Understanding and utilizing configurations and design tables for assemblies

With configurations and design tables, we will be able to create different versions of an assembly in the same assembly file. This is very similar to what we learned previously when creating configurations for a part. Within an assembly, our configurations can vary based on the mates applied and the existing parts within the assembly. We can also link them to configurations within the individual parts themselves. In this section, we will generate different versions of the assembly file we worked on in the previous section. We will start by generating a configuration touchpoint by manually adding a configuration.

Using manual configurations

Here, we will create the shown configuration by manually adding a new configuration. Note that, in the configuration shown in the following screenshot, there is an additional mate compared to the default configuration, which fixes the arm at 90 degrees to the Major...