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Pass Boolean through FS dialog
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At present you cannot pass a boolean through a feature script dialog, this is ideal if you want to hide a feature in certain configurations (rather than forcing them to fail which seems an odd workaround to me).
Something like:
Something like:
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: inherit; font-size: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">annotation { "Name" : "My Boolean Variable" } </span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: inherit; font-size: inherit; white-space: pre-wrap;">definition.myBooleanVariable is booleanVariable;</span>A current workaround is to pass the variable name in as a string (without "#") and then check if it is a boolean and so on but is not very intuitive as you want to include the "#" but that stops it working.
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If your partstudio contains a variable that is a boolean such as "#Showitem = false" you cannot pass this boolean value into featurescript (as far as I can see).
A boolean input as you state is a checkbox, you cannot assign a variable value or a formula to it.
The only workaround I have found is to us a string query and pass the boolean name in as text, then you can use the use "getVariable" within FS to check the value i.e.
pass in "Showitem" without the "#" and then do a check to see what if anything was passed in:
This is a messy workaround as you instinctively want to put the variable name when you type it with the "#" but I cannot find a way of removing that within featurescript.
But you may want to consider just using a normal checkbox for your feature and then using configurations to toggle it rather than variables:
https://www.onshape.com/videos/introducing-onshape-configurations
https://cad.onshape.com/documents/57acdfaae4b005c413ed9b6f/w/3fd585a46d3af1b3ba413c53/e/b02ec721136c6121c1a02cc1
Configurations are perfect for most applications but don't suit this particular case.