- [Instructor] Configurations allow us
to have multiple versions of the same part.
They can actually be bigger or smaller.
We can control if cuts or features are turned on or off
and we can do a whole lot of things
inside of the Configuration Manager.
So in this part right here,
you can see I've got several different features.
I've got the main rectangular or square extrude
and then I've got series of cuts,
so I have this triangular cut from the side,
I have a square cut from the other side
and then I have a circular cut going through the top.
Now what if I want to make different configurations?
One had only the circular cut.
One only had the triangular cut
and maybe one only had the square cut
and maybe I want it to be a little bit different size.
Well, we can do that under the Configuration Manager.
So over here under the Feature Manager,
if you go two tabs over, is the Configuration Manager.
Click on that one there.
Notice, we only have that one configuration.
Well, just go ahead and right-click on that
and say we're going to create a new configuration.
So right up here at the top is my configuration,
right-click and say, Add Configuration.
All right, so I'm going to call this one, number 1
and you can define how you are displaying the information
about in the bill materials by choosing the document name
or configuration name or user specified name.
But right now let's just go ahead
and keep it at the document name.
Click okay and now I've got a new configuration.
So if I click on the default, it switches to the default.
If I click on the new configuration,
it'll switch back and forth.
Now, currently these happen to be exactly the same
but what I can do is I can go back over here
to the feature manager and I can suppress certain features.
So in this one here,
I'm going to go ahead and suppress that square cut.
So now I only have a circular cut
and a triangular cut in this version of the part.
If I go back to the Configuration Manager
go over to the default, it has everything.
This new one, it only has those two cuts.
All right.
If I want to add some more,
right click again, Add Configuration.
Now, whichever configuration you happen to be on,
is what's going to be used for the new configuration.
So I'm going to call this one 2.
Click okay and then go over here to the Feature Manager.
In this case I'm going to go ahead
and suppress this, as well as this.
So now this is just a block.
So if I go to configuration 1, it's got these two cuts.
If I go to configuration 2, it's just a block.
And if I go to the default configuration,
it's got all those cuts.
Pretty cool right.
Now I can actually modify the part itself
while in that configuration.
So in this case here, I can go back over here
and take a look at the original sketch.
So right over here is the sketch that I used.
If I edit that sketch, notice it's six by five.
Now, if I click on any one of these dimensions over here
I can double click and I can say, eh,
you know I want this to be 12,
but over here on the right hand side of that box
is this little dropdown.
And this is asking me
do I want to apply this to this configuration only?
Or all configurations or specify which ones I'd like to use.
So I want to just use this configuration.
So go ahead and click on this configuration,
click on the green check mark,
and it'll automatically update.
Exit out of that part.
And now you can see here's our shape.
Now, if I go back over here to the Configuration Manager,
if I click on configuration 2,
it goes back to the shape it was before,
because it's only driving that one configuration.
Same thing over here.
It's this one is not affected either
because I'm only changing that one dimension.
Now you can change any dimensions
you want between the parts.
So you can get very complicated by changing
and working with all types of different configurations,
that have variables,
that are linked just to that configuration
but you can't delete one, right?
So it has to be shared
between all the configurations in your design.
That's how you work with configurations inside of all works.