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What are Best Practices, regarding Variable Table vs Variable Studio ?
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Re: What are Best Practices, regarding Variable Table vs Variable Studio ?
Variable Studios are meant to provide a robust mechanism to share variables between tabs and documents. Part Studios, Variable Studios, and Assemblies can import from Variable Studios. (Part Studios can also define their own variables: you can imagine that a variable may not be useful outside a Part Studio, so you keep it… -
Re: What are Best Practices, regarding Variable Table vs Variable Studio ?
It appears that the Variable Studio names and values shows up (at the top) as part of the Variable Table (tab on the right of Part Studio) so does that mean any variable with the same name below overrides the Variable Studio value? Also, it appears that new variable can be created it the top section (Variable Studio… -
Re: What are Best Practices, regarding Variable Table vs Variable Studio ?
For most purposes, you can just use the variable table panel in a Part Studio or Assembly. The only nuance here is that you may have imported only a subset of variables from a Variable Studio, in which case the table won't show you the rest. And yep, the override rules are as you describe (note the info icon next to the…
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