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Creating custom configurations

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Creating custom configurations

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- [Instructor] Configurations are another great method to improve your performance when working in large assemblies or complex part files in Solid Works. Let's walk through an example I have here. I've downloaded a Mobile Folding Worktable offline from 3D ContentCentral, SolidWorks' website. I'm going to open it Resolved, and take a look at some of the custom configurations that I've placed in there. I can see it's taken a few moments to open up completely. I've got a lot of components in this file, all different part numbers. These happen to be from 8020. So you can see here at 3D ContentCentral, this is where I downloaded it, and it came zipped. So I haven't done anything to the part files, or the assembly. All I've done is added a bunch of different configurations. So now going back to Windows Explorer, I can see here that currently my file size is 3,184 kilobytes. I'm going to see if I can reduce that using configurations. So what I've done is try to separate it out into useful…

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