What’s New

• v 2.4 (April 2024)

  • Add _.compdesc: Component/Part description (Implemented by John Marsden)

  • Add _.partnum: Part number

  • Add _.configuration: Name of the current configuration. Autodesk feature support is still experimental.

• v 2.3.3 (January 2024)

  • Fix text size becoming 20 mm when doing “Save As”, by removing old fix for text height on text content change. (#29, #21)

• v 2.3.2 (January 2024)

  • Support for triggering update of text parameters from another script/add-in. (#54)

  • Link to documentation from the parameter dialog.

• v 2.3.1 (September 2023)

  • Workaround for Fusion 360™ bug when creating the edit dialog.

  • Update texts when the active Configuration changes. (#56)

• v 2.3.0 (February 2022)

  • Add _.newline

  • Add parameter.inchfrac

  • Text parameters based on sketch dimensions now also update when the sketch dimension is edited within the sketch.

  • Fix numbers showing with a very small error (e.g. 43 shown as 42.99999999). (#11)

• v 2.2.0 (June 2021)

  • Workaround for Fusion 360™ giving error when inspecting some selections, which broke the name tracking for _.component, _.file and _.sketch.

  • Do not show an add-in error when Compute All fails. Instead, show an error notification. (#9)

  • Workaround for missing document metadata (dataFile error). Force Fusion 360™ to download metadata. (#22)

  • Workaround for Fusion 360™ resetting text height on text content change. (#21)

  • Check if multiple copies of ParametricText has been installed (will only work for this version or newer).

  • Show error dialog for unhandled error when updating sketch text.

  • New documentation

• v 2.1.0 (March 2021)

  • Fix Fusion 360™ crash in non-parametric mode, by not calling Compute All in non-parametric mode.

  • Only run automatic Compute All if there are any text parameters that have been updated.

  • Text substrings using Python slice operator.

  • Add _.sketch

• v 2.0.0 (November 2020)

  • Rewritten selection engine.

    • Handle selection of texts in multi-occurrence components better.

    • “Inherit” sketch parameters when pasting using Paste New.

  • New parameter values: _.component, _.file

  • Storage format version 2, to handle the new selection engine.

  • Only one Undo item for text updates (not applicable to document save).

  • Show count of texts selected in each sketch.

  • Option to run Compute All automatically, to force features to update.

  • Detect missing thomasa88lib helper library.

  • Quick buttons for prepending braces and appending common parameters.

• v 1.1.0 (October 2020)

  • _.date for retrieving document save date.

  • Workaround for Fusion 360™ bug when using Autodesk® SHX fonts.

  • Informative error when a text has a negative angle.

  • Don’t re-evaluate texts when the Change Parameters dialog is closed without any changes.

  • Handle unit-less parameter values.

• v 1.0.1 (September 2020)

  • Fix error when using _.version in documents that have never been saved.

  • Redesign logo to comply with app store.

• v 1.0.0 (September 2020)

  • Out of beta!

• v 0.2.1 (September 2020)

  • Set table height to 10 rows.

  • Fix #1. Handle unsaved documents.

• v 0.2.0 (August 2020)

  • Basic support for Python format specifiers.

  • Insert braces button.

  • Selection tooltip, to show all selections when the text is truncated.

  • Hide “select control”. Integrate clear button into table.

  • Use correct unit/scaling when showing parameter value.

  • Quick reference in dialog.

• v 0.1.1 (August 2020)

  • Enable Run on Startup by default.

• v 0.1.0 (August 2020)

  • First beta release