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Re: Improvements to Onshape - September 14th, 2021
I don't doubt there are many hard working groups at PTC improving Onshape. I review each new update release and get to read many enthusiastic users comments who needed those particular updates.lougallo said:When we built the forum and the improvement requests area, it was to add another vector of input to our teams. We have requests that come in this public forum as well as from all users directly to our support team. In addition to this list, which is automated into our bug tracker and support tools, we talk to customers, partners, educators and internal teams for improvements and bug fixes we have to get on the plan as well. It is our goal to ensure we can hear from all angles what is a priority.steven_elliott555 said:guy_rogel said:255 users have been asking for over 2 years to have the option to draw external threads so they can make a simple screw drawing which is still not possible in OS, and you are dealing with the center marks colors.....I think somthing is wrong with your priorities
@guy_rogel has a good point. The improvement request forum page was created to allow users to voice opportunities for improvement and allow others to vote them up. Many of the top 10 open items have been on this page for 2+ years (see attached image)
My organization has been asking for 3+ years on more sheet metal features and since then we have gotten hems & flipping the flat pattern. 3yrs of our patience is starting to running out.
Is the improvement request forum still considered the best place for users to upvote ideas?
I completely understand looking at the improvements every 3 weeks and wondering when your most important improvements will come. I've been there.. .many of us here have. I hope you believe that we are hard at work each release to try to get as many productive new features delivered in addition to growing the platform, stability and performance each release.
As you know @lougallo - our organization is all about sheet metal and processing sheet metal. For 3+ years of using Onshape - we still have a desperate need for more tools dealing with formed features, c'sink options in SM, exporting dxf flat patterns that provide tool centers for formed features, better flange corner management, and the list goes on. Almost anything being proceed with formed features requires the dxf output from Onshape to be processed a second time in another application to prepare it for processing.
Regardless of engineering and manufacturing disciplines, most users feel the same way a little about having to patiently wait on long standing Onshape feature requests. I just want to make sure the requests and the method for submitting them has not changed.
Re: Improvements to Onshape - September 14th, 2021
Folders in Instance List is great 
, but I am missing the same in the Mate Features list.
, but I am missing the same in the Mate Features list.
Re: Improvements to Onshape - September 14th, 2021
It's a Brand New Day! Folders in the Instances tree is the big thing I've been wanting since I started using Onshape! Woo-HOO ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! !
That said... one recommended change, when you click on the folder, objects within it should be highlighted in the model, and they are not.
But still great progress.
Next thing I desperately need are more font options, like simply Arial.
That said... one recommended change, when you click on the folder, objects within it should be highlighted in the model, and they are not.
But still great progress.
Next thing I desperately need are more font options, like simply Arial.
Re: Rotating and panning parts with Macbook trackpad
Under the trackpad in Systems preferences, you can set your secondary click (aka right mouse click). I like to set it to the bottom right of the trackpad so I can click and then use my other finger to rotate by using the rest of the space.
