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zero length parameter?

adamohernadamohern Member, OS Professional Posts: 216 PRO
It appears that zero length parameters are not allowed. Is that true? I realize I could use a boolean value or something to effectively zero out (and remove) the length, but this adds an extra control that I'd rather not have cluttering up my UI. Is there a way to add a zero length that I'm just not seeing?

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  • kevin_o_toole_1kevin_o_toole_1 Onshape Employees, Developers, HDM Posts: 565
    If you use the standard LENGTH_BOUNDS, it looks like yes, zeros are forbidden in the UI.

    However, there's more bounds available in the valueBounds module. If you replace LENGTH_BOUNDS for a particular parameter with NONNEGATIVE_ZERO_INCLUSIVE_LENGTH_BOUNDS or even NONNEGATIVE_ZERO_DEFAULT_LENGTH_BOUNDS then zeros are golden. You can also make your own LengthBoundSpec if you have more particular needs.

    The docs on LENGTH_BOUNDS actually looks wrong now (It say it allows zero, but that's only true when you call the feature within FS, not in the UI). I'll fix.

  • adamohernadamohern Member, OS Professional Posts: 216 PRO
    Ahh, okay. I was defining my own LengthBoundSpec, but a user error was keeping it from working. Your reassurance that it should work made me take a second look, hence finding the problem. Thanks.
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