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Fixed issues and new features in Upchain 2025

Fixed issues and new features in Upchain are summarized here by date.

Upgrade the CAD plugin

You may download the latest CAD plugin version v25.7.0.0006 from the Plugins page immediately following the maintenance window. Upchain web is backward compatible with CAD plugin versions 25.6 and higher.

July 14, 2025

CAD plugin version: v25.7.0.0006

General

  • Tenant Admins are now able to delete translations from item versions regardless of item status. Learn more.
  • Introduced a security limit for generating BOM reports and creating projects. You are now restricted to generating a maximum of 30 BOM reports and 30 projects per minute.
  • Fixed an issue where Published documents reverted unexpectedly to Draft.
  • Fixed an issue where purchased parts could not be downloaded from the advanced search in the plugin.

Workflows

  • Fixed an issue where the Discard button was not shown on change notices for Tenant Admins when the 'Allow Workflow Cancellation' field was unchecked in the CN workflow configuration.

July 10, 2025

  • Restricted characters \/:*?\"<>| in item names are now replaced with an underscore ( _ ) in folder names created during bulk export.
  • Tenant Admins may now delete item versions even if they do not have attached CAD files. This removes the previous limitation that required CAD files to be attached to delete items.
  • Tenant admins are now able to delete items with configurations. Learn more.
  • The API for deleting items DELETE /v1/items/{itemId} has been upgraded to support deleting items with configurations.

June 30, 2025

Plugins

  • It is now mandatory to upgrade your CAD, Office, and Outlook plugins to their latest version (25.6).

June 16 2025

CAD plugin version: 25.6.0.0005

Plugins

CAD

  • Fixed an issue where the IDW drawing was not checked in with the model when the model had suppressed children.

General

  • Added support for AutoCAD 2026.
  • Details related to your name, contact information, and job on your profile page in the web application is now read-only. You must make any desired changes in your Autodesk Personal Info page.
  • You are now able to export a flat BOM of an item in an Excel file by selecting More Actions > Export > Export flat BOM. The report aggregates identical items into one row, where the quantity attribute is calculated based on the parent quantities. All item attributes are populated for each item, excluding any eBOM item properties. Learn more.
  • Added a validation on the web application to check that you have the latest version of the eBOM loaded before you are able to modify eBOM attributes.
  • Improved the error message so that it now clearly indicates when multiple ongoing change notices (CNs) involve the same item.
  • Item BOM sequence in change notices now matches the BOM structure.

Administration

  • Tenant Admins are now able to regenerate DWG and PDF translations on released items. This option is accessed for an item in More options > Admin > Regenerate Translation. To enable this option, the tenant property drawing.populate.title.block.code should be enabled. Learn more.
  • Tenant properties previously hidden from Tenant Admins are now visible providing more control over your tenant without the need to contact Autodesk Support. Learn more.
  • Tenant Admins are now able to clear eBOM structural locks in addition to the existing lock types, provided the item is not part of any active change request. Learn more.
  • For security measures, the tenant property license.key.sw.doc.mgr has been removed from Administration, and cannot be fetched from API either.

APIs

  • Enhanced permission checks for API endpoint api/division/v1/divisions. Now, only Tenant Admins can create new divisions using this API.

June 12 2025

General

  • Updated the APIs /v1/items/{itemId}/files/{fileId}/versions and /v1/items/{itemId}/files/{fileId}/versions/{fileVersionId} to support deleting translations regardless of the item's status. This change can only be performed by Tenant Admins and is written to the item's history.

May 21 2025

CAD plugin version: 25.5.0.0007

May 20 2025

CAD plugin version: 25.5.0.0006

Plugins

CAD

  • Restricted users are now unable to see item details or expand assembly structures of items that do not belong to their projects in the plugin.

General

  • Improved performance of document uploading for projects with large numbers of documents.
  • Improved performance of the Export to Excel functionality.
  • When uploading a document to the Specification Documents section of an item, we have updated the document upload window to show "Add Documents" and "Browse for documents…" to accurately reflect the intended action.
  • Changed the default view format for drawings from DWG to PDF. Now, when you select View > Drawing, the PDF translation is opened by default. Learn more.
  • Enhanced the performance of loading PDF document previews for a smoother and faster experience.
  • Added support for SolidWorks 2025.
  • Fixed an issue where DWG/PDF translations were not generated after check-in for specific files located outside the home folder.
  • Fixed an issue where imported translation names did not follow the naming rule set in tenant properties if the files had a lowercase extension.
  • Restricted users can no longer see projects they are not part of in the Where Used section of an item's details.
  • Fixed an issue where the Reject button on investigation requests in the web app was missing, preventing you from rejecting IRs even though the "Allow Workflow Cancellation" option was enabled in the workflow settings.
  • Documents that exist in categories marked as unchangeable on released items can no longer be moved.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented you from setting the Out-Of-Office date to the following year.

Administration

  • Tenant admins are now able to update the status of an item version from 'Pending' to 'Development'. The item must not have any locks and must have the 'Pending' status. The status change is recorded in the item history. Learn more.

API

  • Improved the /api/effective-date/v1/bom-trees/{id}/attributes endpoint to ensure all attributes are correctly populated.

May 8 2025

API

  • Introduced a new API endpoint POST /api/bom-service/v1/item/{itemId}/status to update the status of an item version to 'Development'. The item must not have any locks and must have the 'Pending' status. This endpoint only supports this specific status change and may only be invoked by Tenant Admins. The status change is recorded in the item history.

April 14 2025

CAD plugin version: 25.4.0.0007

Plugins

CAD

  • Fixed an issue where PDF translations of SolidWorks drawings were generated incorrectly.
  • Fixed an issue where BOM anomalies were not saved correctly during the Copy-Clone action.

API

  • Introduced a new API /api/ecn/v1/ecns/{ecnNumber}/archive to archive change notices. Only CNs that have reached the Stop primitive of their workflow can be archived, and after a CN is archived it is no longer shown on the dashboard and in advanced search results. This API can only be called by Tenant Admins and this action is documented in the activity stream.
  • Added a new endpoint POST /api/bom/v1/parts/versions, which receives the part number parameter in the request body. That way, part numbers can now contain special characters. This endpoint functions the same as GET /api/bom/v1/parts/{partnumber}/versions, but the only difference is that it takes the part number from the request body.

General

  • Enabled the option to sort by Creation Date for Quick Search results under the BOM section in the web app.
  • Workflow attributes such as primitive Name, Description, and Notes can now contain special characters without encoding.
  • Fixed an issue where markups could not be sent to an investigation request or downloaded if they contained Chinese/Japanese/Korean characters.
  • Tenant Admins are now able to import drawings and translations for items in the Approval Pending state.
  • Electrical Package items part of an active change request now follow the rules of an eBOM structural lock and cannot be checked in.
  • Introduced an Archive function in the change notice details pane to archive change notices from the web app. Only CNs that have reached the Stop primitive of their workflow can be archived, and after a CN is archived it is no longer shown on the dashboard and in advanced search results. This action can only be performed by Tenant Admins and this action is documented in the activity stream. Learn more.

April 9 2025

  • Introduced new keyboard shortcuts to navigate between pages in the PDF Viewer. Learn more.

March 20 2025

General

  • Introduced the new PDF viewer. This new viewer provides a unified user experience for drawing and non-CAD file viewing and markup creation. Click to learn more.

March 17 2025

CAD plugin version: 25.3.0.0002

General

  • Unfinished tasks in workflows that aren't Cancelled or Completed are now closed automatically during the Stop primitive and their status is set to Cancelled, to prevent any invalid tasks at the end of the workflow.
  • After a translation has been replaced, the PDF viewer now shows the updated version instead of the previous one.
  • Fixed an issue in the web application where the incorrect user was shown as the user who holds the BOM edit lock.

Plugins

CAD

  • Fixed an issue where the eBOM edit locks were not removed after canceling the BOM Wizard.

API

  • Changed the implementation of the API endpoint /api/workflow/v1/workflows so it doesn't return deleted workflows.
  • Introduced a new API /api/project/v2/projects/{projectId}/status to update a project's status to one of the following states: CLOSED, ARCHIVED or CLOSED_FOR_SUBMISSION. This API can only be called by Tenant Admins and this action is documented in the activity stream.
  • Fixed the endpoint /api/effective-date/v1/bom-trees/{id}/attributes so that it returns correct attribute values.

February 18 2025

CAD plugin version: 25.2.0.0026

Administration

  • Introduced a new feature that enables Tenant Administrators to mark users as "Restricted Users," allowing them to access only the projects they have been assigned to. Restricted users will have full functionality within their assigned projects but will be unable to see, open, or work on projects they are not assigned to.

Plugins

CAD

  • All users, regardless of their role, may now check in CAD items even when the item is locked in a change request, irrespective of the drawing.create.pdf and drawing.create.dwg properties. If these properties are enabled, the version of the translations and drawings will also be incremented by one.
  • Reinstated the fix where the item type icon would be grayed out on the left side of the BOM wizard when the item was removed from the eBOM.
  • Improved the Find Item functionality so that the BOM Wizard doesn't show misleading information.

EXCEL

  • Fixed an issue where the BOM was not exported correctly using the Excel plugin.

API

  • Improved performance of the API endpoint /api/bom/v1/project/{projectId}/part_version/{partVersionId}/ebom when fetching data for large assemblies.

January 20 2025

CAD plugin version: 25.1.0.0003

Plugins

CAD

  • The fix for the issue where the item type icon would be grayed out on the left side of the BOM wizard when the item was removed from the eBOM is temporarily disabled.

Interface

  • Fixed an issue where the selected project context would be lost after performing an advanced or quick search for items that belonged to different projects.
  • Introduced a new function to enable Tenant Administrators to replace missing drawing translations. See Replace a drawing translation for more information.

General

  • Security updates.

January 16 2025

Interface

  • Introduced a new window that shows detailed information on the history of actions performed on the selected item and the history of actions performed on all previous item versions with the same item number. See History tab for more information.

January 8 2025

CAD plugin version: 24.8.0.0008

Plugins

CAD

  • Fixed an issue where the CAD plugin would fail to download assemblies with more then 50000 components.
  • Fixed a visual issue where changing anomalies in the BOM wizard would cause the item type to change in the BOM wizard user interface.
  • Fixed an issue where the item type icon would be grayed out on the left side of the BOM wizard when the item was removed from the eBOM.

Workflow

  • Removed GPS-related tasks from the System primitive in change request workflows.

General

  • Optimized the process of fetching project members in the Web.
  • Significantly optimized the process of reassigning tasks in the Administration > Users page.
  • Security updates.

API

  • Created a new endpoint to assign a substitute item (POST request): /api/bom/v1/substitute-items/{primaryVersionId}/secondaryversionid/{secondaryVersionId}. When executed, the item version assigned with secondaryVersionId will be added as a substitute item of an item version assigned with primaryVersionId.

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