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Using design tables

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Using design tables

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- [Instructor] SolidWorks gives you the ability to use Microsoft Excel to drive your part configurations. We can create a link between an Excel file and our part here and then any values that I type in there will automatically show up to drive this component. To do that, we need to come up here and say insert, and then come down here to tables, and then come over here to design table. Click on that, and notice that we have the auto-create option, which we use most of the time. Go ahead and click on OK, and what that's going to is is it's going to search the part itself and it's going to find all the available dimensions or sketches that we can use to bring in to define our part. So I can choose, one, two, or all of these, it doesn't really matter, and if you had a hundred different things in your part, it would bring them all in, so you can choose how you want to drive this component. Now, if you go ahead and chose all these, click…

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