Configurations inside of other configurations

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

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

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

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