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gligorot • yesterday at 9:38 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

The Fusion implementation sucks. A spreadsheet is a far more natural way to do this, Im surprised FreeCad is doing it better than the paid variant.

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Lukas_Skywalker • yesterday at 9:49 PM

The only issue I have with the Spreadsheet is that I need to add an alias for every value I want to use in the Sketch or Part Design workbench. In practice, this usually looks like

    A       B
    width   2mm
    length  3mm
and for every cell in B I add an alias with the same value as in column A. Is there a way around that?
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sho_hn • yesterday at 9:40 PM

The Fusion implementation is awful - you can adjust one variable, one time, then you have to reopen the dialog to do another. At least for me it's always become non-responsive after a single edit, for years now. I've always assumed I'm just holding it wrong, but I don't know. I've moved on.