About SOLIDWORKS configurations

SOLIDWORKS enables you to create configurations of parts and assemblies and display these configurations in their corresponding drawings.

In parts, configurations enable you to create families of parts with different dimensions, features, and properties, including custom properties. Part configurations sometimes use design tables where different dimensions are defined for a feature shared between configurations, or by suppressing features in different configurations.

In assemblies, configurations enable you to create:

• Simplified versions of the design by suppressing components.
• Families of assemblies with different configurations of the components, different parameters for assembly features, different dimensions, or configuration-specific custom properties.

In drawings, you can display views of the configurations you create in parts and assemblies.

For further information on SOLIDWORKS configurations, click here.