Smart Values (Early Access)
You can now add smart values to your projects in Easel. These are named values that you can add, reuse, and easily adjust across an entire project. Define a dimension once, apply it to elements in your designs, and change it in one place to resize all of the elements using that smart value.
This makes it easy to adapt a design to different scales or use cases: swap in a different material thickness, resize a box to new dimensions, or rework a layout for a new workpiece without editing every shape by hand.
How to Opt-In
Smart values are currently available to users who opt in for early access. Click the button to enable the feature to start using smart values in Easel today!
Viewing & Creating Smart Values
Open Project › Smart Values, or the { x } smart values button in the toolbar.
Each smart value can be a number or a mathematical expression, and expressions can reference other smart values — so you can build dimensions like width / 2 or frame + 2 * border. Two built-in smart values are always available: the workpiece's material thickness and bit width. These values will always be set to the thickness of the material in each workpiece, and the thickness of the primary bit in each workpiece.
Using Smart Values
To use smart values in your designs, select a volume and type a smart value's name into a dimension field, or pick it from the dropdown. You can then add inline additive /subtractive math for a one-off dimension on a specific volume.
When a smart value changes, every volume that uses it updates automatically.
You can chose how the shapes are transformed when smart values are updated. Shapes can be resized from their centers, as well as any of the four corners of the blue outlines that appear on the canvas when shapes are selected. To change the direction that shapes will resize, select from the five "dot" options in the top of the Shape settings.
Share what you make!
Smart values make it easy to design, update, and remake projects in Easel. Opt in today, use smart values on your next project, and share your feedback with our team. We can't wait to see what you make with this new update!