I really miss Alin coming here to tell us how much faster the latest release will be.
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Has he been on here since the switch over from CADForum.net?
I guess I just looked at the ālast postā date & didnāt look at the ālast seenā date!
You know, that sounds a lot like the situation weāre in, except not quite everything wanted and we would like to do 3D without SOLIDWORKS as well.
We donāt use electrical.
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We never went with SolidWorks Electrical. It was looked at but our global parent is going with Eplan which does schematics, 3d wiring, and harness drawings. Kind of similar to SWX Electrical. Not sure if it can draw harness as 2d only without a model though.
There are some other products on the market that do 2d only:
RapidHarness: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_ndO3zmEYo
HarnesSys: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrkeEoNInGw
Zuken E3.series: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfVNqobTMsU
Itās a lot less stress not to be bothered with the top ten. Itās irrelevant, just not enough people are involved to get any idea of what the general user really needs/wants. The sooner it ends the better.
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At this point, they need some sort of āPR we listen to our customersā propaganda to display at SolidWorks 3DExperience World.
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it was a lot better to do the survey when the compiled the enhancement request into just one long list of questions. Vote up and vote down each idea and submit instead of this special resubmit thing they got going on.
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Top Ten as it currently stands (2026-01-15);
1 MBD: Improve ability to manage DimXpert Tree and delete unused features (97 likes)
2 Extend the DimXpert āEdit Featureā to edit collections, Intersect Circles, Surface of Revolution (93)
4 SPR 807836 ā Fillet all Concave Corners Connected to Start Loop (81)
5 SOLIDWORKS API Documentation - Improve the UI (71)
6 PDM - API for Branch and Merge command (68)
7 Intelligent Assembly Driven MBD (64)
= New Standard Display State for Rendering Work Smart, Render Beautiful (64)
= Centralized Materials & Coatings Management in PDM: Empower Teams, Eliminate Chaos (64)
10 SOLIDWORKS PDM - Automatic Login Group and User Controlled (58)
Wait a moment. What happened to the list??
VAR attack? 
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#7 is a great idea, but it is more of a restructuring of the entire program than an enhancement.
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If they tackle that, it will probably be on their platform. Iām trying to wrap my head around how it would work. Massive project.
The old TolAnalyst add-in used Dimxpert to do tolerance stackup analysis. Not sure how well it worked, was a lot of work to get it setup.
First, fix #2. Then get everyone update to latest.
Weāll talk again in 10 years.
You use MBD/Dimxpert?
Tried.
CAM software are better at reading it. If CAD can export consistently.
CAD can export but canāt read it so you canāt check if everything is correct.
So itās a crab shot if everything got through.
Voting closes at some point today!
Top Ten as it currently stands (2026-01-16);
1 MBD: Improve ability to manage DimXpert Tree and delete unused features (104 likes)
2 Extend the DimXpert āEdit Featureā to edit collections, Intersect Circles, Surface of Revolution (98)
4 SPR 807836 ā Fillet all Concave Corners Connected to Start Loop (86)
5 SOLIDWORKS API Documentation - Improve the UI (80)
6 PDM - API for Branch and Merge command (72)
= Intelligent Assembly Driven MBD (72)
8 Centralized Materials & Coatings Management in PDM: Empower Teams, Eliminate Chaos (71)
9 New Standard Display State for Rendering Work Smart, Render Beautiful (69)
10 SOLIDWORKS PDM - Automatic Login Group and User Controlled (62)
On that whole list #4 is the only one I would ever use, assuming itās implemented before May 31, 2028.
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Iām hoping they split it out by product, there is so little here that is the core product.
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Last snapshot before I log off for the day as itās still open. Couple of (relatively) big number jumps.
Top Ten as it currently stands (2026-01-16);
1 MBD: Improve ability to manage DimXpert Tree and delete unused features (111 likes)
2 Extend the DimXpert āEdit Featureā to edit collections, Intersect Circles, Surface of Revolution (105)
4 SPR 807836 ā Fillet all Concave Corners Connected to Start Loop (92)
5 Intelligent Assembly Driven MBD (91)
6 SOLIDWORKS API Documentation - Improve the UI (84)
7 Centralized Materials & Coatings Management in PDM: Empower Teams, Eliminate Chaos (83)
8 PDM - API for Branch and Merge command (77)
9 New Standard Display State for Rendering Work Smart, Render Beautiful (75)
10 SOLIDWORKS PDM - Automatic Login Group and User Controlled (68)
And what is a more ācore SWā focused Top Ten;
1 SPR 807836 ā Fillet all Concave Corners Connected to Start Loop (92)
2 Add attachments (eg. STEP, DXF, STL) when exporting a drawing PDF (51)
3 Desktop SOLIDWORKS: Focus More On Fixing Bugs (39)
4 Multi-instance of SolidWorks (34)
= Desktop SOLIDWORKS: Substantially increase stability in SOLIDWORKS (34)
6 Faster, Modern BOM Editor in a Separate Window in SW assemblies and drawings (32)
7 We want more flexible sheet metal functionality. (28)
= Display States in Drawings (28)
9 Add a command to reach the related pattern seed component from a selection (27)
= Option for Linear Dimension Between Two Non-parallel Lines (27)