get name of feature

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  kevin_o_toole_1 Onshape Employees, Developers, HDM Posts: 565

  May 2018

  Unfortunately no. Our view is that changing the feature name should not cause a regeneration of the feature, and therefore feature functionality cannot depend on the feature name.
  
  You can, however, go the other direction and set the feature name through the feature. Check out how the Variable feature uses "Feature Name Template" and setFeatureComputedParameter(). You could imagine a user input which sets both the body name and the feature template name. Depending on your needs (and the needs of others who read this later), that could accomplish a similar goal.
  
  

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  Jake_Rosenfeld Moderator, Onshape Employees, Developers Posts: 1,646

  May 2018

  @billy2
  
  If you down Kevin's route and want to name the surfaces in your FS feature, you can do so with the `setProperty` function, using `PropertyType.NAME`:
  https://cad.onshape.com/FsDoc/library.html#setProperty-Context-map
  

  Jake Rosenfeld - Modeling Team

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  billy2 Member, OS Professional, Mentor, Developers, User Group Leader Posts: 2,014 PRO

  May 2018

  Thanks, I just want to associate the surfaces with the feature script that created them, I think I can get this to work.
  
  
  

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