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Configurations and DriveWorksXpress · Lesson 2: Assembly configurations and design tables

Assembly variants, part and assembly design tables in Excel.

Lesson goal

Quickly create many variants from a table, for parts as well as assemblies.

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3 videos

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1 exercise

Intermediate

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Prerequisite: Lesson 1

1. Watch the videos

Dassault Systèmes videos hosted on MySolidWorks: they open in a new tab and a free account is enough. Watch them in order.

Assembly ConfigurationsVideo 1▶Assembly ConfigurationsTwo versions of an assembly and the advanced options for new components and mates.In French↗ Part Design TablesVideo 2▶Part Design TablesCreate many configurations by driving dimensions and suppression states from Excel.In French↗ Assembly Design TablesVideo 3▶Assembly Design TablesDrive components, mates and assembly features, with data validation.In French↗

2. Key takeaways

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In an assembly, a configuration can suppress components or call another configuration of a part.

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The advanced options decide whether new components and mates are suppressed in the other configurations.

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A design table is an Excel sheet: one row per configuration, one column per parameter.

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Excel data validation limits the values entered and prevents impossible configurations.

Tip

Rename the driven dimensions before creating the design table: the column headers become readable for the whole team.

3. Do the exercise

Open the part from lesson 1:

  • create a design table with five sizes
  • add a suppression column for a feature
  • insert the part into an assembly and create two configurations that call different sizes
✓To check: Add a row to the table: the new configuration appears in the ConfigurationManager.

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