Not everything can refer to a spreadsheet cell for a value.
That is particularly infuriating when dealing with axis, roofs, windows, and a god knows what else.
While most of the world is metric, some portions aren't. Using a spreadsheet (which converts to metric internally) as a source of values means that I normally don't care; I can input my measurements in feet/inches/whatever and the cell has the conversion to mm without any work on my part.
That's really nice, by the way. It also induces me to put a particular value in exactly one place and have other stuff refer to that place; I'd think that's something a parametric model would want in the first place.
But other rather useful things in FreeCAD only work with metric values and neither allow me to refer to a spreadsheet cell nor allow me to enter formulas on the fly.
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Re: Major FreeCAD PITA
Please describe in detail what is missing - if you hope for improvement.word censored wrote: ↑Sun Aug 18, 2019 1:09 am But other rather useful things in FreeCAD only work with metric values and neither allow me to refer to a spreadsheet cell nor allow me to enter formulas on the fly.
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Re: Major FreeCAD PITA
Also, pay particular attention to items 4 and 5 in the first post here:word censored wrote: ↑Sun Aug 18, 2019 1:09 am But other rather useful things in FreeCAD only work with metric values and neither allow me to refer to a spreadsheet cell nor allow me to enter formulas on the fly.
http://forum.freecadweb.org/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=2264
(Because you chose for your username an alias for "word censored", I'm not sure that I should take you seriously)
Re: Major FreeCAD PITA
Didn't catch that. Thanks for the Craniums Above (bad attempt at: heads up )
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You're welcome. If you didn't already know, jmaustpc did send me a related PM about automatically redacting a few inappropriate words.