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Selecting component configurations

Selecting component configurations - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial

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Selecting component configurations

- [Instructor] For this movie, I want to show you how we can create an Assembly of multiple parts that all happen to be the exact same part, just different configurations of that part. So right over here you can see I've got the Configuration Manager opened up. And I've got a LEGO brick here on my screen, and if I click on the default, it switches to a different color. If I switch to a different half brick, you can see I've got a whole bunch of different versions of LEGOs inside of this part. So if I switch over here to this long and wide brick, you can see we've got a whole bunch of these little dots at the top here, which connect the bricks together. Now one thing I do want to point out, how I created all these configurations. Now obviously the base of the block's pretty simple to do because I can just drive those dimensions very easily from Design Table. However what about these little pins here at the top? How do we…

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