- [Instructor] Once we have a design table
linked to our part,
we can start doing complex calculations
and bringing in all types of different features
and things we can control inside of that table.
Let me show you how it works.
Over here, if I click on the configuration manager
at the very top I have a twirl down for tables
and here is my design table.
Right click on that table and say, edit table.
All right, anytime you're opening up a table,
it might ask you if you want to bring in
any other configurations or parameters,
and check all these out, I have color,
description and so on.
Let's go ahead and select all these.
Let's bring those in, why not?
So Excel opens up and you can see here on the screen,
I've got some of them shown.
I'm going to go ahead and just stretch this across the screen
and let's go ahead and look at this a little bit better.
Let's lay it out a little bit cleaner
so we can see what's going on.
And I'm just going to drag a couple of these columns over here.
Let's go ahead and hide that.
Let's slide that over there.
All right, that's looking a little bit better.
So we can see the configuration name.
And we've got description.
Let's go ahead expand a few of these tables out
a little bit more, just so we can see what's going on.
So now you can see that we've got
the base default configuration,
and it has a couple dimensions in here.
It's got a color number,
which corresponds to the color that it is when it starts.
And of course we can change that.
We have to look up that value,
whatever the correct color is.
We can also just try changing the number
and see what happens.
Same thing with description.
I can define the description here,
as well as if I click on one of these,
I get to drop down over here
and I can choose one of those SolidWorks materials
here they are right here.
So I can easily switch between materials
inside of the design table.
Come down here, as far as the part number.
Notice it has a dollar sign D or C,
and it's telling you how over here
it's getting that part number from.
Whether it's getting it from the description
or from the configuration.
We can also change the state of the sketch or the extrude
by suppressing or unsupressing the feature.
If you click on anyone of these boxes,
notice to get this little popup winner that says,
if they put an S in there, we'll be suppressed.
If they put a U in there, it will be unsuppressed
or I can choose to use a one and a zero.
So your choice there,
if you want to suppress or unsupress those features.
If you want to add a new line, a new configuration,
we can easily do that by just grabbing
this entire line here, coming down here
and then using fill down.
So if you don't know where fill down is,
we can grab it normally up here and I can see it right here.
So it's fill down or you can hold down Control
and hit D on your keyboard.
A couple of ways you can do that.
So now that we've done that
notice that this configuration and this configuration here
have the same names,
we need to make sure we have a unique name
for each one of those configurations.
So I'm going to change that to new 4.
Now I can define what the values are.
So right over here, I have a 15.
If I want to do more complex calculations,
I can hit the equals sign
and then I can start typing in values
or I can click other values on the sheet.
So if I say that's equal to this cell,
and then say, plus this cell,
and then right up here is the equation I'll say,
plus and I'll click on this cell over here
and then hit enter.
And that will take those individual cells,
add 'em all up and then put the value into that cell.
I can do the same thing
with any of these other cells over here as well.
Now, if you want to get even more fancy,
you could say something like equals
and then you can use an equation, click on the equations.
And right over here, I can use something like
a sum or average, or I can do some conditionals,
like if statements.
I can come down here and search for financial,
or date and time.
I can come down and do math and trigonometry.
There's all kinds of things you can do inside
of this cell to calculate values
for your final SolidWorks part.
So once you're done adding in whatever function
you're trying to put in here,
you can then go back to the part.
So let me show you how to do with the basic one here.
I'll just say the, we're going to use the sine.
So I'm going to go come all the way down here to sine,
all right here to sine and then the number, right?
So we got to go type in the number.
So click okay.
And the number I want to use a sine of 30 degrees, click okay.
And it's giving us negative one.
So that's not really what we want.
So we don't want to have a negative number.
So what's the sine of 45?
0.9, okay, that works.
So as long as we get something in there
that will be a positive number,
we should be all set.
And then over here let's go ahead and try to change
this value to 81.
I'm not sure what color that's going to be,
but we'll see what happens,
and let's change the material instead of copper,
let's change it to 1060 alloy,
and let's go ahead and unsupress something.
So now, oh, oh, that has to be a capital,
otherwise it's going to complain.
Now that we have all those changes done,
go ahead and click anywhere outside of that table.
And we should automatically get,
if you click okay on this first,
we should all automatically get this new configuration,
click okay.
And here is my new configuration, new 4,
click on that one there,
and it turns into a thin little aluminum rod.
So pretty cool what you can do
inside of those design tables.
We can control so many different things
from SolidWorks in that table.
And really your imagination is the limit
of how much you can control
and how many different configurations you have.
In fact, a nice example of this is a company that I know
makes hardware or fasteners like bolts,
and they make all kinds of different sizes of bolts
and all kinds of different lengths of those bolts.
But a bolt is basically the same shape.
A socket cap screw is always pretty much the same shape.
It's just bigger or smaller or longer or shorter.
So we can configure that in a design table
to have literally thousands of different sizes of bolts
all in one table,
and you can easily switch
between any one of them at any time.