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Datetimes in FeatureScript?
maxwell_smart
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I do a lot of 3D print prototyping with onshape, and I've started to heavily use the convert to expression feature in sketch text elements.
I was wondering if there is a way to also include the current date/time in that so if I have a bunch of parts I know what the newest one is.
I realize this might be hard on the kernel because it would need to be re-evaluated every change (iiuc). I feel like something might be possible where it is delayed until export, which is the only time I'd really need to have the datetime actually part of the model.
Thanks
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I'm pretty sure there's a deliberate avoidance of any functionality that could make a part regenerate differently with the exact same inputs, so I don't expect you'll ever have this as a live thing, but I could imagine it as a "click to update" kind of situation. Best I've got for now is to make a variable feature with a string of the date and update that manually. It would at least populate to all of the places it's used in that model. There is likely also a way to do it via the API, but I don't know enough about that.
Thanks! yeah that was basically how I was going to do a workaround.