SolidWorks 2010 Bible

Part II: Building Intelligence into Your Parts

Dividing down what might otherwise be a large design table into several Table Views helps to keep

your data organized and easy to access. Figure 10.10 shows the ConfigurationManager of a part

with configurations managed with Table Views.

FIGURE 10.10

Displaying Table Views in the Configuration Manager of a configured part

Using the Modify Configurations dialog box ...........................................................

The second nice option added in SolidWorks 2010 to the Modify Configurations dialog box is the
Hide/Show Custom Properties option. When this button is depressed, the Modify Configurations
dialog shows columns for existing custom properties, as well as a drop-down list that enables you
to add more custom property columns. This makes it very easy to control configuration specific
custom properties within a configured part.

Figure 10.11 shows these tools in action.

FIGURE 10.11

Using Modify Configurations to control configuration specific custom properties