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Kudos OS. Some vary nice updates today, especially flatten. I like the spread sheet connectivity as well and hope it propagates into other areas as well.☺️

The flatten surfaces and the sketch profile inspector will be exciting to try out. Great updates.

great new additions, especially the sketch improvements!

So many goodies! Pause regeneration is particularly exciting! Flatten has also come up for me a decent amount and this will be super helpful so I don't have to leave Onshape to get it.

Ok. Flatten is one of the best new things that was just added for free to Onshape!

Here's a flattened version of a part where I had simulated fabric wrapping some molded foam for a headband of a product. It does take a while to process this, but it's so much better than having to use another package.

The "origin" and mate connector selections are a little weird. They're not used in the demo, but in order to have the flat pattern appear where I would like, it sometimes helps to have the surface split at the "origin". Then add a mate connector at that same location, but with the Z pointing into the part.

Also not shown in the demo above, is the facet view, which is also helpful. You can see how the surfaces have been tessellated to simulate the stretching/flattening.

I'm looking forward to more development and in depth demos. Actually I just looked, and here's @GregBrown with a more full demo:

Flatten is huge. I've needed that a number of times, but I agree with @Caden_Armstrong - I very much wish that it was able to generate geometry without a round-trip through an export/import. I have to assume that will come later?

Sketch profile inspector should really help a ton of people clean up DXFs. This is a great quality of life thing, and it (obviously to Onshape) comes up on the forums all the time.

Béziers raising/lowering cleanly is a very nice fix. Thank you! I'm glad my cranky response to the 1.188 release was addressed.

Pausing regen is great. It would be cool if it was more flexible about previewing the selection, the way @EvanReese 's Selection Fillet works with its pause regen built in. I suspect that would take some new Featurescript functionality to separate out a preview from a full blown regen.

Definitely some good stuff in here!
I'm a little bit puzzled by the flatten not being able to produce a surface in the part studio though… That seems like it would be useful… You can export but it creates a download, why not at least offer a "save as new tab". Even better why not just be a feature that generates the face so that it can update parametrically?