Using Design Tables to Create Tabulated Drawings in SOLIDWORKS - Computer Aided Technology
Summary
Leveraging the capabilities of Microsoft Excel, you can easily control design parameters—such as dimensions, suppression states, and materials—through cells in a spreadsheet. (Honestly, it wasn’t until after I finished the first configuration that I remembered pencils come in basically just two sizes—standard and “golf”—so we’ll just imagine that there are more options for the sake of demonstration.) In other words, any desired changes to the table—including fonts, hidden rows or columns, numerical precision, and more—need to be made by editing the design table in the model’s ConfigurationManager. With this design table, I have essentially created a tabulated drawing, clearly and fully describing all members of the part family in a single document. If you often work with design tables in parts or assemblies but haven’t yet applied them to a drawing, try it the next time you need to detail a model.
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