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Using configurations in variable studios
euan_dykes
Member Posts: 39 PRO
I was led to a trap. I kind of assumed I could have a variable studio drive several Part Studios and that I could later make configurations of the variable studio. Then I discovered to make configs I have to disable this Insert into all Part Studio feature.
For example.
I have document I am trying to show the state between being broken or not.
I have 3 Part Studios that are being driven by this Variable Studio.
For my demonstration purposes I can delete the configuration table and just manually change the 100 to 30.
Is there a reason a configuration can't be inserted into all?
This seemed like an intuitive way of working and yet I'm trapped.
Maybe I'm missing some philosophy part of Onshape here.
Answers
The only thing that is disabled is the Automatic insertion into ALL tabs in the document (all Part Studios and Assemblies).
Once you have a configured Variable Studio - you can then add it manually to all the places you need to use it (both Part Studios and Assemblies).
I have no idea WHY this is so, but have been able to use this method to drive configured part studios and assemblies - and you can (of course) configure which configuration of the Variable Studio in the Part Studios…
@romeograham the reason we can't automatically add configured variable studios to all tabs is we don't know which config to add. Adding the default config would be wrong more often than not and we think a manual step is preferable to having the wrong variable values with no warning.
I think @euan_dykes was hoping to be able to just change the variable studio configuration and have all the parts update to use the currently configured values. It's not an unreasonable mis-understanding but not the intended way this has been designed (i.e. you select what configuration is used at the point where you "import" it rather than "push" the configuration information to child tabs).
@euan_dykes, if that's what you wanted to do, the solution is to create two variable studio, one that has the configurations and isn't used directly in the part studios, and then another one that is automatically inserted and just import the configured one. If you edit the imported one to change which configuration gets imported, then you will get all the part studios to update. The downside is that you don't get a configuration input to select from.