Simple example

Value of c calculated seperately

Would like to see the result of c here, i.e. c = 6

c is not available outside of scope of x

Real world example

For example, this would be useful in the instance below

Calculate Euler critical buckling stress

Being able to see value of λ aids understanding of F.oc

λ could be calculate seperately, such as:

Then:

Why I am trying to do this

However, I am trying to reuse standardised worksheets in place of functions because they enable me to do a couple of extra things. The actual calculation might look something like this:

Would like to see result of λ here

Both λ and F.oc are calculated in "Section Properties.sm"

Solution

Using the method suggested by Alvaro, we can pass global variables byref into the function:

Clear previous variables

Note: using the above syntax, the name of the function does not matter as is not reused, F.oc.beam.1 makes sense as it is the answer that the function block computes.

We can now calculate a second beam without the calculation from the first beam affecting it