Creating a PropertyManager - Multiple-Configuration Model

For models with multiple configurations, you create the custom PropertyManager for the configurations defined in the design table.

The Configuration Publisher requires that the model contain a design table. The design table must contain:

• A row for each configuration
• A column for each variable
• Values for each variable

1. At the top of the ConfigurationManager tab, right-click the model name and click Configuration Publisher.
   

   The Configuration Publisher dialog box appears and the design table opens in a separate window. Because the design table has multiple rows and contains values for each variable for each configuration, a control appears in the palette for each variable in the design table.
   
   

2. Click the Edit tab in the center pane.
   
3. Drag a control from the palette to the center pane.
   

   Fields appear in the right pane, under Attributes, for Name and Design Table Variable.

4. Double-click in Name and type a name.

   The name appears on the control in the center pane.

   Design Table Variable is read-only. It displays the variable associated with the control.

5. Drag another control from the palette to the center pane.
   

   In the right pane, Visibility appears in addition to Attributes.

6. In the right pane:
   1. Under Control Attributes, in Name, type a name.
   2. Under Visibility, for Parent, specify whether the current control is shown or hidden for each value of the parent control. Select None to make the control always visible.
      
7. Continue adding controls.
   Click the SW Preview tab or the 3DCC Preview tab to see how the PropertyManager will appear in SolidWorks and in 3D ContentCentral.

8. Click Apply to save the PropertyManager definition.

   PropertyManager appears in the ConfigurationManager.

9. Click Close to close the dialog box.
   To edit the PropertyManager definition, right-click PropertyManager and click Edit Feature.