Understanding and utilizing configurations

Oftentimes, when creating a product, we will create multiple versions of it with each of the versions having a slight variation from the others. SOLIDWORKS provides special tools for such configurations. In this part, we will learn all about configurations and how to use them to create different variations of a certain product or object.

What are configurations?

Configurations are different versions of a particular product or object. These variations would have small differences when compared to each other. For example, the following four figures in the screenshot show different configurations of the same object:

Note that the four configurations do not have major differences among...