Chapter 10: Working with Part Configurations
FIGURE 10.4Creating a new configuration
Configuration properties and options ............................................................
The name of the config is important mainly for quick access and organization purposes. The con-
figuration description is also important, because it can display in the ConfigurationManager, and
even in the Assembly tree. (You can also use the FeatureManager Filter to search configuration
descriptions.) This is important when the name of the config is numerical rather than descriptive,
and you would like to also have a description but not include it in the name. The config descrip-
tion can also appear in place of the filename in the Assembly tree display. I discuss this in more
detail in Chapter 12. Config descriptions can be driven manually through the Configuration
Properties dialog box or through a design table if you have many configs to manage. You can dis-
play config descriptions through the RMB menu, as shown in Figure 10.5.