Better way to enter length formulae in Dimension input box?

tom_auger

Hi folks! Hope everyone is still keeping safe. Question that's been bugging me of late as I work with variables and expressions driving sketching dimensions.

Take a look at the attached screenshot. Picture says it all. It's getting pretty hard to type these things when I only have a 20-character window to do it in.

john_mcclary

There is an improvement request somewhere for this.

One of the work arounds is to copy it into notepad, work on the equation there, then paste back into Onshape

marcus_bernstein

Sometimes I'll create long variable names then shorter (think acronym) variable names equal to the longer named variables. Isn't pretty and probably inefficient in several ways, but beats mashing the arrow through several layers of variable names going to one dimension. Sometimes I make a new variable that holds some of the calculations then I do more calculations with the new variable in the dimension, but that's just spreading the problem across more limited character windows. 

john_mcclary

There is an improvement request somewhere for this.

One of the work arounds is to copy it into notepad, work on the equation there, then paste back into Onshape

tom_auger

john_mcclary said:

One of the work arounds is to copy it into notepad, work on the equation there, then paste back into Onshape

The horror.

john_mcclary

never said it was pretty...