To give Upchain customers access to new functionality faster and improve the quality of service, Autodesk has changed its Upchain product release cycle from a quarterly update to a progressive rollout. This means that Upchain customers will see new features and enhancements in a progressive and ongoing basis, eliminating the impact of releasing many features and fixes all at once and allowing customers to enjoy the stability of more incremental releases on a more frequent basis.
This post summarizes new functionality and fixes that were rolled out over the course of several weeks in April and May. Watch the video to see some of the features in action and read on to learn more about what’s new in Upchain.
Upchain May Update Highlights
Author Enhancements
Support for new CAD software versions: AutoCAD 2024 and SolidWorks 2023
Users can now use the latest AutoCAD 2024 and SolidWorks 2023 versions with their new features and improved stability, when working with Upchain.
Improved BOM Wizard
New and improved BOM Wizard now enables better memory management, which is especially useful for working with large assemblies. Autodesk has improved the overall user experience and Upchain can now support up to 4k resolution. New features also include:
- Columns editing (using column chooser functionality to add/remove columns)
- ‘Row details’ panel showing more information about selected part
- Bulk operations and updates
- Improvements on anomaly resolving and bulk anomaly resolving performance
Consistent item order sequence between the web and CAD plugin
The web and CAD plugin eBOM now shows items in the esame sequence order when using ‘Sequence number’ sorting, increasing user efficiency when working between BOMs.
Handling of plugin error dialogs
User action dialogs have been improved to persist on top of the CAD application for better visibility and user observability.
Improvement for the plugin’s latest eBOM filter
The latest eBOM filter now keeps more consistent file versioning for released assemblies, even when there are newer file versions of the child items in the system.
Before improvement:
After improvement:
Participant Enhancements
Bill of material representation in change request
For assemblies represented in the change request, we are keeping the persistent BOM representation that is aligned with the project’s BOM.
Administrative Enhancements
Workflow support for item’s custom attributes of picklist type
Custom item attributes with values provided from picklists can now be checked during the release process. Tenant admins can now add a workflow check which would prevent this kind of custom attribute to be left unpopulated on released items.
API improvements
Tenant admins can now create investigation requests (IRs) using an API call: /api/investigation-requests/v1/projects/{projectId}/investigation-requests/actions/create.
An item’s genealogy information can now be updated for a specific item version using an API call: /api/bom/v2/items by adding item ID in attribute “originalItemVersionId”.
Performance updates
We have increased the performance for generating model/drawing stale report by 50%. Also, obtaining the list of resolved orphan items on the CN is now performing up to 29x faster.
Learn more
See previous Upchain product updates here.
Visit the Autodesk Fusion 360 Manage with Upchain product center here.
Share your feedback
Many of these enhancements were made because of user requests. To make sure we’re working on your priorities, be sure to give us your feedback. You can join the following communities to share feedback and product improvement requests with Autodesk’s Upchain product team:
Upchain Ideas – Submit your ideas for improvements and new features.
Upchain Forums – Discuss Upchain with our technical teams and your peers.
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