Autocomplete for objects usable in formulas

It would be nice if the formula fields had an autocomplete feature for when writing the different symbols. So if I want to write a formula in the dialog box then I could write “@” and I could then have a dropdown showing me the measurements I have defined in the template for the pattern.

This becomes imediately helpful when I want to use a line object for a formula. As far as I see at the moment, line objects can not be given a title because the line objects are actually defined by their name which makes it difficult having to go back and forth to read the line names and reference them in the formula.

I know that if I click on the “fx” button I get the formula builder dialgoue which would do the same thing so the functionality already exists. My suggestion is intended for making the application workflow streamlined even more.

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How is adding more duplicate code making it more streamlined?

BTW… you can use the context menu of an object to copy the length or angle variable, but you have it use with care as what you copy may not be valid for the the formula you paste it into.

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I don’t know about duplicate code, that’s up to implementation choices :slight_smile: I’m suggesting from my perspective as a user that there would be an auto completion possibility when imputing variable names, similar to how an IDE suggests variable names when imputing keywords.

Whether or not that results in duplicated code is an implementation decision as far as I see.

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