Jol's long and very old nag list .. feel free to comment / add

1 - setting up perspective reliably

2 - display performance on Mac is still poor with complex models

3 - models get hoooooooje quickly and suddenly .. why ?

4 - 'associative duplicates' in the xxx-array tools doesn't work properly

5 - history links on deleted objects's parents should also be deleted (eg extrude from a profile .. delete extrude, profile still linked in history tree)

6 - branch solid tool - poked !

7 - silhouette tool - works only under certain circumstances

8 - text attributes not in attributes tab

9 - deform tool fails too often .. particularly 'to curve' .. it's total rubbish !

10 - some tools (eg deform) don't allow data updating in the 'topbar' .. in fact if you click on a cylinder for example, you get data boxes which stay (with inappropriate data) when you then click on a deform object. So many tools don't even show databoxes. eg: when you click back on a bent object

11 - curve bend tool soooo hard to use

12 - arc etc screen resolution awful

13 - updating program is a hassle .. needs managing

14 - there are no symbol samples any more .. why ?

15 - you can still open the same file twice .. this is potentially dangerous

16 - print dialog needs love (print window is total rubbish .. used to be fine !)

17 - grid must be centred to 0,0,0 .. why ? .. mostly you build in +ve xy space !!

18 - when flipping between 2 open models, view rotation point is still global .. needs saving with each model .. must be reset to ZERO on 'new drawing' ! I can't tell you how annoying this is !!!

19 - Prefs>display solid/surf new colour broken

20 - dynamic help files couldn't be presented worse .. no header, search or decent resolution diagrams. So many pages are totally broken. eg Solid +-=, region trim, patterns etc etc

21 - no easy output to Maxwell

22 - no curvature continuous rounding .. critical in modern product design

Trying a demo, won't help anyone make a list like Jol's!
Years of exploration under the hood, there are...;)
Though I agree, all need adressing.
JL

Hey Jol,
Yep. Yep. There they all are, and truly someone without a lot of 3Dirt under his fingernails would not have arrived at this concise and accurate list. Nothing here is a killer, and I recommend CU all the time, but I too have this LIST (yours is more complete, so no need for redundancy). I'm not even really complaining (well...), as I know how development goes with a small staff and wicked complexity. But there it is. There's the list. wow. Nice job, Jol. Thanks.

And oh yeah to any new customer looking this over: Buy it! Like Jol, I love this thing.
That's a great list though.

Associativity between complex lines (path lines for sweeps) is really needed. Associative fillets between 2d lines and robust, easy to edit controls for "polylines".
I work with complex path lines (for sweeps and "pipes") every single day.
The lack of this feature is what keeps me from using concepts as my main modeler.

Also needs faster regeneration of sheet views. Sometimes this is VERY slow.

Here! here! M
Thanks for starting this Jol

Any progress here Todd ?

News on when some of these long-standing issues will be addressed ?

I guess Todd never passes your list on. Or perhaps the dev team just threw the list away because they obviously don't care or these things would have been fixed years ago.

I am incredibly disappointed that neither Tim, nor Punch has cared to fix the basic things before adding more features in V5.

I to wish developers would understand how dearly users want:

1. longstanding bugs squashed
2. longstanding feature enhancements implemented

new features are good but at what cost unhappy long time users?

Gary

Todd .. have these bugs been sent to the developers ?

Are they being addressed in V5 ?

Some of them I have had for years