Why the seemingly never ending updates?

Why the seemingly never ending updates?

sid
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Why the seemingly never ending updates?

sid
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Before I begin to Rant... lemme say that I really like F360. It took a minute to get past the initial learning curve coming from good ole AUTOCAD but, it was worth the 4-5 bottles of excedrin that were consumed.

 

That being said, I want to take Y'all back to the good ole days when Software Companies CAREFULLY planned their updates and did a release 1x a year. Remember?  Now it seems like there is a F360 update every couple of weeks-and half of them are to fix bugs from the last update.

 

I could be wrong but, it sure does seem to me that y'all are just rushing like hell to get a new release out the door that there are so many bugs and other issues that the tail is waggin the dog.

 

Again, lemme say- I like F360.  I do not like the fact that I have to keep relearning it everytime y'all do an update.  It's NOT a ****-PLEASE STOP PLAYING WITH IT!

 

Do your updates, make your improvements BUT Stop making your customers be your BETA team.  We pay good money and (at least some us) use this software to feed our families.  We depend on it.  We depend on you.  Do you guys realize this?

 

Now if you will excuse me, I have to figure out why in this latest update I can no longer select faces to draw sketches off of that we just fine last week- Uhg.

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rkmcswain
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It feels like the closer we get to everything being SAAS, this is how things are going to be. No big "releases", just..... heres an update, theres an update, and here's an update to fix the things we broke in the last update (exhibit A: Civil 3D 2019.3, and the shortly thereafter release of 2019.3.1)

 

This also allows us to beta test things and if there is something broken, just issue another update. Now having said that, I couldn't imaging having to wrap up a code cycle and find enough people to test every function in every application they produce and aim for some percentage of success in every release. If they still did that today, it might take 3 years between releases, and .... well.... oops.... they can't do that and expect customers to pay an annual fee.  That is what got the old maintenance/subscription fees started ~20 years ago. 

 

 

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rohit.bapat
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Hello @sid 

 

We understand your concern. Can you please share the file and the video to reproduce the issue you mentioned regarding sketch creation.

 

Thank you,

Best Regards

Rohit Bapat





Rohit Bapat
Sr. Product Owner
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