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Improvement Request: Change a variable scope
ross_pettinger
Member Posts: 6 ✭
When working on a part I often create variables that I later find would have been better defined in a variable studio or as a configuration variable. I think it would be nice if I could select a variable and change it to a configuration variable, a variable table, or a part studio — options would depend on where the variable is currently defined.
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If you decide something that you've made a variable in a Part Studio should have actually been in a Variable Studio, just make the Variable Studio and create the a variable with the same name. Then back in the Part Studio delete the local one.
@GregBrown Thank you for the feedback. I experimented with your suggestion and it does work.
For anyone else that reads this, it seems a variable in a Part Studio feature tree has precedence over a Configuration Variable in the Part Studio and a Configuration Variable in a Part Studio has precedence over a variable in a Variable Studio. If you delete a variable and there is another variable with the same name "visible" the measurement(s) will use that variable. Adding a new variable can "hide" or be "hidden" by another variable. I don't know if this is all documented someplace else, but this is what I found.
A right-click and select a new scope would still make things easier, but the suggestion by @GregBrown works and is easy enough.