- [Instructor] For this movie,
I want to show you how we can create an assembly
of multiple parts that all happen to be the exact same part
just different configurations of that part.
So right over here you can see I've got
the Configuration Manager opened up
and I've got a lego brick here on my screen.
And if I click on the default
it switches to a different color.
If I switch to a different half brick
you can see I've got a whole bunch
of different versions of legos inside of this part.
So if I switch over here to this long and wide brick
you can see we've got a whole bunch of these little dots
at the top here which connect the bricks together.
Now, one thing I do want to point out
how I created all these configurations.
Now obviously the base of the block's pretty simple to do
because I can just drive those dimensions very easily
from a design table.
However, what about these little pins here at the top?
How do we control how many we actually get?
Well let me show you.
If I head over here to the feature manager
and inside there we have equations.
And if I right click on and say, manage equations
I'm using a little bit of a fancy equation here.
So the X spacing here and the Y spacing
are driven from this equation.
So let me explain what's happening here.
So one is the D2 at sketch one is the length of the brick
I'm then taking that dividing it in half,
and then timesing it by 10.
So that is our spacing
and then what I'm doing is converting it over to an integer.
So I'm saying this wants to be an integer okay,
and then I'm doing something very very similar here
with the other direction the Y spacing.
So this equation will equate back to eight by four,
and then that is what's going to be driving
these values over here.
So that's how I do that.
So it's kind of complicated, but it's a cool way
you can use equations to define your shape.
And then over here under my linear pattern
I'm then using these linked equations here
and down here to define the size of how many in the X
and how many in the Y of these little dots
I'm putting on my part.
Alright and I do want to point out right over here,
actually right under here is sketch one
inside of there are those values right.
So I'm saying that's the one value here,
this is the other value here.
And those are pink showing that these are linked values
that are driven from the design table.
So I can't actually change 'em here
because it's part of the table.
Alright once I get back out of that,
now I've got that brick.
And of course I can change different configurations.
Now what I want to do is create an assembly
from my brick here.
So go over here and say, make assembly from part
let's go ahead and bring that first part in,
and now if you want to bring different configurations in
I can switch over here to tile horizontally
and here's my original part here's my assembly at the top,
you can actually switch over here
to the configuration manager and you can click
and grab these individual parts from the tree over here.
So I can bring in these different versions of the part
by clicking and dragging them in from this list over here.
So I can just bring those things in very easily.
I can have all these different configurations all
in my same assembly.
So I'm going to bring in a single brick
and it's in brick why not?
Let's bring 'em all in.
Okay so now that we got all the bricks in here,
expand that out of course I can move these things around.
I can rotate them around.
And if you want multiple instances of the same brick
if you just hold on control I can drag out of another copy.
And if I take that other copy and I rotate it around
and then I make another copy by holding on control,
drag it out the other copy will be
in the exact same orientation as the one that I copied.
The other thing I can do
if I want to switch to a different configuration,
I can just click on the brick itself and notice up here
it says long flat, and over here
I get the full list of everything I have.
So I can just switch easily to a different brick
and the configuration will automatically adjust.
So you can easily build whatever you want
if you're into legos man this would be awesome
and you just start bringing in legos, copying 'em
as they need switch to any version
of the lego you want and snap it all together.
So it's a really quick way to use configurations
and the design tables to build very similar parts
that all have similar features
and then we can then build pretty complicated assemblies
using exactly those parts.
And again we only have one part in there
it's just different configurations of the same exact part.