It would be nice to have the option to show things like Packing Dimensions, Weight, CD, and Mass as sortable and filterable columns for the parachute parts library. I did take a look at the library source code, and it seems that some of these things get computed when the user adds one of these components to their model and others are direct atributes in the library.

The reason that this would be useful is that one could use this to optimize their selection criteria on these engineering parameters. For example finding the lightest solutions that provide the smallest packing while maintaining a constant CD*Area figure of merit.

That actually brings up another thought. That would be to allow custom expressions to create a figure or merit calculation in the selection tool, or at least include a figure of merit of CDArea. This figure of merit would be useful because the terminal velocity equation would then only have rocket mass as the remaining variable, whereas, CDArea are a function of the parachute all other aspects of drag being equal for the rocket. This would then allow the user to select their parachute on this figure of merit along with the other aspects such as packing volume, cost, etc.

Adam