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Lukas_Skywalker • yesterday at 9:49 PM • 3 replies • view on HN

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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aib • yesterday at 11:14 PM

VarSets[0] introduced recently in 1.0 and mentioned in a grand-aunt comment are a good alternative to spreadsheets used this way.

[0]: https://wiki.freecad.org/Std_VarSet

_whiteCaps_ • yesterday at 9:57 PM

https://wiki.freecad.org/Macro_EasyAlias

EasyAlias macro maybe?

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jjkaczor • yesterday at 9:57 PM

Hmmm - I seem to recall there was at least 1-2 scripts or macros available to help with aliasing.