{"id":37035,"date":"2018-04-23T08:00:53","date_gmt":"2018-04-23T12:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/?p=37035"},"modified":"2018-04-20T12:27:38","modified_gmt":"2018-04-20T16:27:38","slug":"turn-your-solidworks-hack-into-a-key-feature-with-enhancement-requests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.solidworks.com\/solidworksblog\/2018\/04\/turn-your-solidworks-hack-into-a-key-feature-with-enhancement-requests.html","title":{"rendered":"Turn Your SOLIDWORKS Hack Into a Key Feature with Enhancement Requests"},"content":{"rendered":"

When you are dealing with such a complex and function rich software like SOLIDWORKS, it’s easy for a few hidden features to slip through the cracks. Although some of these offer only minor help to your day-to-day design work, some of them can have a major impact both now and in the future. One of these hidden gems many overlook is called the Enhancement Request.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Maybe you have created your own hotkey that takes a 10-step process down to one and you wanted to share it with the world? How about some strange functionality that you have crafted up that could be useful to the SOLIDWORKS design community?<\/span><\/p>\n

Whatever the case may be, you can use the enhancement request process to increase its visibility in the community, sometimes even to the point that it is added as an actual feature to a future version of SOLIDWORKS!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

What is an enhancement request?<\/strong><\/p>\n

An enhancement request (ER) is an opportunity for our SOLIDWORKS creatives that are on subscription services to submit their ideas, tips and suggestions to improve future versions of the SOLIDWORKS software. These requests are then voted on by the SOLIDWORKS community.<\/span><\/p>\n

How does the voting process work?<\/strong><\/p>\n

By voting for ERs that affect you, SOLIDWORKS gets a better understanding to identify what requests provide the most value to the most customers.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe ER data we collect is highly valued and the major driving force in deciding which enhancements we implement in each release of SOLIDWORKS.\u201d<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

– Bruce Holway, Product Definition Director, SOLIDWORKS R&D<\/span><\/p>\n

This is why it is important to vote for enhancement requests that affect you! Take a look at this video for more\u00a0<\/span>Enhancement Insights<\/span>.<\/span><\/p>\n