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Re: Color text or layer properties in drawings?
@kai_yang We have a planned improvement to handle applying different styles to collections of annotations in a drawing that would move them off of the drawing defaults as defined in the properties panel. The properties panel was always designed with the intention to handle drawing global defaults, and is not the intention… -
Re: Philadelphia Onshape User Group meeting tomorrow - Surfacing
I have learned new skills and productivity tips at every OS user group meeting that I have attended, and this one certainly did not disappoint. Thanks Vince! Your expert insight into surface modeling was incredibly helpful for me. Using Delete-Face and Enclose to dance back and forth between solids and surfaces was… -
Re: Finding FeatureScript documentation resources?
Hi Ken! Thanks for the feedback, I'll look into making the axis documentation a little better. The ALLOW_AXIS query filter is somewhat strange; theoretically we want to end up with a mathematical representation of some axis to pattern around, but because this is a feature (rather than an operation) we want to let a user… -
Re: Configurations lost when I save a version?
Hi @eric_schimelpfenig A version is a snapshot of the state of the document at a particular time, it also allows you to reference that document from a different document. That snapshot includes the entire set of configurations of the model, it does not lock the configuration to the current configuration. This is very… -
Re: Get rid of an AutoCAD VBA program by using Onshape
@EricGauthier I think this could be easily achieved in FeatureScript. Mapping your steps to things a Custom Feature could do: 1) enter the material and thickness as parameters to the feature, store it previously in a variable, or in some other way provide it to the feature 2) program the hard coded list into the custom… -
Re: Why do some connected extrusions become separate parts?
@michael3424, OS methodology differs a little from other CAD. Case in point, if you delete a parent feature in OS, child features are not automatically deleted (like in SW). OS leaves them there for you to fix. I personally appreciate this a lot. For that same reason, a union that doesn't break when not actually joining… -
Re: Pattern of holes through a cone?
Hi Donovan, There were a couple problems with your fill pattern. First, the edge specified for 'direction' was confusing the feature. I drew a new edge that is just flat along the XY plane and used that for the pattern direction. Secondly, the 'distance' variable is the distance between the centers of the pattern… -
Re: opBoolean fails with invalid input
Hi @brad_phelan , qBodyType doesn't do what you're expecting it to do. qBodyType(query, BodyType.SOLID) will query for all entities of 'query' that are either a) solid bodies or b) belong to solid bodies. So, as long as your selected face belonged to a solid body it would bass the body type test. I think the query you're… -
Re: Suggestions for workflows with manufacturers?
SW handled units pretty well. They use consistent base units (forget which ones?) you use for programming. Everything the user sees is a conversion of the base units. I'm sure OS does the same. My preference is fractional mm. I would be leery of trying to make a ERP. I, however, never want to use an ERP system, and would… -
Re: Tip: Name Your Parent Model Differently
That seems like good practice for sure, it's easy at first to just change the name of the part studio but that doesn't really help when it comes to inserting something in an assembly! We often use "master" in the name for parts that are going to be derived into something else as the most common scenario for us seems to be…
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