CAD that doesn't suck at parametric strings
tl,dr: What CAD package allows me to use string variables and edit them outside of the software?
I would like to edit a bunch of string variables outside of CAD (Excel or Google Sheets), then import them into CAD to create text geometry.
This way I can have a template for a part, in this case some wall art, and create custom designs without needing to do much.
Inventor does this kind of. You can't import string variables directly into Inventor, but you can create an iPart and assign all the manually-created string parameters as iPart variables. Then you edit the iPart table via Excel and copy-paste your data.
It's cumbersome and breaks often. It requires a lot of data validation since the data often does not parametrically change. It isn't as automatic since you have to create the variables inside the program.