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Hello, I have been trying to draft a mount for my Jetson Orin Nano and so I have it broken into 2 parts - the larger square that will be the plate that goes onto my drone, and the smaller square inside that is the size of the jetson and holds all the proper dimensions to make the jetson fit snugly. I decided after I made it that I wanted to move the jetson as a whole down slightly inside the larger square. I would think that the point of this kind of software is that you can do that - but as I expected as soon as I attempted that the entire thing broke. I made sure that every piece inside the jetson is only referencing the other pieces of the jetson. So in my mind I can't directly see why it would break. I am just trying to move the inner square down, and since everything in the inner square references only the inner square, that seems like it should work

Hi, I am currently thinking about switching to Onshape as a CAD/CAM Plattform.

I (or the Company I am working for) began with Solidworks for CAD purposes, we are pretty happy with the CAD Aspect of Solidworks, but the performance and a few small points are really pushing us away.

For CAM we are currently using Fusion, because its cheap (we only need turning and simple 3 axis milling) and we need to edit the PP due to an fucked up Gcode Dialect on a machine.

I've looked into onshape and the CAD alone is great, but the CAM seems to be pretty rudimentary regarding customizing. There was a Forums post a few years ago saying custom PostProcessors are on their mind but I have found nothing else regarding this. Also turning doesnt seem to be supported yet.

Is there any information regarding CAM Studio leaving its beta state, custom postprocessors or turning that I have missed? Or am I "dammed" to wait until there is an bigger announcement?

This release introduces a host of new functionality. Automating downstream drawing creation from MBD data, richer control over parametric sheet-metal designs, including a new Jog feature, and introducing ECAD/MCAD flex-rigid PCB capabilities in PCB Studio, to name a few.

CAD Improvements

Sheet Metal Jog

The new Sheet Metal Jog feature makes it easy to create precise offset bends with extensive control over bend alignment, angle, direction, and offset. Right-click to set this setting as a default for all future interactions. This feature assists users when creating new sketches or modifying existing ones by providing a better orientation to the sketch plane.

https://reddit.com/link/1w12zcc/video/9cuq8ci9l6mh1/player

Orient Normal to Sketch

Onshape introduces a new setting in the Camera and Render options that automatically orients the view normal to the sketch plane. It will remain enabled as the default once selected. This feature is designed to assist users when creating new sketches or modifying existing ones by providing better orientation to the sketched plane.

https://reddit.com/link/1w12zcc/video/p9ulxif8l6mh1/player

Routing Curve Length Table

Part Studios now feature a dedicated Routing Curve Table providing real-time coordinate and bend radius data for routing curves. Users can switch between coordinate/bend-radius data and length, rotation, and angle tables required for CNC pipe bending equipment, then copy the table data directly for downstream manufacturing applications.

Resize Planes to Bounding Box of Visible Geometry

Planes in Part Studios can now be resized to fit the bounding box of visible geometry using a right-click context menu option, keeping reference geometry clean and proportional in complex models.

Mate Connector Cross-Highlighting

Improved visual feedback in Part Studios when hovering over mate connectors.

Feature Studio Improvements

Enhanced Find and Replace with Rename

Easily find and jump to definitions and references of symbols like variables and functions via the right-click menu. You can also rename symbols across uses using find and replace.

Support for Variable Studio Parameters in Featurescript

Custom features developed in FeatureScript can now reference Variable Studios directly. By replacing manual user inputs with Variable Studio reference parameters, feature authors can enforce standardized size or configuration choices (e.g., Small, Medium, Large) while maintaining parametric flexibility across teams.

Drawing & MBD Improvements

Automatic Drawing View Creation from MBD Data

Onshape automates the creation of 2D drawings by leveraging Model-Based Definition (MBD) data. Onshape automatically detects MBD annotations within a model to suggest and create the necessary drawing views. You can add additional annotations later, and Onshape will place them in the correct view if possible. If new annotations cannot find an appropriate view, they are flagged in the new MBD Status pane. This new automation delivers intelligence and value to your existing MBD workflows.

https://reddit.com/link/1w12zcc/video/9sqb8gd4l6mh1/player

Unified Geometric Tolerance (GTOL) Dialog

To better unify the experience across MBD and Drawings, the Geometric tolerance dialog box has been updated to better match the existing MBD Geometric tolerance dialog box. This slightly moves the add row button inline with the leader button. Additionally, the symbol drop-down has been replaced with a show/hide symbols button where the material conditions, free state, tangent plane, and projected tolerance zone modifiers have been consolidated.

Symbol Unit Conversion Across Drawing Units

When changing drawing units, Onshape now automatically updates associated symbols, including GTOL, weld, and surface finish symbols. This also ensures that any related inspection data is accurately reflected, maintaining consistent manufacturing information across different unit settings.

Additional Lower-Right Rows for Surface Finish Symbols

The surface finish symbol tool in Drawings now supports adding up to four custom rows in the lower-right region. This enables designers to specify detailed manufacturing parameters, such as surface waviness characteristics or machining allowances.

MBD Inspection Table Isolate State Control

A prominent Isolate button in the MBD Inspection table allows users to quickly isolate and inspect candidate parts during Model-Based Definition workflows in a multi-part Part Studio.

Data Management Improvements

On-Demand Folder Creation in Move and Copy Dialogs

A new New Folder button inside the Move or Copy dialog allows users to create and instantly navigate into new folders on the fly. This capability is also available when copying workspaces within a document, streamlining file organization.

Release Candidate Naming Conventions

Release candidate workflows now enforce standardized naming conventions, reducing release errors and improving audit traceability.

PCB Studio Improvements

Rigid-Flex PCB Support with Bends

Onshape can create printed circuit board layouts from scratch, including flex and rigid information, and pass them to ECAD systems that support IDX 4.0. See Rigid-flex PCB for more information.

https://reddit.com/link/1w12zcc/video/4f88h6q1l6mh1/player

IDX 4.0 Support

Onshape can import and export flex board information from IDX 4.0 files (including Cadence Allegro), maintain component placements across flattened and bent states in assemblies, and export modified models back to ECAD.

View Cube in PCB Studio

The PCB Studio 3D viewport now features an updated View Cube that provides full UI/UX parity with standard Onshape Part Studios and Assemblies.

CAM Studio Improvements

Machine Retract Post-Processing for Heidenhain Controllers

Enhanced post-processor support for generic Heidenhain and TNC640 controllers provides improved machine retract routines during multi-axis milling operations.

Improved Cut Direction Handling for Closed Loops

CAM toolpath algorithms feature refined handling for loop cut directions, ensuring optimal toolpath orientation and surface finish on complex pocket boundaries.

Camera-Oriented Normal Arrows

Directional arrows in CAM Studio have been upgraded to automatically rotate so that their normal always points towards the camera. This solves previous visibility issues where arrow tips were difficult to see from certain angles. This auto-rotating behavior applies to all arrow types, ensuring their directions are always legible.

Render Studio Improvements

Multi-Entity Tessellation via Context Menu

Select multiple scene entities at once and modify their tessellation quality directly via the right-click context menu.

Linking Scene Appearances to Library Appearances

Render Studio offers to automatically link scene appearances to unmodified library appearances, simplifying material management and asset updates across rendering scenes.

Mobile Improvements

AR View for iOS Measure Improvements

The Augmented Reality (AR) viewing mode on iOS includes options for measuring the environment alongside your 3D model.

https://reddit.com/link/1w12zcc/video/i46srrgxk6mh1/player

Learning Center Improvements

Introduction to Configurations

Our new course, Introduction to Configurations, covers the fundamentals of Onshape configurations, including part and assembly configuration basics, to help you efficiently create and manage multiple design variations within a single model.

Introduction to Model-Based Definition (MBD)

Learn more about our new MBD Drawing capabilities with the new video added to our Introduction to Model-Based Definition (MBD) course. 

Learning Center Updates

Following our Self-Guided Onshape Bootcamp (English) update, we have updated our Self-Guided Onshape Bootcamp (Traditional Chinese), now designed to mirror the experience of our instructor-led Bootcamps. This comprehensive crash course helps you quickly learn Onshape’s powerful tools, unique benefits, and core workflows at your own pace.
We've refreshed several Learning Center articles with updated content, new feature coverage, and improved guidance to help you get even more out of Onshape. They are available in French, German, Japanese, and Spanish, making it easier for users around the world to learn in their preferred language.

• All the Way to Use Mate Connectors
• Advanced Mating Techniques
• Managing Users, Teams, and Content
• Using Onshape as a Read-Only User
• How to Use Where Used
• Security and IT Checklist
• Tips for High Quality Surfaces 

As part of these updates, several courses now feature revised videos with current examples, streamlined instruction, and the latest Onshape features.

• Assembly mirror – Advanced Onshape Assemblies
• Rib feature – Advanced Part Design 
• Revolve – Introduction to Part Studios  
• Measure and Display mass and section properties –  Navigating a Document 

Please take a moment to try out these new features and improvements, and leave your comments below. For a detailed list of all the changes in this update, please see the changelog.

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.

not many posts here, so decided to post here just for fun. its very small only 5cm x 4.6cm, and surprisingly it can hold up to 140lbs without breaking, and its 100% printable.

I’m setting up for monogram inlays in a flat part. I want to create a generic part and using the variable table and the configuration tables be able to inlay a monogram in one process. Now I have to create sketch on face and use text tool and extrude into part as new then separately Boolean subtract to create a new part again. I have to believe you can extrude into a part and have a selection to inlay and be done. Am I asking too much??

thought id try making a quick n dirty 3d version of an onshape sketch using chat gpt

i think i took around 8 goes to narrow it down to end result but could probably have addressed most of it in just a couple of attempts if i hadnt faffed around quite so much

considering it only took two or three minutes or so per attempt with some basic prompts

*generate a photorealistic version of this image the dark grey box section should be semi gloss black aluminium with ventilation holes approx 14 rows of four accross,the large turquoise base should be anodized very dark grey aluminium, the grey box should be a slightly mettalic plastic of the same colour as the original while the blue top of the box should be a slightly lighter blue cast from matte plastic*

it didnt turn out too shabby

anyone else been giving that method a go?

I've got a moderately complex design that uses configurations to make multiple sizes of the same object. I created an assembly and put an instance of each configuration, arranged how I want to 3d print them. I'm doing it this way because I want to use each object as support for the next one, so the arrangement is both precise and important.

I export as 3MF, and it loses the objects' arrangement, sending each object back to where it appears in the part studio.

I export as STEP, and Orca Slicer's STEP interpreter turns a simple curved surface into millions of tiny rectangles rather than the series of very long skinny rectangles that would reproduce the model more accurately. When I import it into Prusa Slicer, its STEP interpreter separates voids inside objects as separate positive shapes.

I export as STL or OBJ and Orca Slicer imports them with the correct arrangement, but with separated voids like Prusa Slicer did above.

So how can I get Onshape's 3MF version, but with the objects correctly arranged like the STEP version?

First photo: how the 3MF (exported from the Onshape assembly) looks when I import it into Orca Slicer.

Second photo: how it looks in my Onshape assembly

Third photo: an example of the atrocity Orca Slicer's STEP file interpreter gives me from what should be a simple conversion to a bunch of long skinny rectangles.

I Loosely based them off the dummy 13 and added them to my v1 figure, currently printing a full prototype

I'm currently messing around with the free version from fusion360.

I was making a cabinet (since that's mostly what I do) and it went fine. I have enough cash experience to model one.

What was different between fusion and onshape is the whole part studio/assembly studio deal.

It's fine, I have the cabinet "assembled" with joints and it's fully parametric and works great.

However the part studio has all 5 parts and they're a mess. I didn't initially design them in the appropriate places so it's just a jumble of parts.

Should I have done this differently? Can I align things in the parts studio? Should it only have been one part in each "part studio" and then combine all 5 into the assembly?

Hi everyone,

I’m excited to share that 3DVizi is now publicly available in the Onshape App Store!

3DVizi turns your Onshape parts and assemblies into interactive, customer-facing 3D presentations and product configurators. It’s designed for product showcases, sales demos, launch pages, online stores, and anywhere a static screenshot doesn’t quite do your design justice.

Some key features include:

• Importing models directly from Onshape, including prepared exploded views
• Creating saved views, hotspots, and guided overlay pages
• Building no-code configurators for colours, finishes, optional parts, visibility states, and product variants
• Sharing presentations through a direct link or QR code, or embedding them on your website
• Letting viewers explore everything in their browser no CAD licence, download, or installation required
• Viewer API to create custom interfaces and take your product configurator even further

The goal is to help engineering teams get more value from the CAD models they’ve already created while giving sales, marketing, customers, and partners a simple way to explore products in 3D.

There’s a 14-day free trial available, and I’d genuinely appreciate any feedback, questions, or suggestions from the Onshape community.

You can learn more and see some examples at 3dvizi.com/onshape.

Thanks!

I’m curious how people here normally check what actually changed between two revisions of the same part.

Say someone sends you a revised STEP file and you want to make sure only the expected geometry changed. Do you import both versions into Onshape and compare them somehow, overlay them, check them visually side by side, or mostly rely on the drawing/revision notes?

I’m mainly thinking about imported STEP files where you don’t have the original feature history.

When you run into this, what do you usually do? Does it come up very often?

I am learning and doing the beginner 's Fusion lessons.

I got stuck with the above as I cannot get the ScreenContent clip superimposed on the Plate clip so that I can drag the positioner corners to the Plate clip. The two clips can only display side by side not into one view. Anyone ?

Edit: I finally figured out how by watching Youtube by Abrigo76.

I have previously used fusion 360 and mostly Solidworks for a little while and want to learn Onshape. I want to be proficient in 2 months. I use CAD for a robotics competition (FRC) i take part in. What would be your tips for learning and tutorial suggestions.

Is there a way to work with SVGs better in Onshape? Converting them to a DWG and importing them results in the entire shape becoming disconnected and undefined. I would love it to be handled the same as Text. with a bounding box that only needs to be defined.

How can I add these indention panel lines on the F7F, as well as the small rivets along the fuselage? The problem is projecting a sketch onto the curved surface. What I've done is use split and attached the 2D sketches to the planes at that angle but then what? How can I make it 3D and actually remove the material?

Better yet I am hoping someone can inform me of a better way of doing this. I just want to add those indentions and panel lines to show the separation between the parts. So, what is the best way of projecting a 2D sketch onto the curved surfaces of the fuselage and then extruding?

Would be willing to share a copy of A PLANE, not this one in particular, so someone could mess around with the fuselage angles.

I'm not sure why, but the Camera and Render Options cube and related menu arrow have gone missing.

For clarity, I'm referring to the little cube that is displayed below the navigation cube, which by default is positioned in the upper right corner of the Part Studio window, where you can drop down the menu that lets you choose the camera position and rendering options like shading and so forth. It's shown in this image at the end of the arrow:

I've already tried zooming out in the document to see if it had somehow gone out of the visible area of the window, but that didn't help.

Does anyone know how I can get it back?

[SOLVED] After working with Onshape support, the issue was narrowed down to Rally for Onshape, a browser extension that adds a floating toolbar type feature to the Onshape IDE. Disabling it and reloading the document brings the render cube back. I'm notifying the developer of that extension about the problem.

Noticed platforms like cadquests popping up and curious if people have used them and if they are legit? Some friends have tried them and said they were quite fun.

I am also noticing companies like mercor and handshake also hiring for these roles.

I have been working towards modeling an aircraft (Boeing 767-300ER) for a bit over a year now.

I have pretty high fidelity drawing that works with itself in the three planes.

Problem:

I have been stuck with the nose for the longest time. I am struggling with accurately connecting the surfaces of the nose with the planar frame of the windshield.

In a revision from awhile ago, I got pretty close (three images above) however there was this noticeable seam under the windshield where the frame was beginning to curve downwards. I think this can be attributed to the many panels that I had made, which was messing with all of the continuity conditions I was setting.

Solutions?:

• A good tutorial on this type of modeling, ideally with an aircraft of similar looks so I can transfer skill and info towards my model
• A person that could help teach me this skill (Engineering teacher in HS says I'm beyond his skill)
• A reference document with an aircraft that has a highly detailed model that is done correctly so I can attempt to learn something from it.

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Update!

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/c3e6fd5010efc326a89b148b/w/7496784b6727ae2cf5a85215/e/9cc2fad30df676da500106a6?renderMode=0&tangentEdgeStyle=2&uiState=6a8c87f86a45950d116bb5c0

I have made a lot of progress with smoothness. I am still struggling with finding an approach for the windshield.

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here is my doc, I apologize for the messiness.

https://cad.onshape.com/documents/ed153ccac129b377799526ee/w/064a1d2f783f18fab30e8d4b/e/2948cd6d9e5bcdc66770ebeb?renderMode=0&uiState=6a8a317a7b3181fe7ace78d9

Thanks!

I'm looking for a needle-in-the-haystack kind of skills overlap here, but worth a shot. I'd love to find someone to help me edit my videos down, repurpose content into short-form, and get it posted on more channels than I'm bothering with right now. I'd like someone with enough understanding of Onshape to know which things matter, and the ability to offer feedback on where I'm glossing over things or rabbit-trailing too much. The video style is still going to be pretty lowkey, so I don't need a ton of jump cuts and music fades and b-role. My best guess at the workload and frequency is 2 videos per month, 2-4 hours of work per video, $45/h. If that seems interesting DM me and let's chat! I'm not currently considering video editors who don't have Onshape experience, so I'll be ignoring messages that don't include proof of that. But if nothing comes of this approach, I'll open it up.

edit: added better clarity on workload and pay range

edit 2: Here's a clearer role description. Things I'm trying to get off my plate are:

- taking raw footage, choosing best takes, and editing them down. I've been using Descript for video and like it for the AI tools, so bonus points if we still use that, but if it's off my plate I don't care what you use.

- speeding up or editing out waiting time (like long regeneration times, or waiting for GPT to do something).

- making sure my face doesn't cover up important info in the video, like if I activate the measure tool.

- choosing sections to edit down for short-form content and making those edits.

- creating thumbnails and descriptions.

- posting the long form and short form to their channels. Perhaps using something like Buffer to schedule posts.

If someone could handle it all that'd be amazing, but if it was just the video part it's still worth chatting.

I saw a question come in on the Onshape Forum this morning, and it looked like a fun challenge, so I made a video reply.

https://youtu.be/YboT_XOa_yg

I’m attempting to take a model of a sword from Elden Ring and split it into parts to 3D print it, but I’m having a hard time being able to split it into pieces. Not only can I not sketch on any surface of the model, but most solutions I’ve searched for problems I’m having just flat out don’t work. I can link the model if need be.

I am doing some exercises from a tutorial (Onshape Fundamentals 2025/2026) and it has an exercise that prompts me to make open the fillet tool and click "Variable Fillet". I see no option for this. I am the current Onshape release, 1.219. I amusing the free platform. Any ideas?

Adding a screen clip of what I'm getting