Configurations inside of other configurations

[RBasniak]

Hello over there,

Now I'm having troubles with configurations, I need to create configurations inside of other configurations... is it possible to do in SW???

Regards,
Rodrigo Basniak
Curitiba, PR
Brazil

 

[SBaugh]

Rodrigo,

Yes you can! If I'm understanding you correctly

You can create part configurations, then use those parts inside of an assembly that has different configurations.

Ex:

Part 1 has configurations:
A, B, C
Assembly A has configurations:
1, 2, 3

Assembly A1 uses part A
Assembly A2 uses part B
Assembly A3 uses part C

It is probably (in my opinion) better to use a design table when you start getting into this kind of situtation. The property your going to have to use in a design table to call a certain part configuration is
&quot;$CONFIGURATION@component<instance>&quot;

Using the example above it would like like this when controlling a part in an assembly DT.
&quot;$CONFIGURATION@Part 1<1>&quot;

The column directly under that would be the config you wanted to use, A, B, or C. Scott Baugh, CSWP
George Koch Sons,LLC
Evansville, IN 47714
sjb@kochllc.com

 

[gbhensley]

Besides creating them within an assembly, is it possible to have configurations of a configuration of a part? This question has come up a lot lately at work. If anyone has any ideas please email me at brandon.hensley@i-cubed.com

 

[2Dto3D]

I send this reply once, but I came back later & didn't see it, so here it is again. Maybe I forgot to submit it, or something stupid like that.

Anyway...

gbhensley,

If what you need are subconfigurations - configurations of a configuration within one part or assembly model file, I believe Solidworks 2001plus will handle that when it's released. I attended a VAR demo of it last week, and if I understood correctly, this is one of the enhancements. In the meantime, hopefully the method Scott outlined above will work for you.

Charley Leonard
CSWP

http://www.2dto3d.com

 

[2Dto3D]

Oh! Duh! I see what I did now. I answered the same question in another forum (posted by the same person, too) recently & forgot that it wasn't this one. Mystery solved (see previous post).

Charley Leonard
CSWP

http://www.2dto3d.com