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Building assemblies with design tables - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS 2016 Essential Training
Building assemblies with design tables
- In this example, I want to show how to build an assembly from multiple configurations of a individual part. Now, you can see I've got a two-by-four here, I've got drywall on either side of a wall which I have in a transparent state as well a door frame, and some trim around that door. Now, I'm only using a few different parts here, but I'm using multiple configurations that were created using a design table. Let's take a look at the two-by-four. On the top here, click on Open Part. Inside of that two-by-four, you can see I have a design table driving it, and I have a bunch of different configurations of that shape. Now, I don't want the shape itself to change. I want it to be a two-by-four or a inch-and-a-half by three-and-a-half, really, but I want the length to change, and I want that to automatically update, and I want to easily be able to add different cut lengths to that table. Right-click on Design Table, click on Edit Table, and you can see I'm only bringing in just the…
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