Design tables are a powerful way to manipulate properties, features, sketches, drawings, and assemblies. This is a demonstration on how to control dimensions and features in a part.
Solidworks Design Table for a Part from Caleb Stoll on Vimeo.
Sunday, April 27, 2008
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Great Video! In SolidWorks 2008 you can also right click on a dimension, select configure dimensions on the ones that you want to vary and then when you create your design tables some of those differences are populated already.
Anyways, keep up the great work.
Thanks for the video. It is good to see more people creating content to share! Quick tip, if you make your design table a bit smaller and tell SW to show feature dimensions you can just single click on the dimensions you want to control. SW will automatically place the d1@sketch2 info in the correct column and place the current value for the active config. If you want to get suppression state just double click on the feature in the tree or in the graphics area to populate STATE@feature which will also be placed in the correct column. This can be easier than copy/paste or remembering the dim tag. ~Lou
Great comments. A much faster way of doing it. Thanks for the hints. I have yet to use 08 yet so it will be fun to see the enhancements.
Is there any way to bring the functionality of design tables one step further in the following way?
you have parts with individual design tables and you bring them together in an assembly. Now at this point you wanna add new configurations to assembly whose dimensions are controlled by part's design tables.
For example you have a part say a beam with a hole grid (every 100mm) and holes are created by the design table with a little excel manuplation as follows;
Beam length / spacing = number of holes
these values drive the linear pattern which create the holes.
No problem here. When I change the beam length only, design table takes care of the rest and I have holes at every 100 mm.
now in another assembly file say I want to add a screew to every hole of this beam. I can practicaly do it by Linear Component and dublicate the screews with the existing Linear Pattern on the beam.
My question is is there any way to create within this assembly a design table where I can manuplate the configurations of the beam.
so by only changing the configuration of the beam generate a new assembly?
any comment on this is issue will be greatly appriciated.
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