Changing Variable Studio Variables in View Only

charlie_sutcliffe

Hello,

I am creating a parametric design for a "Rock'N'Roll Bed" for van conversions, and am hoping to publish it as an open source resource for anyone to customize for their build and export cut files. I have all my important dimensions driven by a variable studio, and am just now realizing view only users cannot edit those variables. My question is 1. How can I let people change these variables but not anything else in the document? and 2. Can I automatically generate drawings of parts that would update to reflect the changes caused by the new variables input by the user (and if so can the drawing dynamically change placements to avoid overlap?) Thanks a lot wizards, let me know. Here's a link to my document: https://cad.onshape.com/documents/c4553c52f764441bfe85385e/w/4d14743f9449701922715be3/e/56bcc4af8532f57f1c700da2?configuration=default&renderMode=0&rightPanel=variableTablePanel&uiState=67c74dd02bca82445e958bf8

MichaelPascoe

To allow users to change values without signing in, you will need to create configuration variables. You can then either use those configuration variables directly or you can put them into local variables to modify and condition them.

Here is an example of using configuration variables, see the inputs at the top left of the part studio:
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/1f304d414242dabc6eeafc50/w/f1d854ccd6b558dfdfa3aba5/e/a9864f4f609ce01618a3857f…

.

I recommend taking the Configuration learning pathway.

https://learn.onshape.com/learning-paths/onshape-configurations

.

To answer question 2, no, not really. Technically it may be possible using API, but that would require dev work.