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Selecting component configurations in an assembly

Selecting component configurations in an assembly - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Selecting component configurations in an assembly

- In this example we're going to be creating an assembly of all the same part except each part is going to be a different configuration and I'm going to show you how easy it is to switch between different configurations, building an assembly. First, before we get to that, I want to point out this part here. It looks a lot like a LEGO and that's my example, so if you look here I have a boss extrude number one. I've got a boss extrude two and then I have a linear pattern. I want that pattern to automatically adjust based upon the size of the LEGO. Now I've used the design table to go ahead and create multiple configurations of this brick. So if I click on half brick, it's half the size. It changes color. Got a long brick. I've got a wide brick. I've got a single brick and a thin brick. Bunch of different options here, and you can see the brick gets bigger or smaller and thinner or thicker as well as the amount of little pegs on the top also increases. So I've used a quick little…

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