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Limitations to Variable Studio Importing

sasha_sklar
sasha_sklar Member Posts: 4 ✭
in Community Support
This is one of those "is this a bug" questions.

When insert a variable studio that's not in a folder that's an ancestor of the part studio I'm including it from, the variable don't work. The variable table shows up in the list just fine, but when I try to use  a variable from the table it doesn't show up in the auto complete list and it doesn't work if I type it in manually either. 

Answers

  • NeilCooke
    NeilCooke Moderator, Onshape Employees Posts: 6,097 image
    Could you capture a quick video to show the steps you took to get there? Not sure I understand “ancestor of the part studio”. Thanks. 
    Senior Director, Technical Services, EMEA
  • sasha_sklar
    sasha_sklar Member Posts: 4 ✭
    I created a new stripped down project to demonstrate the issue and I couldn't reproduce it there so I'm going to dig into what's happening more before I post the video of the project that's having the issue.

    By ancestor I meant the parent folder, it's parents and so on up to the root of the project.

    root
    |__folder
    |____subfolder
             - variable studio a
    |__anotherfolder
         - part studio b (variables from imported variable_studio_a aren't working here)


  • NeilCooke
    NeilCooke Moderator, Onshape Employees Posts: 6,097 image
    Ok I tried your example and also couldn’t reproduce so let us know if you see it again. 
    Senior Director, Technical Services, EMEA
  • _anton
    _anton Member, Onshape Employees Posts: 550 image
    Folders shouldn't affect Variable Studio imports. If you have (or recreate) a shareable example, we can debug.

    You can try to toggle the Variable Studio's "automatically inserted" button and see if that helps.

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