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Improvements to Onshape - November 6th, 2023
Roy_Mutalik
Member, Onshape Employees Posts: 37 
It's already November! We may be nearing the end of the year, but there's no end in sight for meaningful Onshape updates! Let's jump right in.
SPECIFY FOLDER ON CREATE
You can now directly create a document or folder anywhere within your Onshape folder structure, without having to navigate into the folder first.
Note: Bend Allowance or Deduction is not applicable for Hem features at this time.
You can now move the Rollback bar using the arrow keys on your keyboard. This makes it easy to step through a part to understand how it was built.
Several new keyboard shortcuts have been added for sketch constraints which previously did not have any assigned. Please expand below for the full listing.
EXPAND OR COLLAPSE ALL NODES IN INSTANCE LIST
You may now expand or collapse all Assembly nodes, from a right-click of the top level Assembly line item in the Assembly Instances list.
GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS
SPECIFY FOLDER ON CREATE
You can now directly create a document or folder anywhere within your Onshape folder structure, without having to navigate into the folder first.EXPORT OPTION FROM PRODUCT LIST VIEW
You will now find the option to export directly from a right-click within the List viewSECTION VIEW FACE MEASUREMENT
You can now measure the cut-face of a Section view from the Measure tool.PART STUDIOS
DEFINE PLANE BY TANGENT
A new Tangent definition option has been added to the Plane feature.SHEET METAL - BEND DEDUCTION AND BEND ALLOWANCE
You may now define sheet metal bends using a Bend Allowance or a Bend Deduction in the Sheet metal model feature, and edit their values in the Sheet metal table.Note: Bend Allowance or Deduction is not applicable for Hem features at this time.
MOVE ROLLBACK - KEYBOARD SHORTCUT
You can now move the Rollback bar using the arrow keys on your keyboard. This makes it easy to step through a part to understand how it was built.
NEW KEYBOARD SHORTCUTS FOR SKETCH CONSTRAINTS
Several new keyboard shortcuts have been added for sketch constraints which previously did not have any assigned. Please expand below for the full listing.Concentric - shift+o
Perpendicular - shift+l
Midpoint - shift+m
Normal - shift+k
Pierce - shift+g
Symmetric - shift+q
Fix - shift+j
Curvature - shift+u
Perpendicular - shift+l
Midpoint - shift+m
Normal - shift+k
Pierce - shift+g
Symmetric - shift+q
Fix - shift+j
Curvature - shift+u
ASSEMBLY IMPROVEMENTS
EXPAND OR COLLAPSE ALL NODES IN INSTANCE LIST
You may now expand or collapse all Assembly nodes, from a right-click of the top level Assembly line item in the Assembly Instances list.DRAWING IMPROVEMENTS
INSPECTION TABLE CUSTOMIZATION
You can now customize which property columns are shown on a Drawing Inspection table.HATCH NON-PLANAR FACES
You may now add hatch to non-planar regions in Onshape Drawings.ENTERPRISE IMPROVEMENTS
ANALYTICS - COUNT OF PENDING RELEASES IN RELEASE ACTIVITY
The Release Activity dashboard now also shows Pending Releases, in addition to Approved, Rejected and Obsoleted.LEARNING CENTER IMPROVEMENTS
COURSE UPDATE - NAVIGATING ONSHAPE
Navigating Onshape has been updated to focus on the core features of the Onshape user interface, while including new interactive content. Learn how to navigate and organize your documents, and set key preferences to enhance your Onshape experience.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.5
Comments
Exporting from the list view seems like a useful option, unfortunate that you can't select multiple items at once (yet?) as that's the first thing I tried!
I can already here the complaints about not having the moment of inertial calculation in the new section measure (so close...)!
Found this in the changelog: "Allow reattaching failed centermarks in Drawings", definitely will be using this...
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Relinking broken centermarks is also great improvement, thanks for this one. Will be much easier to repair broken drawing after replacing model.
I've been waiting a long time for Expand/Collapse all on the assembly tree!
I'm always happy to see more keyboard shortcuts!
Rollback bar with the arrow keys is going to be very helpful
So will tangent plane creation
J'ai remarqué dans le "Changelog" qu'on peut désormais ré-attacher des marques de centre sur un dessin... Bravo!
Beau travail Onshape! 👍
Quality improvements team! Thanks! I especially like the shortcuts and roll bar update.
Tangent plane, awesome!
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Tangent Plane is great, and the Inspection Table improvements mean we can have the 2 or 3 layouts we need for First Article and routine inspection paperwork ready to roll. Inspection Items are now mature enough for us to properly implement.
Thanks Onshape!
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