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Re:CADing and 3D printing like a software engineer by Klaster_1 on Monday December 16, 2024 @02:49AM (#42428873)
Have you tried the new VarSet in 1.0? I found it more ergonomic than the old spreadsheet approach. With a formulas first approach, I find the modeling flow more controllable. Come to think about it, it starts to resemble a view/model arrangement I am used as a frontend dev.
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Re:CADing and 3D printing like a software engineer by throw646577 on Monday December 16, 2024 @05:47AM (#42429858)
VarSet has an incomplete GUI but you're right it's a better fit; it has fewer massive recalculation bombs than the Spreadsheet approach (and it can still AFAIK work as an interface to a configuration table sheet).

The Spreadsheet module is awesome (particularly configuration tables, which I used even in one of my first serious designs) but I still don't really know why my model has to recalculate because I changed the background colour in a cell. That seems to me to be unnecessarily deep integration.

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