- Once we already have a design table inside
of a part inside of SolidWorks,
it's a little bit hard to modify that table,
and I want to show you actually how to do that.
It's actually not that hard,
but it is something that's maybe not as intuitive.
So first things first, let's go ahead
and review the part I have right here.
So I have this main boss feature
which I've changed the name of
and directly below that is the sketch.
So if I open up that sketch right over here,
you can see that I went in here and I actually clicked
on each one of these things and I changed the name.
So this says height at boss,
and notice the "at boss" is coming from that sketch.
And same thing over here is the width at boss.
All right.
And if the sketch was named something else
it would be whatever that name happened to be.
Now those values there are what we want to drive,
so if I come over here to the configuration manager
notice there is no design table currently there.
I might go up here to insert,
come down here to tables,
and come over here to design table.
All right.
Say auto create, click "okay",
and now it's going to be asking us all these dimensions,
which things do I want to bring in.
Now I'm going to go ahead
and select select the top one,
all these ones here.
And I do want the thickness
but I'm actually going to purposefully not select it right now.
Okay? So I'm going to bring everything else in,
click okay,
and here's my design table.
If you want to make another configuration,
just create a new line.
I can just select this line
and then I can hit control D for fill down.
Once you hit the control D, it fills down one row.
We have to make sure we do change this value here.
So I'm going to change that to "new".
Every row has to have its own unique name.
Once we've done that,
now I can exit out
of that table,
and that is now driving our table
but we didn't actually change anything, right?
We got to go back here and modify the table.
So if I go back over here to the table,
click on the table,
right click and say "edit table".
Okay. Click "okay".
And then let's go ahead
and actually make this 12 inches for a longer width there.
Click out of that.
And now we've modified that value.
If I click on the new value, it gets a little bit wider.
That's exactly what we're expecting.
Now I'd like to actually control the thickness, right?
And we don't have that in our table.
So to get to that,
we actually have to add another column to our table.
So if I click over here onto the table
I can say "edit table".
All right.
And now that we have that, I want to go in here
and grab the value, but it's a little bit hard to do that
because I got to go out here
and actually highlight something in the window.
And if I do that, it sometimes if you click over here
we'll see what we got.
So I can click over here on under main boss.
If I click over here on the main boss feature here,
notice it pops up over here.
And I happen to be in this window right here.
If I double click on that thickness, click click,
it brings it into our table, pretty sneaky there.
So it's a little bit of a tough thing to do,
but I was able to bring it in,
and it automatically also brought
in that suppressed state there.
So we can keep that if we'd like,
but then make sure that you're copying
these things down here.
So I'm going to hit control D
or come up here and use the fill...
down either one of those will work.
All right.
And this time I'm going to change the thickness to two.
All right.
There's the two.
And then exit out.
Now, automatically that configuration adjusts
to the two inch thickness
and we're controlling it by the design table.
So it's a little bit
of a process to add things into a design table.
So I definitely recommend trying to add
in everything you'd like to control from the beginning,
but if you do need to add another column
you need to then get into the design table
then find which feature you're trying to add in,
double click it in the window,
and then it'll bring it into the design table.