- [Instructor] We can use configurations
inside of SolidWorks to build fairly complex assemblies.
Right over here, I only actually have
three individual components,
but I've built a section of wall here
using them in different lengths
with different features turned on or turned off.
So let me go ahead and click on the two by four here
at the top of the screen and go ahead and open it up.
And inside there, you can see I've got
multiple different configurations of that two by four.
Now the only thing I'm driving here
is just the length of the two by four.
You could, though, define the length, the width,
and the height and create things like two by twelves
and four by fours and things like that
if you wanted to.
But in this case here, I'm only driving the length
of the two by four.
And if you click on that table here,
you can open up the table and take a look at it.
And you can see here that as soon as it opens up,
click OK, and now you can see over here that I've got,
let's go ahead and move this over.
I've got all the different versions of that two by four
in the length that I need right over here.
And if you did need another configuration,
we could just type a value right in here,
and then go ahead and name it right over here.
And then we would have that available to us in the assembly.
Once you're done, click out of that,
head back over to our part.
Okay, now go ahead and open up that assembly again.
And the next part I want to look at
is just this little piece of trim here.
Click on that, click on Open.
And what I've done here
is there's three different versions, right?
So here is the top.
And then if I click on the left version,
it's just a longer version of that.
And what I did is I suppressed the cut on one side.
So I have a full length here, and a cut on just one side.
And the default configuration is exactly the same length,
but it has the cut on the other side.
So if I click over here to the Feature manager,
you can see that cut, there it is suppressed.
If I switch back over here to like the top,
then none of the different cuts
are being suppressed at that point.
If I switch over here and take a look at the table,
you can see right over here,
I can say Edit Table and click OK.
And inside this table now, if I move this over, I can see,
I have the length of it.
I have it either suppressed or unsuppressed,
depending on which version you're in.
So in this case here, it's suppressed.
This one's suppressed.
This one's suppressed over here.
And then over here, neither one of 'em are suppressed
on the top.
So that's how you drive that one feature.
Okay, head back over to the part,
and let's go back over here to the assembly.
Now, back at the assembly, the last piece
that I have in here is the drywall.
Now I have the drywall back here, as well as on the front.
And I just have it being transparent on the front
so we can see into the wall.
So if you click on the drywall itself,
it is a full sheet of drywall.
There's actually no configurations of it.
So it's just a full sheet of drywall that I'm using.
And here it is, if I click on Fit,
there's my piece of drywall.
All right, now, back over here in my assembly, though,
I'm actually doing a cut in context
to cut the hole for the door.
So let's take a look at how that works.
I'm going to come down here
and actually roll the History bar back,
and you can see where I'm starting.
So I have the individual pieces of two by four
and all the different lengths are already framed out here
so you can see where they are.
And I just put the trim on the front side of that.
Then what I'm doing is I'm using this other piece in here.
I'm going to be trimming the drywall to it.
Then I'm going to go ahead and mirror that to the back
and then do an in context cut.
So let me show you how I do that here
with the logical pattern.
That's going to be taking this first stud
and patterning it to the left,
and do the same thing over here on the right
to pattern it over to the right.
And then we're going to mirror all these components here
so they all go to the back.
And then the final thing I'm going to do here
is do a an extruded cut.
So cut extrude right over here.
And what I'm using for that is this sketch right here.
I'm going to go ahead and just cut right through
those pieces of drywall.
Now, this is only in the assembly,
so I'm making an extruded cut inside of the assembly.
And in fact, if you'd like to do that,
they're available under the Assembly features
right over here, I can do all these things
inside of an assembly, which will only affect those parts
while they're in the assembly.
If I go back and open up that part,
that cut will not be there.
So that is how you can use
just a few different configurations of a part,
bring it in, and create a pretty complex assembly
just by using multiple configurations,
all of the same part.