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Discussion List

  • Frame Tooling 2.0

    So I started to create a product with the frame tool with the intention of creating a series of similar products. However once I started getting into PLM (OpenBOM) in this case. I realized that designing in this way would not be scalable. Since only the composite part is inserted into the assembly OpenBOM would only import…

  • Trying to use openbom, but just get blank page.

    I am using openbom on chrome to get a cutlist of my design. But I get the openbom app page, but no parts show up. If I open the developers shell in chrome, I see the following errors, and maybe they are related. share.js:2246 Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'insertBefore' of null .... DevTools failed to parse…

  • OpenBom Problem

    I have been using OpenBom successfully however now if I try and create an new BOM or access an old on in Onshape I get the message - Error importing document for user simon@displaytechnologies.co.uk message: null Any Ideas?

  • How can I extract the belt properties ( total length / width / thickness) from the belt feature

    Hi I created a belt trough the "belt" feature . Can I get some properties from the belt I created and retrieve it in BOM or drawing ? I need essentially the total length (the width is given by openBOM) . Thanks for the great job done by the Onshape team.

  • BOM of vendor parts like ball bearings

    I don't know whether this is a question for OpenBOM or OnShape but here's my problem. When I create a parts list BOM, every ball in the bearing is treated as a separate part. This is nonsense. A ball bearing is just one part no matter how many internal parts there are. How can I force OnShape and Open BOM to treat vendor…