Improvements to Onshape - August 11th, 2023

cody_armstrong · August 2023

The non-stop cadence of improvements continues with another big update. It includes a long list of core improvements, so we hope you are as enthusiastic as we are. Let's dig in!

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GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS

SET DEFAULT ROTATION BEHAVIOR

You can now set the default rotation to a constrained behavior. In the past, constrained rotation required holding down the Alt key.

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/hsvkt0sldf

CURVE PATTERN IMPROVEMENTS

You can now define a Curve pattern by distance between instances.

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/h19pqd88bs

EXPLODE LINE IMPROVEMENTS

You can now hide (or show) all explode lines at once by right-clicking the Exploded view in the Exploded view panel.

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/v2n8n9rx37

STANDARD CONTENT AUTHORING PERMISSIONS

Onshape Professional administrators will find a new authoring permission to control who in the company is allowed to edit Standard content.

RENAME DISPLAY STATES

You can now rename Display states.

STANDARD CONTENT PROPERTY IMPROVEMENTS

Individuals using the Onshape Free, Standard, or Education plans can now edit Standard content properties. In the past, this was limited to companies using Onshape Professional or Enterprise.

DRAWING IMPROVEMENTS

CENTERMARK IMPROVEMENTS

You can now apply Centermarks to holes that are not normal to the view direction.

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IMPROVEMENTS TO DRAWING VIEWS WITH FAULTY GEOMETRY

Faulty imported parts are now ignored by default when creating drawing views. You can also now choose to hide (or show) faulty imported geometry in assembly drawing views. Hiding faulty parts in drawing views can substantially improve performance.

RELEASE MANAGEMENT

SAVE RELEASE CANDIDATE DRAFTS

You can now save draft release candidates so that they can be completed later. This means big release candidates do not need to be created and submitted all at once.

https://onshape.wistia.com/medias/lt5c9tioao

ENTERPRISE IMPROVEMENTS

UNPUBLISH CUSTOM WORKFLOWS

Onshape Enterprise Adminstrators now have an option to "Unpublish" workflows. This makes it easy for administrators to hide workflows that are no longer used. Unpublishing will not impact released or pending Release candidates using that workflow. This change only impacts new releases.

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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.

shawn_crocker · August 2023

SAVE RELEASE CANDIDATE DRAFTS

Love it! I've been wanting this for sometime but have always been distracted and never got an improvement request in. When working on a large release, the candidate is usually so laggy and sometimes, the browser view will suddenly require a refresh. Will be great to be able to save while editing it to avoid lost work.

xTimRice · August 2023

Rename Display States 🙌

MichaelPascoe · August 2023

Quality improvements. Thanks Team!

Woot, Rename Display States!

brucebartlett · August 2023

Great list of improvements! Thankyou. Save release will be handy

brucebartlett · August 2023

I really like the little fastened to origin icon.

Lucas_Kuhns · August 2023

Two very nice quality-of-life updates: release candidate drafts and renaming display states. Maybe now I'll actually use display states

Chris_D_Mentes_001 · August 2023

The most perfect update for my 30th Birthday! NON Default Turntable rotation was literally what threw me off Onshape to begin with. Thank Goodness I came back!

james_mukisa · August 2023

WOW...

michael_zeagler · August 2023

Save release candidates is a huge one. If you get it kicked back, redoing everything is a huge pain. It could be such a minor fix and then you'd have to go through all that twice.

eric_pesty · August 2023

michael_zeagler said:

Save release candidates is a huge one. If you get it kicked back, redoing everything is a huge pain. It could be such a minor fix and then you'd have to go through all that twice.

I Haven't tried the save option yet...

Note that you already had the option to "clone" a rejected release (to avoid re-creating everything from scratch):
- go to the version you wan to release
- right click (not left) on the rejected release in the version tree and then go to that release and pick "clone"

michael_zeagler · August 2023

Oh that's new, I haven't used professional in at least a year. That's great.

david_riedell · August 2023

These are some great changes!
Do y'all have any updates on when Cloudmilling CAM will roll out? Or any more details about how it'll work?

jr_vrvrkn · August 2023

"You can now apply Centermarks to holes that are not normal to the view direction. " only works for actual hole features? not cilindrical faces?
and thanks for the excellent update (as usual)!

Cache_River_Mill · August 2023

Curve pattern. 👀

Matthew · August 2023

So now that we can save release candidates, can we keep working on the drawings until it's out of draft state and the changes be reflected in the RC?

NeilCooke · August 2023

Matthew said:

So now that we can save release candidates, can we keep working on the drawings until it's out of draft state and the changes be reflected in the RC?

Release drafts refer to the current workspace so you can make as many changes as you like before submitting the RC.

john_rousseau · August 2023

@david_riedell, as a rule we don't talk about release dates for upcoming functionality. We do realize how important CAM functionality is to our customers and we're just as excited as you are to get it released.