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Deleting Designs is PAINFUL

paynterf

November 30, 2016 13:59

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I've been using TinkderCad for years now, and love it - its intuitive interface and ease of use has allowed me to make (literally) hundreds of designs.  Unfortunately, that means I HAVE hundreds of designs (459 at last count), and this has become an impossible situation to manage, for the following reasons:

• TinkerCad doesn't allow partial word match searches - only complete words.  Many many of my old designs have titles like 'robotfrontfenderV1', and searching for 'robot' or 'fender' won't find these.
• TinkerCad's project feature is completely useless - all it does is make unnecessary duplication
• TinkerCad doesn't allow multiple design deletes.  We need the ability to perform an action (like delete) on ALL the designs returned in a search.
• Deleting an old design in TinkerCad is PAINFUL!!, especially for an older design.  If I want to delete several designs on page 15 of my design list, TinkerCad automatically returns me to my current page of designs so I have to re-navigate to page 15 each time - PAINFUL!!  Please, Please Please give us some sort of multiple-design management capability

Frank

 

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  Christian December 05, 2016 18:14

  We hear you, Frank. It IS painful to delete or manage many designs at once, and we get this a lot. We need some site restructuring to make this happen.

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  paynterf December 05, 2016 21:50

  Christian,

   

  Thanks for your reply - and the hope that it give me ;-).  TinkerCad is a wonderful product!

   

  Frank

   

   

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  Rejutka January 15, 2017 20:09

  Seems a fitting thread to throw my suggestion in:
  
  Regarding the Beta interface, when you are in a project and go to properties, there should be an option to delete that project.

  Quite often I open projects simply because it's faster to open it than to wait for Tinkercad to render the preview. But then I have to go out again and delete it there.

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  paynterf January 18, 2017 01:48

  Yes, I have noticed this omission as well - definitely a downgrade from the legacy product

  Frank

   

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  Christian January 18, 2017 17:19

  Frank, its the same properties for Beta or Legacy...

  There is now an editor dashboard that we included in Tinkercad Beta last week. You can delete designs from there. Just click the icon next to the Beta icon at the top left of the app to open it.

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  paynterf January 18, 2017 23:07

  Christian,

   

  Yep - found it. Unfortunately, I don't think it is quite there yet; The thumbnails are all blank (which means I can't really tell which ones I want to keep, and which ones I want to delete), and only the last 10 designs are available in the list.  If I click on the 'More designs in your gallery' link, it takes me back to the 'My recent designs' page in the legacy app, not what I want at all :-(  

  However, I think you might be on the right track with this editor dashboard, especially if the thumbnails get populated properly AND the list can be expanded to cover more than the most 10 recent designs.  

  just my $0.02,

  Frank

   

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  Christian January 19, 2017 16:53

  Ahhh, the thumbnails were broken yesterday, we're on it. We have a new approach to the thumbnail generation we will release soon. It will get rid of the missing thumbnail scenerios.

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  tepapalearninglab April 12, 2017 23:01

  Hello,

  I work at a maker space and have school groups coming through daily. We love using TinkerCAD with them and think that it is the best thing available to show them 3D design. Unfortunately, by the end of every session we have 30+ designs and we REALLY don't need to keep them. They're using our login because getting them all to create accounts is an unnecessary barrier. We would love to have the ability to bundle designs into projects for short term organisation and then on masse delete the backlog of designs.

  Please help :)

  Cheers,

  Donald

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  paynterf April 13, 2017 21:29

  Still waiting for the ability to delete multiple designs at once, or even the ability to see more than 10 designs in the thumbnail list.  Those of us with hundreds of old designs (or like the previous poster who has 30+ un-needed designs per teaching session

   

  And, while I'm on the subject, why is the thumbnail list only available from inside a design?  It seems a bit strange to have to go into a design in order to access a feature dealing with ALL designs (or at least the 10 that are shown in the thumbnail list)

  Maybe an API of some sorts so we can write automation scripts??

  Just my $0.02

   

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  Andrew Mckay January 28, 2018 11:12

  I too would like an option for deleting multiple designs. As a long-term TC user I have dozens of projects and hundreds of designs. Many of those designs won't ever be needed, but as I have to delete each individually the likelihood of me tidying up is non-existant. So the TC servers are full of stuff which serves no useful purpose. That can't be good for system manaagement.

  I can understand that server overload could occur if the user requested a number of deletions in one session. However might it be possible for the TC properties dialog to grow an extra option which marked a design as 'available for deletion', and then a background low priority job could take care of the deletions in non-real time? I'm not fussed about seeing the design disappear right then, but woul be real happy if the system could clean up later.

  Furthermore, the user might have a change of mind after marking for deletion - so the background process could be adjusted to only delete after X days have passed since the mark was placed. Alternatively, add a properties field specifying when auto-deletion should take place - if not defined then the design lives forever. Many of my designs are intended to live for a short time anyway - so I could set that time-to-live value when I first set up anyway.

  Finally, this delayed delete could be useful for course instructors who no doubt need to tidy up after students have completed an assignment - so why not define the time-to-live for any design to a default (say 30 days?). That way the TC system would automatically tidy up the assignments without the instructor having to do anything, and if I had a design that I wanted to live forever I could set the value to -1?