik Member, Onshape Employees Posts: 41 image
edited March 2022 in New in Onshape
It's March, and we've reached the 4th Onshape release of this year. Already, we have features that were teased during Onshape Live '22 making it into the product!

Let's jump right in.

GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS

DISSOLVE REPLICATE GROUP

You may now easily dissolve the grouping created from a Replicate feature in an Onshape assembly. 

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/h63apiapoc

By definition, dissolving a Replicate group replaces the parametrically-linked feature in the assembly model with individual parts and mates. This means if additional holes are added in the above example, you would need to use Replicate again to add the instances to any new holes.

SHOW HIDDEN PARTS FROM GRAPHICS WINDOW

Hidden parts can now be shown directly from the graphics window. Simply hover over the location of a hidden part, and use the keyboard shortcut Shift + "Y".

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/80c304d0ic


DRAWING IMPROVEMENTS

DRAWINGS STYLES PANEL FOR DIMENSIONS

A new Styles panel has been added, allowing you to format individual dimensions separately from the Drawing properties.

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/v6aw0ps58m

The Styles panel will support additional drawing entities in future releases. Stay tuned!

IMPROVED SECTION VIEW HATCHING

Automatic Section view hatching has been improved to produce clearer views, especially on complex models with many parts.

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/qy7x6csmhy


PIN DRAWING VIEW REFERENCES

You may now pin view references in Drawings to a specific version.

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/8f17524ihm

Pinned references in Drawings behave the same as pinned references elsewhere in Onshape. 

AUTOMATIC CENTERLINES

Centerlines are now automatically inserted for views with cylindrical geometry. These centerlines are shown by default for part views, but are hidden for assembly views. They can be toggled on or off from the right-click menu.

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/5rdsz3xovy


TOGGLE AUTOMATIC CENTERMARKS

Automatically created Centermarks can also be easily toggled on or off from the right-click menu.


TRIM DETAIL-VIEW DIMENSION LINES

Dimension extension lines now more intelligently trim at the view boundaries for Detail views.





RENDER STUDIO IMPROVEMENTS

TRANSFORM PARTS (IN ASSEMBLIES)

You can now move, rotate, and scale individual parts or subassemblies directly within a Render studio of an Onshape assembly. 

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/vs0ahzy26e



LEARNING CENTER IMPROVEMENTS

VIDEO UPDATES

A couple videos have been updated in existing courses.

The Hole feature video in Part Design Using Part Studios now includes using hole tables in a Part Studio and the 

The Variable & Expressions video in Advanced Part Design now includes variable tables, descriptions, and how to update variable names.



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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  • david_bornstein
    david_bornstein Member Posts: 6 PRO
    Fantastic!, great stuff!
  • bill_schnoebelen
    bill_schnoebelen OS Professional, Developers, User Group Leader, csevp Posts: 133 PRO
    Wow! I love everything! 

    I may actaully try a rendering some day...
  • brucebartlett
    brucebartlett Member, OS Professional, Mentor, User Group Leader Posts: 2,148 PRO
    Thanks, look forward to trying some of these
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  • MBartlett21
    MBartlett21 Member, OS Professional, Developers Posts: 2,064 PRO
    @Roy_Mutalik
    The changelog doesn't seem to be updated yet
    mb - draftsman - also FS author: View FeatureScripts
    IR for AS/NZS 1100
  • jakeramsley
    jakeramsley Member, Moderator, Onshape Employees, Developers, csevp Posts: 669 image
    MBartlett21 said:
    @Roy_Mutalik
    The changelog doesn't seem to be updated yet
    Hi MBartlett21,

    You are correct, we are currently having some issues that are preventing the changelog from being deployed.  We're hoping we can get it resolved before the morning, but if not we'll have it updated some time tomorrow.  It's not ideal, we want all of our processes working seamlessly, but I made a decision that the changelog can lag behind and new functionality can be released while we work to update it.
    Jake Ramsley

    Director of Quality Engineering & Release Manager              onshape.com
  • eirik_r_guttulsrud
    eirik_r_guttulsrud Member Posts: 27 PRO
    S1mon said:
    A few useful improvements. 

    I'm a little concerned about the auto insertion of centerlines. Please make this an option. I don't want to have to hide them every time I add a view. I may want to show select centerlines, but I pretty much never want them all shown by default.
    Agreed! I love that there is more functionality around auto-generated drawing content, but I hope it will be somewhat customizable :)
  • Misael
    Misael Member Posts: 11 PRO
    Great updates!!
  • GWS50
    GWS50 Member Posts: 528 PRO
    Fabulous, thank you
  • Alex_Pitt
    Alex_Pitt Member Posts: 77 PRO
    Wonderful as always! So much good stuff in the last three updates, I'm still catching up.
  • MichaelPascoe
    MichaelPascoe Member Posts: 2,940 PRO
    A++ update team! Fantastic work, thank you.

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  • shawn_crocker
    shawn_crocker Member, OS Professional Posts: 1,033 PRO
    Another great one!  Dissolve replicate is perfect!  I have grown to really love the newer replicate functionality.  It is really flexible when creating in-context surfaces to be used as a control for the placement of replicated components.  I have still very often wanted to dissolve the feature.  So great!  Now hopefully we will get the ability to dissolve any of the assembly patterns.  Also very stoked for pinning drawing reference.  Hoping we will get to soon also pin version reference of features in part studios?
  • nick_lumb
    nick_lumb Member Posts: 26 PRO
    I'm excited by hover and Y to hide a part and hover and SHIFT/Y to show it again!
  • Erin_Connelly
    Erin_Connelly Member Posts: 2 ✭
    edited March 2022
    Love the shift-Y! Would love to see it be able to show parts that are occluded by another part in front, like how holding Alt allows for selecting occluded features.
  • THOMAS_VIVANT
    THOMAS_VIVANT Member Posts: 3 PRO
    Excellent improvement for drawings.
    In section view, it will be nice to have the possibility to exclude some cylindrical part (the ones without internal shape) from the section cut but still showing them uncut on the section view.
  • phil_erdley628
    phil_erdley628 Member Posts: 16 PRO
    Great update!

    Can we take this progress with transforming renderings, and use it in a platform to create installation instructions?
  • GuidoNADEC
    GuidoNADEC Member Posts: 29 PRO
    Thanks, great updates

  • Dieselboy
    Dieselboy Member Posts: 4 PRO
    Is there a way to turn off the centermarks and centerlines when exporting .dxf's?
  • PeteYodis
    PeteYodis Moderator, Onshape Employees Posts: 594 image
    Dieselboy said:
    Is there a way to turn off the centermarks and centerlines when exporting .dxf's?
    We have a bug on this and are working to correct it as a high priority.  We apologize in the meantime.  
  • david_rubli136
    david_rubli136 Member Posts: 18 PRO
    Thanks for the great updates. I would like to have the centerlines automatically. Can that be in the settings somewhere?
  • john_mcclary
    john_mcclary Member, Developers Posts: 4,095 PRO
    Great stuff

    Like how the section view looks. Now it looks like it was made with a professional cad program. 

    Thanks for fixing the detail view dimensions, and adding styles and auto centerlines. 

    I agree that auto centerlines should be a choice. Perhaps part of the drawing properties menu. 
  • Kyler_Walker
    Kyler_Walker Member Posts: 211 ✭✭✭✭
    Awesome! Dissolve Replicate!  
  • Tony_C_
    Tony_C_ Member Posts: 281 PRO
    PeteYodis said:
    Dieselboy said:
    Is there a way to turn off the centermarks and centerlines when exporting .dxf's?
    We have a bug on this and are working to correct it as a high priority.  We apologize in the meantime.  
    Yeah, I just exported a drawing and came over to comment.

    That's a brutal bug. Good to know it's being fixed.
  • MBartlett21
    MBartlett21 Member, OS Professional, Developers Posts: 2,064 PRO
    This looks interesting (from the changelog):
    FeatureScript: Expose loftTopology in opLoft for stability improvements
    mb - draftsman - also FS author: View FeatureScripts
    IR for AS/NZS 1100

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