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Best way to drive a filtered dropdown off a table? Solved

Six-level nested IF is getting unmaintainable. Looking for the cleanest table-driven pattern to filter the next control off the previous selection.

Rules & Logic 3 214Dana Ruiz · 2h ago
How are you handling ambiguous RFQs before the rules engine?

Customers send prose, not fields. Curious how people are pre-parsing an RFQ into a structured spec without the model inventing values.

AI Quoting 5 331Tom B. · 5h ago
solidworks-mcp: export a drawing per configuration? Solved

Trying to chain configure → export drawing across three sizes we quote. Is there a clean way to loop configurations through the MCP server?

MCP Servers 2 156Lena K. · 1d ago
Recommended folder structure for a new DriveWorks project?

Setting up our first real project. What conventions have held up for you over time — naming, groups, where you keep tables?

Getting Started 4 402Sam O. · 2d ago
Mass properties out of sync after suppress + rebuild

Reading mass right after a suppress sometimes returns the pre-rebuild value. Anyone else hitting this and forcing a rebuild first?

SOLIDWORKS / Inventor 6 288Priya N. · 3d ago
Pushing a priced quote into Epicor — REST or the DB?

Weighing the REST API vs a direct write for getting quotes back into Epicor. What has been more maintainable for you?

ERP & CRM 3 197Marcus D. · 4d ago
Diff view for rule changes between project versions

Would love a way to see exactly what moved in a rule between two versions — a proper diff instead of squinting at nested logic.

Feature Requests 2 143Erin C. · 6d ago