T-FLEX Parametric CAD. Fundamentals. 2D Design

Editing External Variables
Variables
External variables are usually widely used in the T-FLEX CAD documents for organizing parametric
connection between assembly document and fragments, and also for organizing connection of the T-FLEX
CAD with other systems and applications.
For editing variables, marked as external, besides the variables editor, the command “M: Model
Parameters” can be used:
Keyboard Textual menu Icon
«Parameters|Model»
In contrast to the variables editor, only those variables of the current document which are marked as external
are displayed in this command. This command does not allow a user to create new variables. Thus, if there
are no external variables in the drawing, the message “No external variables” is produced and the
command is not called.
The kind of the dialog box used in this command depends on the attribute setting “Marked variable editor” in
the command “ST: Set Model Status” (the tab “Preferences”). This attribute can assume one of the
following settings:
• Internal Editor. Upon calling the command “М: Model Parameters”, the Variable Editor dialog
box comes up for editing external variables, that looks similar to the normal variable editor window;
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