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USE DERIVE FEATURE TO DERIVE PART STUDIO VARIABLES
shawn_crocker
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I was just thinking it would be very useful to be able to use the derive feature to also derive part studio variables in to another part studio. In my case, I often have a configured master part studio. I then derive parts from the master into other studios. I usually also configure the single part studio to drive the derived features configuration inputs. If I was able to derive certain variables in along with the part like we currently can with sketches and planes, I would be able to perform addition work on the derived part using the logic that came in with the derived variable. If we can derive sketches and planes, why stop the derive feature there. Why not allow deriving of variables? All this talk of global variables. This could sort of work just like global variables.
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Thanks so much! I completely assumed for some reason deriving variables would be out of bounds of featurescript.
I'm unsure how this feature works. I don't seem to be getting the variables coming in. I have checked the box and assigned a prefix but no variables are coming through.
Thanks for the response. In creating a sample document I discovered it was working. I think in my original attempt I may has accidentally included a space in the prefix or something.
Sorry to bother on an older thread like this, but I'm not quite sure how to derive variables with SuperDerive. I have no programming background and I attempted to use every variable prefix and suffix I could look up, but I couldn't figure out, on what basis I should name them in the SuperDerive feature to get access to my variables. Could you perhaps break there use down for me a bit in this context, I'd really appreciate the helping hand.
@ValNth As for as I remember, you don't actually have to use the preffix or suffix. You only need to use them if you know the studio you are deriving them into already contains variables that might be named the same as in the studio you are deriving from. So, I think all you need to do is include the variable and they come in as the same name as they were in the parent studio.
Thank you for the help! Turns out the problem was simpler than I expected.
First off, I simply assumed that super derive lets me select the created variables as entities to be derived and it didn't occure to me, that I just have to derive the studio and the variables will be there in the background automatically.
After that I just struggled a bit, because the exact ones I needed didn't appear, but after a good 20 minutes I realized, I just forgot to save a new version of the desired part studio, since I created those variables.
Couple of rookie mistakes, but now everything works as it's supposed to, so thank you once again!