What are SolidWorks configurations ?
SolidWorks configurations are a very common way used to define multiple similar but slightly different parts (like screws with different sizes for example).
How to load a specific configuration ?
As you can notice on the screenshot below, the default configuration is checked with a green mark:
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This last option’s only able to accept a single configuration for SolidWorks files, so be sure to also set A3DRWParamsMultiEntriesData::m_uiEntriesSize to 1 and no more. |
How to load all the available configurations ?
However, if you need to load several configurations, all can be imported at once by just enabling the A3DRWParamsSolidworksData::m_bLoadAllConfigsData option.
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If some parts of an assembly are missing while reading all configurations, HOOPS will try to “repair” them with the tessellation available in the assembly head. |
See also the related article: Why some SolidWorks configurations are missing in HOOPS ?
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As you can see in the screenshot below, some configurations may present greyed dashes:
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That’s because they’re purged by SolidWorks in order to save some space, however such models have to be regenerated by SolidWorks kernel in order to be displayed. So since HOOPS doesn’t embed any modeler, it's currently unable to recompute those purged configurations.