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I recently completed a smallish design project for the fabrication of 200 welded items (using F360 only, mostly CAD and rendering, and one FEA).
Here are some of my findings:
1) CUSTOM UNITS FOR DISPLAYING PROPERTIES IN MODEL FILE (when clicking RMB on a selected model)
I'd like to see separate settings for model and drawing units, e.g., I don't want to read the mass of something that weighs 219 kg in grams (for example, as 219015.36 g). SOLIDWORKS and Inventor has this option.
2) MULTIPLE SHEETS
For drawings, please.
3) LINKED PROPERTIES (LIKE MASS, PARAMETERS)
Ability to link to dimension values and other parameters from the drawing environment. For example, I'd like to show the dimensions of a plate (or anything else) in the Parts List, like RECT TUBING <d1> x <d2> x <my_length> and it displays as RECT TUBING 200 x 100 x 1350. Or the mass of something in the Title Block.
4) PARTS LIST FONT, TITLE BLOCK FONT: CAPS OR NO CAPS OR MIXED CASE
The ability to control this, for example, an option that ALL Parts List text is upper case (Caps), not a mixture.
5) CHAMFER DIMS, VIRTUAL SHARPS, WELDING SYMBOLS
For the drawing environment, please add these. I guess this will probably happen at some point.
6) DETAIL VIEW OF SECTIONS
Cannot do detail views of sections! Essential to have this, e.g., to show circlip groove dimensions.
7) OPACITY AND COLOUR CONTROL OF PARTS AND ASSEMBLIES IN DRAWINGS
To hide certain parts or assemblies.
8) DEFAULT NAMING SCHEME BETWEEN PARTS, ASSEMBLIES, DRAWINGS
I'd like to set up a naming scheme for models and drawings per project, and/or a default for all projects. Example: If I name a file ASSY - WHEEL v4 then the drawing of that assembly should be DRWG - WHEEL REV 1, or it simply needs to get the properties from the model file so that I don't need to name things twice.
9) AUTO CREATION OF PDFs AND DXFs IN BACKGROUND (CLOUD)
I'd like an option that F360 automatically saves PDFs and DXFs of my drawings in the background (back-ups basically) so that they're always up to date and I don't have to go and save them each time. A filename naming scheme will be useful here too.
10) AUTO NUMBERING ACCORDING TO A USER DEFINED SCHEME FOR PARTS AND ASSEMBLIES
See point 8 above. There needs to be some sort of intelligence between the model version numbers and the drawing revision numbers, I'd like to set the drawing revision number of a part in the that file's model environment, and the drawing should pick it up and automatically create a new drawing file.
11) MOVING VIEWS CAN BE SLOW OR DOESN'T WORK
Perhaps it's just my NVIDIA Quadro 16GB graphic card? Not sure...
12) SETTING THE CASE OF ANNOTATIONS IN PARTS LISTS, TITLE BLOCKS, ETC.
As per point 4 above.
13) IF A VIEW IS MOVED, LEADER TEXT AND BALLOONS DOESN'T MOVE WITH IT
Very annoying behaviour, please fix this.
14) UNITS FROM MODEL PROPERTIES DOESN'T HONOR UNIT VALUE DISPLAY SETTING IN PREFERENCES
15) DRAWING AUTO-UPDATE OPTION
If a model changed, just update the drawing automatically. Why would I not want to update it?
16) LINEAR DIAMETER OPTION (WITHOUT HAVING TO MANUALLY ENTER THE DIAM SYMBOL)
17) DIAM SYSMBOL SHOULD BE IN FRONT OF DIM BY DEFAULT
And if I do need to add the diameter symbol manually, F360 should know to add it to the FRONT of dimension.
18) ABSENCE OF REVISION BLOCK OR REVISION TRIANGLE
Please add. as per Inventor.
19) SQUASHING/STRETCHING OF FONTS IN TITLE BLOCK UGLY
Maybe I just need to get used to this, but it looks terrible.
20) DRAWING ENVIRONMENT SHOULD HAVE MECHANISM FOR CONTROLING REVISION NUMBERS OF DRAWINGS.
I suppose this is a duplicate of point 8 above, but some basic version control would be welcome, perhaps based on a simple set of rules that can be defined per project by the user?
21) WHEN ACTIVATING A COMPONENT, GREY OUT IRRELEVANT FEATURES IN TIMELINE, OR COLLAPSE THEM COMPLETELY.
I often struggle to find the relevant features in the timeline for an active competent, especially if it's a large assembly.
22) DIAM AND RADIUS DIMENSIONS SHOULD HAVE THE OPTION OF A HORIZONTAL LEADER BASELINE
23) ACTIVATION OF TOP ITEM IN BROWSER TREE A PAIN, YOU HAVE TO SCROLL TO THE TOP EVERYTIME (OR OFTEN).
Please give us a shortcut to do this, or a RMB click option in the browser, e.g., "Activate Top", or something like that.
24) SCROLL BAR ON LEFT OF BROWSER TOO NARROW
Please make it a bit wider, it's too narrow to quickly grab and drag in order to scroll.
Other than that, great software. Once the drawing environment is sorted out, sheet metal and weldments (in SOLIDWORKS parlance, called frames in Autodesk iirc) are added, I see little point of using Inventor or SOLIDWORKS anymore.
Thanks,
William
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