access variable context of another feature

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• kevin_o_toole_1 Onshape Employees, Developers, HDM Posts: 565

  May 2016 edited May 2016

  You can assign variables to the context with setVariable and retrieve them with getVariable. Note that these values can also be accessed by a user using #varName
  
  You can also attach data to entities as attributes.
  
  For your case, I'd probably use setVariable and getVariable using the featureId to store the relevant data.
  

  if (isTopLevelId(id))
  {
      setVariable(context, id[0] as string, data);
  }

  
  Note the isTopLevelId check. If any variable-setting features get patterned, they'll have nested ids which fail the check, and also won't be selectable via feature pattern.
  
  

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• adamohern Member, OS Professional Posts: 216 PRO

  May 2016

  What about accessing a query from the definition of the other feature? Is that possible?

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• ilya_baran Onshape Employees, Developers, HDM Posts: 1,248

  May 2016

  If the feature stores the query, sure.  Otherwise (for like the query input to an extrude feature), not yet, but I would like it to be accessible.

  Ilya Baran \ VP, Architecture and FeatureScript \ Onshape Inc

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