Feature Requests

My models always end up slightly inclined when orbiting. This is annoying if I want to take nice screenshots, and it just slightly upsets me to see a model tilted just off of vertical. I am a big fan of the orbital controls of Dlubal RFEM: mouse only, predominantly constrained orbit, but it is possible to turn the model over and view it from below. Don't know exactly how they do it, but it works like a charm!

It is becoming messy and impossible to keep clean.

A users requested the ability to select multiple parts, either in the component tree or while clicking on the model, and then select hide, isolate, or wireframe.

It would be great if the different representations in Inventor are available in Bench3D. If you can switch between the representations, it becomes possible to evaluate different states of the design. This is useful for 3D design reviews and to be able to check for critical clearances etc for every configuration.

If you are used to a particular mouse control scheme to navigate in 3D, you will be able to set Bench3D to match that. You don't have to switch controls anymore.

Every user of a Space Mouse knows how intuitive and fast the use of it is. We want to bring it to Bench3D to improve your workflow!

We will adapt our 3D engine to be able to render patterned parts on any machine, regardless if they have limited resources. Where previously, these parts will be hidden, they now will all be visible. That makes sure that anyone can review all elements of a design.

Reviewing technical drawings is an integral part of the design process. That's why Bench3D should support viewing them. You can use the same Issue tracking system to work on perfecting the drawing as a team.

Sketches can have important information in them and need to be visible in a 3D model on Bench3D. We will make sure that you can see sketches in the 3D viewer, so you can use them as a reference etc. This helps with understanding layouts of the larger context where your design is a part of etc.

Next to the Status labels we want to give to option to add you own labels to an Issue. You can decide yourself what to call an Issue and the new labels can be used for filtering. Let's say you want to add a label called 'Safety'. You can then tag any Issue that concerns safety with that label. If you want to review all safety related Issues, you can just filter on that label and review them one by one.