Configured Designs

A Configured Design is a Fusion design document that contains two or more Configurations of the design that you define in a Configuration Table.

You can create a Configured Design from scratch or convert an existing design.

Convert Standard Designs to Configured Designs

When you convert a Standard Design to a Configured Design, the Standard Design:

• Becomes the Default Configuration in row 1 of the Configuration Table.
• Directs existing references in other designs and drawings to the Default Configuration.

To back up or access the original Standard Design:

• Copy the original Standard Design, then convert the copy.
• Convert the design, then locate the original Standard Design through the design's version history.

Version history

Version history is tracked separately for a Configured Design and each of its Configurations.

Whenever you save a Configured Design:

• The Configured Design always gets a new version.
• Each Configuration you edited gets a new version.
• If you did not edit a Configuration, it does not get a new version.
• If you create a new Configuration, its version history starts at Version 1.

You can reference any version of a Configuration in other documents:

• Insert into a design.
• Derive into a design.
• Reference in a Drawing document.

Milestones

When you create a Milestone for a Configured Design version:

• The Milestone is applied to the latest version of each Configuration up until that Configured Design version.
• The Milestone is only applied to the Configurations present at that time.

You can only create Milestones from Configured Design versions, not individual Configurations.

Insert

When you insert a Configured Design, you can choose from a list of Configurations that exist in the latest version of the Configured Design.

If there are Milestone versions, the latest Milestone version of the selected Configuration is inserted. Otherwise the latest version of the Configuration is inserted.

Export Configured Designs

You can export:

• A Configured Design
• The active Configuration as a Standard Design
• A Configured Component as a Standard Design

Delete Configured Designs

You can only delete a Configured Design if none of its Configurations are:

• Inserted into other designs.
• Derived into other designs.
• Referenced in Drawing documents.
• Referenced in other workspaces.

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