Edit
configuration properties for an existing configuration.
To specify properties for configurations:
Do one of the following:
In the ConfigurationManager , right-click the part or assembly name and select Add
Configuration.
In the ConfigurationManager , right-click a configuration name and select Properties.
In
the FeatureManager design tree of an assembly, right-click a component
and select Add Configuration.
This enables you to create a configuration of the assembly component without
opening the component in its own window. You must be editing the top-level
assembly; the component can be at any level in the FeatureManager design
tree. The configuration is stored in the file of the component for which
the configuration is created.
Specify the properties described below, then click
.
Configuration Properties
Configuration name. Type a name
for the configuration. The name must not include the forward slash (/)
or "at" sign (@). A warning message appears when you close the
dialog box if the name field contains either of these characters, if the
field is blank, or if the name already exists. You can display component
configuration
names in the FeatureManager design tree.
Description (optional). Type
a description that identifies the configuration. You can display component
configuration descriptions in the FeatureManager design tree
and the ConfigurationManager.
Comment (optional). Type additional
descriptive information about the configuration.
Display
State (assemblies only). Select a display state for
the configuration.
Custom Properties (available
only when editing properties of an existing configuration). Click to access
Configuration
Specific properties in the Summary
Information dialog box.
Bill Of Materials Options
Part number displayed when used in
a bill of materials. Specify how the assembly or part is listed
in a Bill of Materials. Select one of the following:
Document Name.
The part number is the same as the document name.
Configuration
Name. The part number is the same as the configuration name.
User Specified
Name.The part number is
a name that you type.
Don't show child components in BOM
when used as sub-assembly (assemblies only). When selected, the
sub-assembly is always
shown as a single item in the Bill of Materials. Otherwise, the child
components might be listed individually in the BOM, depending on the BOM
properties you select when you create the BOM.
Advanced Options
The followingproperties control
what happens when you add new items to another
configuration, and then activate this
configuration again. The options that are available depend on the type
of document.
Suppress new
features and mates (assemblies only).When selected, new mates and features added to other
configurations are suppressed in this
configuration. Otherwise, new mates and features are included (not suppressed)
in this configuration. New features in assemblies include assembly feature
cuts and holes, component patterns, reference geometry, and sketches that
belong to the assembly
(not to one of the assembly components).
Hide new components(assemblies only).When selected, new components added to other
configurations are hidden in this
configuration. Otherwise, new components are shown in this configuration.
Suppress new
components(assemblies only).When selected, new components added
to other
configurations are suppressed in this
configuration. Otherwise, new components are resolved (not suppressed)
in this configuration.
Suppress features
(parts only).When selected, new
features added to other
configurations are suppressed in this
configuration. Otherwise, new features are included (not suppressed) in
this configuration.
Use configuration specific color.
To specify a color for the configuration, select this check box, then
click Color to choose a color
from the color palette.
If the color for wireframe and HLR modes is the
same as the color for shaded mode, the configuration-specific color applies
to all three modes. If the color is not the same for all three modes,
then the configuration specific color applies to shaded mode only. To
make the colors the same for the three modes, select Apply
same color to wireframe, HLR and shaded in Tools,
Options, Document
Properties, Colors.
To apply a configuration-specific color to components
in an assembly, right-click the selected components in the FeatureManager
design tree, select Component Properties,
and click Color. In theAssembly
Instance Color dialog box, click Use
Assembly and click OK.
Parent/Child Options
Available only in assemblies and only when adding a new configuration
to the assembly or one of its components. Select the components to which
you want to add the new configuration.
For example, suppose you have an assembly, vise,
which contains a sub-assembly, handle,
which contains a component connector.
If you add a new configuration named long
to vise, you can add configurations
named long to handle
and connector at the same time,
by selecting them in the simplified tree under Parent/Child
Options.
, right-click the part or assembly name and select Add
Configuration.
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