Automate, customize, and extend Onshape’s powerful modeling tools.
Speed up existing design processes and reduce manual work by building automation and tools specific to your company’s products and workflow.
Open up new design possibilities that simply aren’t possible with traditional modeling tools.
Go beyond Onshape’s core capabilities with powerful custom features built by partners, community members, and PTC developers.
All you need to do to get started is to follow these 2 steps.
While in a Part Studio, click “+ Add custom features”, search for and select the features you want to use.
Use the custom feature from the toolbar, just like any built-in feature.
Anyone! Custom features are easy to create, share, and maintain. These powerful tools benefit individuals looking to automate tasks or add unique functionalities, as well as companies seeking to build their own proprietary custom feature library.
Boost your productivity and start using custom features by adding the ones you want to use to your toolbar without having to code anything.
Customize and automate tasks for your team with custom features tailored to your company's needs to speed up your specialized design processes.
Build and privately share custom features within your company. Updates are easily deployed and custom features remain stable because they link to their original version of the Onshape feature library, ensuring compatibility with Onshape’s continuous updates.
Get started and discover the possibilities by exploring these FeatureScript samples.
This set of custom features provide a process-driven cable and wiring suite that takes a CSV file input from a 2D electrical schematic package, manages the routing of the cables/wires and produces wire length tables.
This set of custom features creates core and cavity geometry for injection molding and die cast tooling.
This custom feature creates a standard airfoil profile using two splines for the lower and upper surfaces. Tangency at the leading edge is guaranteed.
This custom feature removes material specified by sketch regions to make parts lighter. The sketch regions are extruded, offset, and fileted based on the desired remaining wall thickness and the radius of the cutting tool.
This custom feature creates a snap hook - a common fastening feature in plastic part design.
This custom feature creates a hardware boss. Three different types of bosses are possible: Hardware (a screw boss with a pocket for the screw head and a through hole for the threads), Hole (a plain boss with a hole in the top), and Pin (a boss with a pin protuding from the top).
This custom feature allows you to create a spline in three dimensions by defining their vertexes with reference points or dimensions in the global coordinate system.
This custom feature automatically performs a basic nesting of planar parts onto cut sheets of specified dimensions, maintaining at least the specified spacing between parts.
Creates mathematically accurate screw threads. Supports standard, acme, square profiles as well as multi-start screws.
This custom feature creates SAE J1926 straight thread ports.
This custom feature patterns geometry within a target face while avoiding exterior boundaries and other specified keepout areas.
This custom feature simulates a ray of light reflecting off objects and refracting through them.
This custom feature creates mathematically correct spur gears with optional center bore hole and keyway.
Creates a surface driven by an equation of the form z = f(x,y) or z = f(r, th).
This feature allows you to add a custom 3D curve described by parametric equations in Cartesian, cylindrical, or spherical coordinates.
This custom feature creates an SAE Standard Straight Spline on the end of shafts.
Watch video tutorials to get started writing custom features in Feature Studio, an integrated development environment (IDE) built right into Onshape, complete with a powerful editor, in-line help, and documentation.
Get code examples and learn FeatureScript, a programing language similar to C++ or Javascript.
The source code for Onshape’s Feature Library, which provides native features like Extrude, Fillet, etc, is open-source and freely viewable to make it easier for you to copy, customize, and create your own features.
Read up on our Tech Tips to learn what is possible with custom features.
Explore the FeatureScript community forum where you can engage with experts and ask any questions you have.
FeatureScript is a programming language developed by Onshape specifically for creating custom features and tools within the Onshape CAD platform.
With FeatureScript, you can create custom parametric features, automate repetitive tasks, develop specialized tools, and extend the functionality of Onshape to suit your specific needs.
No. To use an existing custom feature, just add it to your toolbar and use it like any other feature. If you want to create your own features, then a basic knowledge of programming techniques will help you to learn FeatureScript faster. Onshape provides comprehensive documentation and tutorials to help you get started.
FeatureScript is a proprietary language developed by Onshape, it is based on JavaScript but has its own syntax and conventions.
Yes. You can share your custom features publicly or privately within your company or enterprise environment.
Public sharing: Publish your public custom feature to make it searchable to all Onshape users. Sharing your creations allows other users to benefit from your innovations and can contribute to the growth of the Onshape community.
Private sharing: Custom features are contained within Onshape Documents and can be shared just as you would share a part. To share it to all users of your company, share it to the team called All company users.
Unlike macros, Custom Features in Onshape are fully integrated into the parametric modeling environment, allowing for seamless interoperability with native features.
Here are some ways in which custom features are better than legacy CAD macros:
Onshape provides support resources, including documentation, tutorials, training courses, and community forums. If you encounter difficulties or have questions while using FeatureScript, reaching out to the Onshape community via the forum is recommended.
Get started with Onshape and FreatureScript today.