- [Instructor] Inside of SOLIDWORKS Visualize
we have the ability to create multiple configurations
of our assembly.
Now, you might want to showcase one individual part
or showcase how things go together.
You might be wanting to be adding multiple pieces together
to create these configurations or create these groups
which you can than work with inside of
the visualization environment.
Let me show you how to do it.
Up here at the top we have this base configuration
and it's all we have.
Now, I can click over here on the New Configuration button
and now I have Configuration number 1.
So now I can do different things to my configuration
and I can in fact even add more configurations
if I'd like to, click over here.
I've got Configuration 2 so I have now 1 and 2,
so let's go back to 1.
Over here on the right is that top-level model
and below that is the root folder,
and I have these individual parts here,
so in this configuration, for instance,
I can hide some of the stuff, I'm going to go hide this,
I'm going to hide that part, I'm going to go ahead
and hide this one here.
I'm just going to go kind of through all these parts here
and start hiding them, so I boil it down
to just being like one thing, maybe this bezel here.
Let's get rid of the glass, hide that, hide these.
You've got a whole bunch of things I can hide, like I said,
and then when you want to just save this as a configuration.
Now if I go back to Configuration number 2,
all those things are still there,
so in that configuration everything's turned on.
In my Configuration number 1 most all those things
are turned off, so that's how you can kind of play with it,
so now I can render this if I want to just see the bezel
and the hands of the watch,
or I could switch over to the other configuration
and render that.
Now the cool thing about the render engine is
it does give you the ability to render configurations,
and it'll, say, render Configuration number 1
and then switch to render Configuration number 2
and render that again.
You have a whole bunch of different options
what you can do with these configurations
and setting them up, so definitely I recommend
setting up multiple configurations for your part
in the different configurations you might have,
you want to show, and then set up to render it overnight
and you have multiple views all done for you
all by the render engine just by rendering configurations
and the different views in the different cameras.