One of my favorite design features inside SOLIDWORKS is configurations. I love the ability to edit and revise properties without affecting the original model. What some people may not know is that you can utilize configurations with SOLIDWORKS Visualize Professional as well.
Let’s start configuring…
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Using configurations is very easy. All you need to do is click the little plus symbol next to the configuration bar to add a configuration to the project. You can see it above the red arrow in the image below.
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Once you have a new configuration in place you can change the colors and appearances that you want on the new configuration and not affect your original nor affect any of the additional configurations that you created.
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Once you have all of your different configurations set the way you want them you can render all of the configurations that you have made under output tools.
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Once that is all set, you are left with as many beautiful images as you want to create. Here are the images of the set of rings that I made configurations of in Visualize.
Base Configuration
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Gold and Diamond Configuration
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Platinum and Sapphire Configuration
/Picture7.png "Platinum and Sapphire Configuration in Visualize")
Hope you learned a new little trick inside of Visualize professional. Happy configuring!
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