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formula's a great feature
joris_kofman
Member Posts: 59 ✭✭
Hello All
i now realise that most of this is already mentioned in the october 12 improvement post, but i can not delete this post.
Just last evening i saw the new variable feature in the part studio, it works just great. I especially like the feature based approach this is a rather clever way of getting around the whole circular reference problem.
Further improvements could be:
1. renaming a variable without breaking other variable definitions where the variable is used
2. mathematical functions such as round, sine, cosine, tangent
3. allow other parts to inherit variables through the derive function
i now realise that most of this is already mentioned in the october 12 improvement post, but i can not delete this post.
Just last evening i saw the new variable feature in the part studio, it works just great. I especially like the feature based approach this is a rather clever way of getting around the whole circular reference problem.
Further improvements could be:
1. renaming a variable without breaking other variable definitions where the variable is used
2. mathematical functions such as round, sine, cosine, tangent
3. allow other parts to inherit variables through the derive function
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Comments
On the topic of "Round" and such functions: I recall having to do serious wrangling to persuade Solidworks to report the total tonnage of concrete for a major project (a hydro-electric generation facility) to an appropriate level of implied accuracy.
A top level assembly drawing which tells the client they will need to make provision for 1,458,237 tonnes of concrete looks as though it was prepared by idiots, or freshly graduated (not very well educated) kids.
What such a drawing *needs* to show, particularly in the proposal stages, is something like (say) 1,460,000 tons, AND it needs to automatically update to 1,520,000 tonnes after a partial redesign.
I'm not suggesting that this capabilty should be available explicitly, as a "Number of significant digits" function, but we need sufficient implementation of Excel-like functions to be able to set this sort of thing up with a simple line of code in an output variable definition.... hopefully a little less clunkily than in SW!
round(2.3 + #x) * cos(30 deg)both in variable definitions and things like dimensions. Just be sure to use correct units. We will be improving usability of some of this stuff also.I posted a more complete list here: https://forum.onshape.com/discussion/comment/1316/#Comment_1316