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Working with configurations

Working with configurations - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Working with configurations

- [Instructor] Configurations allow you to have multiple versions of the same file. Over here, you can see we've got this block with several different cuts cut through the part. If I head over here to the Feature Manager at the top, if I go two tabs over, you can see I'm at the Configuration Manager. Okay, at Configuration Manager, let's go ahead and click on that icon at the top. Right click, and say Add Configuration. I'm going to call this one Configuration Number Two, click on okay, and here's my new configuration. Now I can easily switch between the configurations by just double clicking. So you can see here I'm on the Default Configuration, double click again and I'm back to Configuration Number Two. But you notice the Model didn't change at all. And that's because we actually haven't made any changes. So let's go ahead over here to the Feature Manager, and I'm a come up to this Cut Extrude Number One, which is that triangular cut and I'll just go ahead and Suppress that cut…

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