Can Custom Properties set by FeatureScript be numbers?

Sam_Schlageck

I have a "Quantity" custom property that populates a field in our drawings to indicate how many panels of a certain size need to be fabricated.


I would like to drive that "Quantity" property with a variable from a variable studio - however when I set up my FeatureScript to assign the variable I keep getting this error message - unless I set up the "QTY" variable as a string

Is it possible for FeatureScript to assign numbers to custom properties - or can it only do strings?

_anton

According to the docs (https://cad.onshape.com/FsDoc/library.html#setProperty-Context-map), the value of a custom property must be a string. Can you use stringToNumber on the receiving end?

Caden_Armstrong

Hey Sam,

setting an integer custom property with featurescript is a bit unintuitive, you have to convert the number to a string in order to set it. But the value will be an integer when you look at it in your custom properties.

I have a sample here:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/442da55b8784fa545559a439/w/ff690aea9b839abc2f34fde7/e/ab381bcc8f8e10e1af663ecc

You can see that wrapping the quantity variable with toString() is all it takes to make it work.

Sam_Schlageck

I did a "toString(QTY)" value for the custom property value - works!

Thanks for your help!