We're more than halfway through September and are due for another Onshape release. Let's take a look at some new features.
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.
General Improvements
Derived Preserves Active Sheet Metal Models
The Derived tool includes a new option to Preserve active sheet metal models. Selecting this option maintains the bend table and flat pattern for the derived component, so you may continue to edit the component as a native sheet metal part.
Indication of Under-Constrained Sketches
Any under-constrained sketches in your Part Studios are now indicated in the Feature list with an icon and a tooltip.
Repair Manager - Support for Configuration Changes
The Repair manager now maintains consistency between the Part Studio and the Repair manager panel, even when changing configurations.
Named Positions - Mate Feature Cross-Highlight
When working with a Named position table, hovering over a mate now cross-highlights the mate feature in the Features list and shows the mate on the model in the graphics area.
User-Defined Override Fit Class Tolerance (Drawings)
You may now fully customize and manually override a Fit class tolerance dimension on a drawing. From the Tolerance display, select the Override precision/tolerance checkbox, and then select User defined.
Drawing Style Panel - Sketched Objects
The Drawing Style panel now supports sketched objects, such as lines, circles, rectangles, and splines.
Enterprise Improvements
Structure View
A new Structure view option is now available from the Documents page.
Structure view shows the latest released components, with all contained references indented below. The top-level node shown in Structure view will always reside in the selected folder you have navigated to, but the references below are shown exactly as they are in the structure of the design, even if they reside in separate documents and in other folders. Structure view is a new way to quickly understand a full reference tree, properties, and revision history for your complete product.
NOTE: Structure view is available today for companies using Onshape Enterprise. However, we expect to add it for companies using Professional licenses in a future release.
Analytics - Filter by Document in Release Audit
The Release Audit report now includes a filter for Document, allowing you to quickly look at all releases contained in just one or more documents of your choosing.
Analytics - Dark Mode
Enterprise Analytics now maintains consistency with Onshape dark mode.
Render Studio Improvements
Transform Element
It is now possible to Transform all element types in Render Studio scenes with the exception of faces. Rotation and scaling transforms now take place around an origin point automatically placed at the center of all of the selected elements.
Hidden and Suppressed Improvements
Performance improvements have been implemented in this release to make hiding and showing parts in a Render Studio faster than before.
Additionally, components can now be suppressed or unsuppressed in a Render Studio. Unlike hiding a component (which is a per-user/session action), suppressing or unsuppressing an element persists across sessions. See the Help Documentation for more details.
Duplicate Appearance
You may now easily duplicate an appearance from the Appearances list’s right-click context menu. This is extremely useful for any appearances you have heavily customized. You can duplicate the appearance to make a variation, without having to recreate it from scratch.
Performance - Applying Appearances
Changes have been made to how part, assembly, and subassembly appearance data is handled. You will find improved performance when assigning appearances to a large number of elements at once. This change also help with loading times in Render Studios with a large number of parts and appearances.
Dark Mode for Render Studios
Dark mode support has been extended to include Render Studio.
FeatureScript Improvements
Custom Tables on Drawings
FeatureScript custom tables can now be placed directly in Onshape Drawings.
Filter FeatureScript Notices
It is now possible to search and filter notices directly in the FeatureScript notices panel.
Text Reference Parameter
You may now import a .TXT file as a string to be used as a reference parameter in your custom features.
Learning Center Improvements
Intro to Part Studios Course
In our ongoing effort to improve the material offered in the Learning Center, we have added the Introduction to Part Studios course. This will be a complete replacement for the previous Part Modeling in Part Studios course. It has a completely new layout including new videos and exercises.
Please take a moment to try out these new features and improvements and leave your comments in the Onshape Forums post. For a detailed list of all the changes in this update, please see the changelog.
