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I was excited to see @GregBrown 's video, and decades ago I remember appreciating Creo (then Pro/E) using the Publish/Subscribe model. It made a fair amount of sense to me then, and I missed it when I moved to Solidworks.

Now that this is in the context of Onshape, I question the functionality a bit. It makes a lot of sense if there are multiple dependent part studios, as it makes it much easier to modify the available references in one place (the publish feature). However, if the path of dependencies is just one master part studio to a dependent part studio, then perhaps it would be better to have a more capable derive feature which would allow all the available reference types and make it a little easier to see what's been picked. Right now the derive feature brings up a very tiny window with small previews and if you don't have sketches named, it's really hard to tell what you're picking.

I also find the UX of turning on and off visibility of the sub-items in a derive to be tricky. I sometimes end up toggling things on and off more than I really need to because there are layers of states which control what's visible. I haven't tried this Publish feature yet, but I'm curious how this one (or Greg's) affects the visibility toggling if everything is bundled in a composite item.

I miss Solidworks concept of "favorites" which allows key sketches etc. to be collected at the top of the tree for quick location and visibility toggling.

I think there's room for both approaches, but I'd really like to see more improvements to the built-in derive.

@rob_mcmahon I changed the FS to not kill the mate (i was trying to reduce duplicates), and you can use get and set property in edit logic, but not for mate connectors.

could you roll back the document to an older point in history in the version graph? You should be able to restore to just before the fillet was added.

@rob_mcmahon I fixed it (i think) thanks for finding the bug. update to the next version.