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Re:FreeCAD Version 1.1 Released by acrophobic on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @06:20PM (#47524049)
You can also use VarSet[0], which I think is easier than spreadsheet since you don't have to switch the workbench.

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

Re:FreeCAD Version 1.1 Released by 2muchcoffeeman on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @07:29PM (#47524708)
Did not know about this. How do you see all the properties?
Re:FreeCAD Version 1.1 Released by hn92726819 on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @09:31PM (#47525694)
Just click the varset in the tree view and it lists them in the properties pane
Re:FreeCAD Version 1.1 Released by MegaDeKay on Wednesday March 25, 2026 @11:19PM (#47526297)
The downside of spreadsheets is they can really slow your model down. Every cell change triggers a full recompute of the 3D model. VarSets offer much faster performance while sacrificing a couple spreadsheet features. So always choose VarSets over spreadsheets if you can.
Re:FreeCAD Version 1.1 Released by regularfry on Thursday March 26, 2026 @04:54AM (#47528080)
On the one hand it's clearly suboptimal for any change, even ones that nothing depends on, to trigger a recompute. But also it feels like there's something a bit broken with spreadsheet dependency resolution in the first place. I've never been able to nail down a test case, but models seem to go over a performance cliff at a certain point. Ordinarily I'd put it down to something being unavoidably quadratic, but I've had cases where I'm certain that the same model is radically slower after being reloaded off disk.