Fail to publish feature, missing description from exported/imported feature

stuart_robinson

i'm trying to publish this feature Variable Surface Text to add variable text to parts.  i found one that looked like it used to work so i took it as an featurescript exercise for myself and tweaked it so it works great for me now.  it's using "export import(...)" a feature called Surface Text

but it wont let me publish because Surface Text doesn't have a description 



removing the export doesn't work



i'm guessing this description annotation is a new requirement? can i give a description to an imported feature? or anything else i can do to publish?

i dont really understand why it has to be exported for me to use the enum parameter

_anton

Ah, looks like you're right, the exported feature doesn't have a description. This isn't ideal, but it's a limitation at the moment.

Do you actually need the separate value field? There are two options: you can right-click the string value field and convert it to an expression (like so: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/6dc4aecb038b8172e477a56b/w/93c85c5575b30feaaa16cfeb/e/f81e27b471d56bd846e08fae ), and evidently the Surface Text feature has a "Text is Expression" option.

jelte_steur814

Not a nice solution maybe, but if you'd make a copy of the feature you import/export into the same document, you'll be able to add a description to it.

stuart_robinson

@_anton wow i didn't know that - amazing thank you! 

@jelte_steur814 if i'm understanding you correctly, i think that wouldn't work here because i dont have access to the code for the feature in question

jelte_steur814

@stuart_robinson, ah yes, of course.