Currently routing has no inherent way to take advantage of the configuration capability found throughout the rest of the Solidworks product- I've been told there is not enough demand for this to warrant development and was wondering if I am the only one needing/wanting this capablilty. An example of this functionallity is pictured below. To create these examples an individual route assembly is required for each "configuration" shown and I want to know if others feel the capability to accomplish this example using configurations should be a higher priority. SW tech support has agreed that this is NOT considered an enhancement request but a BUG (SPR 448208) with a high priority. At this point I have no indication that this is being addressed. I welcome your feedback or differing opinion. Thanks in advance.
Hi Kris,
This is true. Because of the unique way that routing uses sketches and assemblies the use of configurations in this way is not supported.
SPR 448208 is in fact a high priority enhancement request. However, this SPR requests support for different route diameters in route configurations. This is not as large a problem as your example where, when switching configurations we would have to create/delete components as well as moving components.
If others have a similar requirement please do respond and let us know as it helps us to prioritise projects, enhancements and bug fixes.
Cheers
Andy