This video shows user modifying and verifying the variables on a functional component.
Once the component is placed in OpenBridge Modeler the variables can be modified in a similar way.
Does not seem this is shipped with the latest Open Bridge Designer. The demonstration is for PennDOT bridge Type 2 abutment, seems correct, however, the one came with Open Bridge with the same name is for Type 1 Abutment.
"For now you can turn off the Display setting if you don't want to see all the variables."
Apologies, but I think that you are missing the point. This will only make the FC more difficult to use. Unless you generated it, you will struggle to understand what variable to manipulate to get what you want. You jsut end up wasting time 'flexing' each variable to understand whether it does what you need. Totally bad UX.
"Also the component must be developed/built with the end use / goal in mind. No point assigning variables to every dimension if they are unlikely to change on the project."
Again, this is a problematic way to think about the way variables are used. You can never tell what variables will be needed before hand, when you are making the FC. AFAIK, there is no way to unhide the Variables once the FC is made and inserted into the dgn.
Good suggestions!
For now you can turn off the Display setting if you don't want to see all the variables.
Also the component must be developed/built with the end use / goal in mind. No point assigning variables to every dimension if they are unlikely to change on the project.
Nice enhancement. But, the vid does highlight the need to provide means to tame the long list of parameters that you typically end up with. Some thing that ACAD users have complained about when using Dynamic Blocks, introduced more than 13 years ago. Also mentioned during the Connect beta period... going back four years ago?