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Selecting component configurations

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Selecting component configurations

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- [Instructor] In this movie we're going to be looking at creating an assembly of multiple configurations of the same, exact part. Now on the screen here I have got a Lego that I designed and you can see if you go over here to configuration manager we've got a whole bunch of different configurations of the same part. So I have a half brick. I've got a long one, I've got a long and wide one. I've got a single brick as well as a thin brick. So bunch of different options, for a bunch of different configurations of the same exact part. Now if you look at the difference between this one here and maybe this long and wide one, you can see there's a whole bunch more of these posts on this version here so, we want the number of posts to automatically adjust as I change the size of the brick. And I'm going to show you a quick little trick on how to do that. Let's go over here back to the feature manager. Come down here to equations. Right-click on equations and say manage equations. Alright so…

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