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Improvements to Onshape - February 23rd, 2024

February may be the shortest month of the year, but we're happy to ship to you a second Onshape release this month! Let's take a look at some new features. PART STUDIOS BODY DRAFT A new feature - Body draft - has been added. Body draft allows you to add draft to one or more entire parts all in one feature, based on… -
Improvements to Onshape - January 5th, 2021

On behalf of everyone here at Onshape, I would like to wish you all a happy and successful New Year! This is the first of many updates for 2021 – if you have great ideas for new features or functionality that would benefit the entire Onshape community, please create Improvement Requests in the category on the right.… -
Improvements to Onshape - December 15th, 2021

It's the last update of the year and we've saved the biggest and best for last. We've listened to you, and put a strong focus on the basics - core modeling and drawing productivity. So not only are there a huge number of improvements, but they apply to everyone. We hope you find not just one, but many things that make your… -
Improvements to Onshape - February 27th, 2023

In spite of February being the shortest month of the year, we're excited to bring you a second release this month! We hope you enjoy some of these drawing and usability improvements. As a reminder, Onshape Live, our annual virtual user conference, is THIS WEEK! Join us March 1st (Americas) or March 2nd (Europe) to catch… -
Re: How does identity work?
The primary thing that Onshape will use to identify a selected entity is the "id" passed into the operation that creates it. You can read a more detailed explanation in a past comment here. To sum it up briefly: When you select an entity, Onshape generates a query for that entity. That query might look like "the face… -
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. GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS DISSOLVE REPLICATE GROUP You may now easily dissolve the grouping created from a Replicate feature in an Onshape… -
Improvements to Onshape - February 18th, 2022

With this update you can expect many updates in the area of drawings as well as another highlight: FRAMES! Let's have a look! GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS FRAMES Structural frames are useful for many designs across multiple industries and they can now be easily created natively in Onshape, using the Frame feature. A library of… -
Improvements to Onshape - January 12th, 2022

On behalf of everyone at PTC, I'd like to wish our users everywhere a Happy and Prosperous New Year! Do you think we had time to rest over the holiday period? Not at all. We're keeping the ball rolling with this latest update... GENERAL IMPROVEMENTS SEARCH/FILTER/NAVIGATE DOCUMENT HISTORY Documents with a long history of…
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