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I am working as a software engineer, but had a chance to study mechatronics/robotics a few years ago, and this is were I came into contact with SolidWorks and fell in love with this tool. Sad to say that I only got to work with it as a student :-( So I was really happy when I found out about Onshape - this is what I was looking for - a substitute for SolidWorks. And the bonus is that it is OS independent and my drawings are accessibly from everywhere.

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thomas_miglinci

January 2018

Can we please have some kind of feedback if the login-request is being processed or not? The current implementation does nothing after clicking on the Sign-In button - so you don't even know if the l… (View Post)

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Re: Feature requests: Variable name niceties

thomas_miglinci

April 2017

I would also like to have a way of easy editing/adding of variables - the available dialog is okay for a small amount, but if you are going to have many variables it is a pain in the a... (View Post)

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Re: Suggestion concerning the 'mate-dialog'

thomas_miglinci

January 2016

Hi philip_thomas, this is a great tip, worth being mentioned in the official documentation on https://cad.onshape.com/help/index.htm#keyboardshortcuts.htm <br>Thanx a lot for this. So: * re-op… (View Post)

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Suggestion concerning the 'mate-dialog'

thomas_miglinci

January 2016

IMHO the mate-dialog misses at least two improvements: * If operated with the keyboard (m-key) the focus upon opening the mate-dialog should be in the drop-down-menu were one could select the type of… (View Post)

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Adding thread/gauge-dimensions for screw-holes

thomas_miglinci

January 2016

Instead of boring e.g. an 8mm-hole I want to specify a hole for an 8mm-metric screw (=M8). I am not interested in drawing a helix or something else nor do I want to have a realistic look-a-like - but… (View Post)

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