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Query Variables: Complete tutorial
Query Variables are unbelievably useful, but kinda hard to learn, so I made a deep dive video to flatten the learning curve a bit. Hope it helps!
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This is a very useful video with great background AND detailed info - really helped me understand more about how to use Query Variables effectively.
Yep, awesome video as usual!
Awesome! Would love to see some examples of Query Variable in the context of Master Modeling, I feel it can be the backbone for really robust Master Models
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Fantastic video, Evan. I’m so glad I found your channel early in my OnShape journey. Your teaching style and content is spot-on for what I am looking for. I wish you great success with the channel.
Thanks, everyone! @adrian_vlzkz I like your thinking on this. I hope to one day create a very detailed top-down demo model and QVs will be part of that for sure.
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Let's gooo, @EvanReese is on a Tutorial Spree!
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Great video, Evan. Query variables are something we've been trying to figure out if they can address any of our needs, and it's been stumping us. The problem is since we have team members that are skilled in FeatureScript, it's be difficult to figure out what query variables can do for us that building a custom feature cannot. Once I get a chance to play around, I'm convinced that there will be some cool things we can do with custom features that produce query variables or ones that take query variables as parameters.
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It doesn't have to be either/or though. You could even just begin to modify your features to do what they already do, but also spit out some query variables of important things that can be operated on by downstream features. That way you could use native tools for certain parts of the workflow. But if you're using only your own custom features then I guess attributes can do the same thing for you.
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@chadstoltzfus I'm starting to use query variables (and my query variable+ feature) as a way to solve one-off problems that don't occur often enough to justify developing a custom solution to a problem. If people are using the same handful of steps in a workflow that's when I start to bake the logic into a tailored featurescript.
@EvanReese that's why I just pushed an update to Poly-Mate Connectors that allows you to define a QV directly in the feature so you can reuse the groups from it in any number of other features, whether they're standard library or custom features.
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