Alibre Design

Chapter 10 - Design Configurations3. Double-click the configuration you want to make active in this assembly, or, right-click theconfiguration and select Activate. In this example, I double-clicked the configuration called"Small".The new configuration will become active in this assembly, and will be shown in the work area. Thiswill not affect which configuration is active in any other assembly, or in the original model workspace.Note: Configuration information is only displayed for immediate children of the root assembly. Partsnested within sub assemblies do not have a Configurations category node; however, the activateconfiguration name is appended to the part name. You can see this illustrated below.Notice the root assembly is called "FourConnectors_w_Leads - Female Mixed Short".(FourConnectors_w_Leads is the name of the assembly model file, and Female Mixed Short is thename of the active configuration)There is a subassembly called "Four Connectors - Male Large". This means that Male Large isthe active configuration of the model Four Connectors in this assembly. You can see theConfigurations category under this component, which lets you know you can change the activeconfiguration from Male Large to something else if desired.260