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Improvements to Onshape - March 14th, 2022
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.
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.
The Styles panel will support additional drawing entities in future releases. Stay tuned!
Pinned references in Drawings behave the same as pinned references elsewhere in Onshape.
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.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".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.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.PIN DRAWING VIEW REFERENCES
You may now pin view references in Drawings to a specific version.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.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.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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Fantastic!, great stuff!3
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Wow! I love everything!
I may actaully try a rendering some day...2 -
Thanks, look forward to trying some of these1
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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.Simon Gatrall | Product Development, Engineering, Design, Onshape | Ex- IDEO, PCH, Unagi, Carbon | LinkedIn
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Finally Pin reference for a drawing view , thank you
Please do the same for Derive in Part Studios
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@Roy_Mutalik
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Hi MBartlett21,MBartlett21 said:@Roy_Mutalik
The changelog doesn't seem to be updated yet
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 RamsleyDirector of Quality Engineering & Release Manager onshape.com2 -
Agreed! I love that there is more functionality around auto-generated drawing content, but I hope it will be somewhat customizableS1mon 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. 4 -
What a great update! Now please, remove "Drawing 1" from the name of every new drawing I make. Something for the next update?
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Great updates!!2
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Fabulous, thank you
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Wonderful as always! So much good stuff in the last three updates, I'm still catching up.2
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A++ update team! Fantastic work, thank you.
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Thank you Onshape for the continued improvements. The LoftTopologyis going to be way more valuable than one could possibly imagine. it will cut regen time for some of my features in half at least due to me having to split those faces after the loft executes.
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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?2
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I'm excited by hover and Y to hide a part and hover and SHIFT/Y to show it again!2
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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.0
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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.2 -
Great update!
Can we take this progress with transforming renderings, and use it in a platform to create installation instructions?0 -
Anyone else catch the freaky eyed face in the dimension style demo?
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I second @S1mon 's concern about "show centerlines" on drawings being ON by default. Just opened a drawing where centerlines were unneeded - had to go and manually turn them off on each view.
I think OFF by default (or controlled in drawing format maybe?) might be better.
Also - I may want to be able to use "show/hide edges" to control the visibility of SOME centerlines in a view.
Keep up the great work!
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Thanks, great updates0
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Is there a way to turn off the centermarks and centerlines when exporting .dxf's?
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Thanks for the great updates. I would like to have the centerlines automatically. Can that be in the settings somewhere?1
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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.2 -
Awesome! Dissolve Replicate!1
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PeteYodis said:
We have a bug on this and are working to correct it as a high priority. We apologize in the meantime.Dieselboy said:Is there a way to turn off the centermarks and centerlines when exporting .dxf's?Yeah, I just exported a drawing and came over to comment.That's a brutal bug. Good to know it's being fixed.0 -
This looks interesting (from the changelog):FeatureScript: Expose loftTopology in opLoft for stability improvements2
