Top Ten List Live

[mp3-250]

I wanted to submit something like " do not activate by default new options and software features that potentially modify legacy workflows" .
I think it was already sumitted or at least I saw it somewhere, probably sinked at the bottom of the swamp.

[AlexLachance]

I wanted to submit something like " do not activate by default new options and software features that potentially modify legacy workflows" .
I think it was already sumitted or at least I saw it somewhere, probably sinked at the bottom of the swamp.

It was submitted in the SolidWorks Enhancement community I believe a little while ago. You could post it and then link it here and we could vote on it, I could post it for you if you think it will bring more attention to it.

[mp3-250]

It was submitted in the SolidWorks Enhancement community I believe a little while ago. You could post it and then link it here and we could vote on it, I could post it for you if you think it will bring more attention to it.

If you can find it, please post it.

[dave.laban]

Voting closes tomorrow some time, current TTL is:

1. [MBD] Be able to assign Note and Surface Finish, to a group of faces or a pattern (47 votes)
2. [MBD] Add PMI list module in 3D PDF editor (46)
3. Coating/Treatment object in FeatureManager Tree (44)
4. Material Database Interface: Ability to link/attach a file (.pdf, .doc, etc.) to a material (43)
5. Make Electrical an everything Schematic Tool (37)
6. Use the SolidWorks Enhancement Ideas Community for the purpose of the Top10 (35)
7. Electrical & PDM - Better link between the two (33)
= MBD: Dynamically link to faces defined in compound plane (33)
9. Electrical Schematic Interconnect (32)
10. Electrical Schematic Drawings vs 3D Flattened (31)

If you're thinking the vote numbers are low, you're right - first place got 93 votes last year. Which is still pretty pathetic given the size of the userbase.

For reference if the Enhancement Request community was used, highest voted idea is on 69 votes (and doesn't feature in the TTL exercise).

[AlexLachance]

Voting closes tomorrow some time, current TTL is:

1. [MBD] Be able to assign Note and Surface Finish, to a group of faces or a pattern (47 votes)
2. [MBD] Add PMI list module in 3D PDF editor (46)
3. Coating/Treatment object in FeatureManager Tree (44)
4. Material Database Interface: Ability to link/attach a file (.pdf, .doc, etc.) to a material (43)
5. Make Electrical an everything Schematic Tool (37)
6. Use the SolidWorks Enhancement Ideas Community for the purpose of the Top10 (35)
7. Electrical & PDM - Better link between the two (33)
= MBD: Dynamically link to faces defined in compound plane (33)
9. Electrical Schematic Interconnect (32)
10. Electrical Schematic Drawings vs 3D Flattened (31)

If you're thinking the vote numbers are low, you're right - first place got 93 votes last year. Which is still pretty pathetic given the size of the userbase.

For reference if the Enhancement Request community was used, highest voted idea is on 69 votes (and doesn't feature in the TTL exercise).

The vote counts aren't even good.

For instance:

Use the SolidWorks Enhancement Ideas Community for the purpose of the Top10 - 35 = 39 actually
Give us a vote down - 31 = 30 actually
Multiple Windows in One session - 19 = 18 actually

I pointed it out to them and they told me it's working fine and that I should wait until their next update to see if the issue is resolved, even though my picture showed to them that I had 39 likes on the Enhancement ideas one when you can only count 35 when viewing who liked.

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[dave.laban]

Too much faith in your notification pane.

Your notifications will double count anyone who likes, then unlikes, then re-likes the idea. You also won't get told if someone unlikes. So the likes on the post are the most reliable indicator.

[AlexLachance]

Too much faith in your notification pane.

Your notifications will double count anyone who likes, then unlikes, then re-likes the idea. You also won't get told if someone unlikes. So the likes on the post are the most reliable indicator.

lol, leave it to Dassault to confuse people themselves.

[DennisD]

Voting closes tomorrow some time, current TTL is:

1. [MBD] Be able to assign Note and Surface Finish, to a group of faces or a pattern (47 votes)
2. [MBD] Add PMI list module in 3D PDF editor (46)
3. Coating/Treatment object in FeatureManager Tree (44)
4. Material Database Interface: Ability to link/attach a file (.pdf, .doc, etc.) to a material (43)
5. Make Electrical an everything Schematic Tool (37)
6. Use the SolidWorks Enhancement Ideas Community for the purpose of the Top10 (35)
7. Electrical & PDM - Better link between the two (33)
= MBD: Dynamically link to faces defined in compound plane (33)
9. Electrical Schematic Interconnect (32)
10. Electrical Schematic Drawings vs 3D Flattened (31)

If you're thinking the vote numbers are low, you're right - first place got 93 votes last year. Which is still pretty pathetic given the size of the userbase.

For reference if the Enhancement Request community was used, highest voted idea is on 69 votes (and doesn't feature in the TTL exercise).

Wow! Talk about the numbers being low! (And I have "contributed" to that by not playing in their sandbox.)

The final tally for ONE and TWO a few years ago was something over 300 for each. The third on that list was barely above half at ~160. Ah, but we are now in the times of enlightenment with the 3DSwamp.

[dave.laban]

I wonder at what point they'll put the whole exercise out of its misery and abandon it. So much admin time for so little gain. They can even pretend they're listening to users by just using the ER community instead from next year!

[AlexLachance]

The fact that Electrical and MBD were pushed to the top within a few days exemplify the need for a vote down button.

[mp3-250]

The fact that Electrical and MBD were pushed to the top within a few days exemplify the need for a vote down button.

I think the downvote is prone to abuse.
They could ask VARs to downvote to rig the whole thing more than it could be now. Also there are people that downvote for many reasons, like throttle threads visibility or just to be mean to others.

Even so they could make dummy accounts on the platform, I think nobody cares if you do not own solidworks and just register to vote right?

Probably it is really better to use enhancement requests and close the whole circus.

[SPerman]

NX is getting further and further in the rear view mirror, so I may not be remembering correctly. My understanding is they took the list of enhancement requests. Filtered the list down (I assume) and put those ideas in front of the community to vote, via email. You didn't have to be active on a forum to participate. They sent you an email. You spent a few minutes clicking through a survey. That's it. I feel like they got way more feedback from the general masses, and it wasn't anywhere near as prone to abuse by upvoting.

This was back in the GTAC days. I have no idea how it is done now.

[dave.laban]

Big (ish) jump in vote counts;

1. [MBD] Be able to assign Note and Surface Finish, to a group of faces or a pattern (64 votes)
2. [MBD] Add PMI list module in 3D PDF editor (63)
3. Coating/Treatment object in FeatureManager Tree (58)
4. Material Database Interface: Ability to link/attach a file (.pdf, .doc, etc.) to a material (57)
5. Make Electrical an everything Schematic Tool (50)
6. Electrical Schematic Interconnect (46)
7. Electrical & PDM - Better link between the two (45)
8. MBD: Dynamically link to faces defined in compound plane (44)
9. Electrical Schematic Drawings vs 3D Flattened (43)
10. Electrical Splines (42)


And if we want a non MBD / Electrical top ten (like they did a few years ago when about 6/10 where MBD I think?) it would be;

1. Coating/Treatment object in FeatureManager Tree (58)
2. Material Database Interface: Ability to link/attach a file (.pdf, .doc, etc.) to a material (57)
3. Use the SolidWorks Enhancement Ideas Community for the purpose of the Top10 (36)
4. Give us a Vote Down Button (31)
5. Add centre mark to detailed views if the view does not contain a centre mark (25)
6. Escape Button to Cancel all Ongoing Commands (21)
= Improve selection of lines in drawings (21)
8. PDM: Conditional actions for workflow transitions (20)
9. Multiple windows in one session. (19)
= The ability to convert any line into a magnetic line (19)
= Chamfer option to keep the vertex after chamfering (19)

Which isn't the worst combination of ideas I've ever seen. I'd quite like 1, 2, 3, 5, 6 and 9-11.

[Damo]

Voting closes tomorrow some time, current TTL is:

1. [MBD] Be able to assign Note and Surface Finish, to a group of faces or a pattern (47 votes)
2. [MBD] Add PMI list module in 3D PDF editor (46)
3. Coating/Treatment object in FeatureManager Tree (44)
4. Material Database Interface: Ability to link/attach a file (.pdf, .doc, etc.) to a material (43)
5. Make Electrical an everything Schematic Tool (37)
6. Use the SolidWorks Enhancement Ideas Community for the purpose of the Top10 (35)
7. Electrical & PDM - Better link between the two (33)
= MBD: Dynamically link to faces defined in compound plane (33)
9. Electrical Schematic Interconnect (32)
10. Electrical Schematic Drawings vs 3D Flattened (31)

If you're thinking the vote numbers are low, you're right - first place got 93 votes last year. Which is still pretty pathetic given the size of the userbase.

For reference if the Enhancement Request community was used, highest voted idea is on 69 votes (and doesn't feature in the TTL exercise).

Dave.

How have you come about these numbers.?
I've looked for these stats and how to see the highest/lowest voted items and did not find a way.
It's probably obvious and I just don't see it in front of my face.
Admittedly, I'm a bit of a dunce sometimes.

[AlexLachance]

Dave.

How have you come about these numbers.?
I've looked for these stats and how to see the highest/lowest voted items and did not find a way.
It's probably obvious and I just don't see it in front of my face.
Admittedly, I'm a bit of a dunce sometimes.

You gotta use the search at the top, then filter by likes, then manually select the highest quantities. Very intuitive. It's private now so we can't see the Top10 anymore.

[dave.laban]

Dave.

How have you come about these numbers.?
I've looked for these stats and how to see the highest/lowest voted items and did not find a way.
It's probably obvious and I just don't see it in front of my face.
Admittedly, I'm a bit of a dunce sometimes.

Alex gave the rundown for finding the numbers for the active TTL (before they closed the community).

For the previous year stats it's somehow even more ridiculous.

Go to the Enhancement Requests community.
Open up the Tags system.
Find the "Where" sub-menu, then User Tags, then "3DXW2024"
Then go to the "How" sub-menu (obviously!), then User Tags, then select the highest value entry...which of course can't be sorted numerically (but this minor flaw is being fixed in a forthcoming version of Swym).

And then you open up the idea to double check it's rank in the relevant year!

It's SO EASY.

[jcapriotti]

Big (ish) jump in vote counts


And if we want a non MBD / Electrical top ten (like they did a few years ago when about 6/10 where MBD I think?) it would be;

Last time, and probably this time, it was some Turkish VARs employees padding the votes for MBD. No way these are top ten 10. Of course the 3dx site is lousy for doing this kind of survey. Dassault should use a survey site dedicated for this type of thing.

[SPerman]

I will reiterate my opinion that the top ten list is nothing but a marketing exercise to create the illusion that they give a damn about your opinion.