Chapter 14: Assembly Configurations and Display States
Tip
When opening an assembly through the Open dialog box, the Advanced option enables you to open the assem-
bly and create a new assembly configuration that uses part configurations of a given name, if available. The
default part configuration name entered in the text box is, I think, suggestive of how SolidWorks intended for
this function to be used. As shown in Figure 14.4, it is “Simplified.” In previous versions, the Advanced button
was conspicuously placed on the front of the Open dialog box, but by 2009 it was changed to a selection clev-
erly hidden in the list of configurations, as shown in the image of the configuration drop-down list. n
FIGURE 14.4The Advanced option for assemblies in the Open dialog box