Where has gone the sketch?

antonio_soares485

Hi, I am a occasional user of OnShape. I use-it for designing mechanical parts for fabricating parts oe modelling devices, volumes or other stuff. I am a basic user.
As far as I understand, there is no need to save our work as it is a onlive tool.
Well, yesterday and today again, I lost completely a sketch that I was working on. I did an interruption of some amount, let´s say more than two hour, and left the computer online. 
When return to work to resume the sketch I was asked to reconnect and the sketch was gone. Tried to go back with the time line but nothing happened. It vanished.
Did I missed some procedure? How to save our work? 
Would like to read some thoughts about.
Thanks

NeilCooke

It should save a sketch if it disconnects, but that depends on how it disconnected. Best not to leave a sketch open if you intend to walk away for a while. Confirm the sketch first and it will be ok.

Evan_Reese

This is the only way I've ever "lost work" in Onshape (it rarely happens). If I'm working on a particularly time-consuming sketch, I even sometimes hit the green check to confirm it, then double click the feature again to keep editing as a way to make sure it "saves".

It's worth noting that, as a general best-practice, your sketches should usually be fairly simple though, and if you need additional detail, you should do additional sketches.... usually.