Please follow the format below for requesting a feature.
The problem that this feature will solve:
The ability for more complex formulas.
Brief description of the outcomes that you expect from this feature:
for designing something like a thread, there are a lot of value types shared across different formulas.
Currently I have to make multiple variables, one that’s a Number type and a matching one that’s a length type. This is because, to set the number of rotations of the thread, you need the length of the total bolt, and the thread pitch spacing, times 360. I can’t set this variable to angle type because there’s measurements in it so I have to set it as a number type.
If I made the previous variables before thinking about this mix of values, then I have to either make a new variable as a number but is the same as the measurements, or delete the original and make one as a number type instead of a measurement type.
What can’t you achieve without this feature?
It’s not blocking me, but we should have 1 of 2 (or both) options.
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The ability to use other variable types in any formula. Either a way within the formula to use the value as a simple number, or that it auto accepts it and uses the value as is but in a universal way.
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Allow the ability to change a previous type, to a new type. A long press and add a menu item to change the type. Or a selection of what values this variable is allowed to be used as (One or more)