Part IV: Creating and Using Libraries
FIGURE 19.18
Filling in the configurator table
- Close the configurator table, click the green check to exit the feature, and save the
assembly.
- Exit the assembly and, in the part file, save it to a folder in your Design Library. If
you do not know where your Design Library is located, then choose Tools ➪ Options ➪
File Locations ➪ Design Library.
- Display the part in the Design Library panel of the Task pane.
- Open the part from the CD-ROM with the filename Chapter 19 Tutorial Plate.
sldprt. Place this part into a new assembly.
- Drag the Tutorial Start (Smart Component) from the Design Library into the assem-
bly, and move the part over the holes in the plate. As you drag the part up and down
the row of holes, the part changes sizes to match each hole. Figure 19.19 shows all the
holes that are populated with the matching Smart Component sizes, as driven by the con-
figurator table. Place the part over one of the diameters.
- To edit the configurator table, open the Smart Component part in its own window.
Then right-click the Smart Feature folder and select Open In Defining Assembly.
- An assembly that was created from the data stored in the part opens. Click the Edit
Definition button that appears in the upper-right corner of the graphics window.
