Initial feature requests

js49304

I am loving Onshape!  Best addition to the CAD world in a long time for sure. 

I would expect that you guys are aware of much of this already, but so far my initial requests for functionality are:

1. Lofting and surfacing tools

2. Organization ability in feature tree

3. Customization ability for user interface (zooming direction, graphics view, units display, etc.)

4. Customization for GUI colors and button appearance (the current colors are hard for me to see)

5. Support for 3D Connexion mouse. 

6. Ability to extrude in 2 directions, with 2 different distances within one extrude feature. 

7. Support for filleting options (keep surfaces vs keep edges etc).

I am very much looking forward to seeing the upcoming drawing features too. 

awk

Can you expand on item 2 - Organization in the feature true? There are many different ways to organize things :-) We'd like to understand as much as possible about the range of opinions and experiences with this.

elif

For #6, unless you're doing extrudes with end conditions (like up-to-surface, etc.) you might be able to make do with current Thicken command. Thicken can take sketch regions as input and can be thickened in both directions with different offsets.
There's certainly improvements logged for the extrude functionality, including the two-direction extrude,  and we will get to them as soon as priorities allow.

js49304

Just encountered this today: 

A customer sent sent me cad files through email for a quote.  I would like the ability (from email on an iPhone) to upload the cad files to onshape so I can view them. 

max_nikitin52721

please add elliptical arc

billy2

Js49

won't happen, the email is a file.

Now if you both were on onshape, now you're  cookie with gas! A whole new world is beginning to form.

ric_fulop

Billy and JS49, several apps like DropBox,  Good Reader or HelloSign enable you to upload documents to a cloud service to view them...I don't see why we can't have the Onshape app associate the extension and offer it as an open file service in the iOS filepicker.  The app would then walk you though the workflow to upload...its a good idea

js49304

Ric_Fulop, I agree. If the files are going to end up on Onshape anyways, might as well be able to upload files from email. 

js49304

Andrew Kimpton, I would be happy with the ability to add tree items to new folders and also the ability to add certain items to a global "favorites" folder that stays near the top of the tree.  Maybe an option for more global folders that automatically populate with all solids, surfaces, planes, sketches etc.  Most of this is basically solidworks type functionality I'm explaining here. But it's worked well for us in keeping lengthy feature trees organized. 

js49304

Thanks @elif, I will try that out.