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Re: Render Battle #7 - Halloween 2025 🎃 (Open Division: any render platform! 📸)
I printed the first prototype of "Shapey". :) Maybe we could do an end of the year "Shapeys" User Group. We could have the forum vote on Feature Script of the year, Forum Contributor of the year; Forum helper of the year, Forum Render of the year, etc :)
Re: Render Battle #7 - Halloween 2025 🎃 (Open Division: any render platform! 📸)
Movies have the Oscars……Onshape Render Battle could have the Shapeys
Re: Too small variable field
While we are just dreaming - wouldn't it be nice if the box would just auto-resize as you typed.
Stop making me click "Log in" every day
My feature request is in the title.
There's been a number of feature requests asking Onshape to preserve sign-in status rather than making users fill their credentials and click "Log in" every day:
- https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/8916/every-time-i-visit-the-onshape-website-i-need-to-log-in-again-is-there-a-remember-me-option
- https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/7784/stay-signed-in
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Onshape/comments/1ge0s63/why_does_onshape_log_users_out_so_aggressively/
- https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/13653/login-and-refresh-repeats-are-excessive-can-you-double-the-time-to-stay-in-loged-and-refreshed
It's clearly a pain point. What is the business decision behind logging users out so often? This is User Retention 101, if you want users to stick around, why log them out? Can you point out any other core workflow tools which do sign-outs as aggressively as Onshape?
Assuming most of your users are on the Free Plan, their designs are open-source, the argument for aggressively signing people out "for security" is moot.
Please stop making me click "Log in". I love your product, but this is silly.
CC @john_rousseau who seems to be behind this decision.
Re: New Onshape API Limits
from commercial point its clear why the limits exist, but would be nice to have some official client libraries for api interaction which would ensure best practices and ensure low server workload by caching or something. Current API testing and exploration process given how undocumented some of the endpoints are could consume pretty good amount of those limits.
Konst_Sh
Re: Use sketch and model dimensions in 2D drawing
https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/comment/10623#Comment_10623
In near future we hope that this facility will be provided by Onshape.
viru
Re: Improvements to Onshape - September 19th, 2025
Folders and nested folders may not work for you, that's fine. Tags do exist in Onshape by the way. Nested tags would be cool.
BUT we find folders essential. Don't step on one user to satisfy another. Nobody said you needed to use folders.
Thank you
