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Improvements to Onshape - January 12th, 2024
cody_armstrong
Moderator, Onshape Employees, Developers, csevp Posts: 228 
It's the first update of 2024, and we are hitting the ground running. This update includes a number of highly-requested improvements, so we hope you enjoy! Let's dive in.
CAD IMPROVEMENTS
DECALS
You can now insert Decals into Part Studios. Decals are visible in Part Studios, assemblies, and shaded drawing views, and can be useful for inserting company logos or warning/hazard labels.OFFSET CURVE
Offset curve allows you to offset an edge as a curve on a face. This has a number of uses, as it makes it easy to create offset curves that are attached to a face.FILTER BRANCHES
You can now filter the version graph to only show branches with active workspaces. This makes it easier to filter out old information.DERIVED IMPROVEMENTS
Hide and show the individual entities inserted using a Derived feature. In the past, this was limited to hiding or showing the entire feature. This also includes custom features that import other features.VIEW-ONLY DISPLAY STATES
Display states can now be shared with View-only permissions. This makes it easier for non-CAD users to navigate a complex assembly.RELEASE VARIABLE STUDIO
It is now possible to release Variable studios. This allows Variable studios to go through your company's defined approval and release processes.PROFESSIONAL IMPROVEMENTS
REORDER CUSTOM PROPERTIES
Onshape Professional and Enterprise administrators can now reorder their custom properties. This can be useful when you want the most important properties higher in the list.CHANGE DATE FORMAT
It is now possible to change the date format for date type properties in your company settings.ENTERPRISE IMPROVEMENTS
SCHEDULE REPORTS
Enterprise administrators and Analytics administrators can now schedule reports for custom dashboards to run on a regular basis. The results will be emailed to the defined recipients with a frequency and in a format you choose.DRAWINGS IMPROVEMENTS
SECTION VIEW IMPROVEMENTS
You can now create a Section view (and Aligned section view) from a Detail view.DRAWING DEFINITION LIST EXPORT OPTION
When exporting an Inspection table, you can now export all dimensions to CSV with the new "Drawing definition list" export option.LEARNING CENTER IMPROVEMENTS
SELF-GUIDED ONSHAPE BOOTCAMP IN FRENCH, GERMAN, AND SIMPLIFIED CHINESE
Onshape's Self-Guided Bootcamp is now localized in French, German, and Simplified Chinese. The entire interface, closed captions, transcripts, and exercises are now all fully translated to ensure the best learning experience. The language selector is located in the bottom left while you are inside the Learning Center.ADVANCED PART DESIGN COURSE IMPROVEMENTS
A new video on Decals has been added to the Advanced Part Design Course. It instructs users on utilizing the new Decal feature within a Part Studio.UNDERSTANDING CURVES COURSE IMPROVEMENTS
A new video on Offset curve has been added to the Understanding Curves course. It instructs users on utilizing the powerful, new Offset curve feature.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.11
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Brilliant update. I'm so happy about the change in the default date.2
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Excellent round of updates.2
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Brb, putting Onshape decals on all my models 🎉7
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Decals, finally. YES!4
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Re ordering custom properties is huge.3
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Yay decals! Excellent.
And the derived improvements is another great one.
Thank you
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Starting off the year strong, this is an amazing update! Ty Onshape team!
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I think my fav in this list is treating Derives more like folders in the feature tree just because that was one of my first feature requests years ago, but really this whole update is great.4
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Wow, we are off to a fantastic start! Offset curve and show/hide capabilities for derived parts are some things my team have been waiting for. Nice work Onshape!0
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Tried to find decal and features for derived .....see screen shot .....no joy .....is there a trick for me to get this ?
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Section view from a Detail view.
I hope that the next update will arrive the section view from a broken view.2 -
found features for derived...on new derived part so that part works.0
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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.
ok will wait a while thank you for the heads up....if all else fails "read the instructions"1 -
Massive start to the year! great work team Adrian V. | Onshape Ambassador
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We are stoked on the Derived feature improvements. This will be so helpful for master sketch modeling.www.boafit.com4
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Yes please! Looking forward to decals and section views of detail view!1
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Really happy to see Decals, Offset Curve, Filter Branches, Derived Improvements, etc...
With Decals, a couple of quick observations (some of which are in the help for the feature):- You probably do not want to just use "face" as a reference for critical graphic placements. The center of a face is a pretty useless thing unless you never change the shape of the object. If you just chamfer the corner of a rectangle, the center (really the centroid) of the face will move. Thankfully there is a "realign" option which allows you to use a more stable reference for the center and the horizontal axis.
- Despite saying that you're picking a face, it will not work on arbitrary surfaces. It does work on cylinders, but not even on cones. The face doesn't need to belong to a solid, but it seems like it needs to be flat or cylindrical.
- You can use transparency in an image file to have just the graphic show up without a background.
- Decals are hidden and show with the body (solid or surface) that they belong to. If you wanted to place a decal on a surface which was curved in 3d, you could make a dummy surface which approximates that with a piece of a cylinder. By making that surface 100% transparent (the "a" slider in the appearance pane), and not showing edges, you could make a decal "float" and seem to be on a part which currently can't support a decal. Hopefully this will change at some point and it will be possible to add a decal to any shaped object.
For Offset curve, the help is a little more clear than the new training material on the difference between geodesic and euclidean. (Defining geodesic as geodesic is pretty poor practice for training). Geodesic is the shortest path along the surface (think airplane flight paths), Euclidean is the shortest straight line distance in 3D space, which might go through the object. For flat surfaces, there's no difference between these two options.Simon Gatrall | Product Development, Engineering, Design, Onshape | Ex- IDEO, PCH, Unagi, Carbon | LinkedIn
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Wow, lots of good stuff 1
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Nice improvements! Please don't forget some of the quality of life stuff like direct SVG imports, too! Having DXF only is just too limiting in 2024.0
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Holy crapadoodles this is insane! The decals 100% Noice!
Derive improvements, shared display states & Sections on details will certainly come in mighty handy!
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The offset curve on face is important to me, and also the derived improvements.Decals may seem small at first glance, but I missed them and will probably use them a lot, for they make sense in so many small ways. They should get a project or wrap option for all kind of surfaces, though. Thank you!-1
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Very exciting. So happy to see the decals feature. The split face and recolor faces was working but getting to be a very cumbersome process. Since we want our decals to still be parts, I just tested a simple workflow of extruding a simple sketch with the outside dimensions, and sticking the decal to it. Seems to work great!
Also very stoked about reordering the property fields.1 -
Great updates. Thank you0
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Lots of good stuff in this one again!
It looks like the decal feature is a really good start and will be very handy as-is but it does need to be expanded to conform to "arbitrary" surfaces as well as span multiple faces (with projection options), although I just noticed I managed to get some interesting results by splitting/moving a face after creating a decal!
I think controlling the visibility of individual elements of a derive is my second favorite here!5 -
Amazing update! I like the decals a lot!Thank you Team Onshape for all your hard work1
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Could you explain me what's the purpose of decals? I can see them in parts and in assembly, but not in drawings or STL. I would like to place images on my desings so that I could use them directly in laser engravings or CNC.
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Hmmm. Somehow I assumed that decals showed up in drawings. Without that they aren't very useful for many applications.Edit. Decals DO show up in drawings, but the view has to be a shaded view. As far as I can tell it's not possible to dimension the location of the decal.I've added another improvement request: https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/22837/enable-decals-in-drawings-including-support-for-dimensioning-location/p1?new=1
Simon Gatrall | Product Development, Engineering, Design, Onshape | Ex- IDEO, PCH, Unagi, Carbon | LinkedIn
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@jari_laaksonen The STL format doesn't support any sort of texturing. When you export something as STL any texturing or color is lost.jari_laaksonen said:Could you explain me what's the purpose of decals? I can see them in parts and in assembly, but not in drawings or STL. I would like to place images on my desings so that I could use them directly in laser engravings or CNC.0
