• Link the new dimension values to ...:

When editing an assembly from the table, a drop-down menu allows you to choose whether a component's new dimension should apply to the active configuration, to all configurations, or according to the setting specified when the part was saved (Dimension Setting).


 


To compare this to what happens in the 3D file, it's similar to the options available when you edit a dimension in 3D, except for the "Specify configurations" option, which isn't available in the Excel file.


 


  • Extract:

Here, we choose whether to create the table with all components in the top assembly, only the "Part" components, or only the "Assembly" components.


 


  • Component identification property:

Each component (part, assembly, etc.) used in SOLIDWORKS is identified by a unique identification number; you can choose to ignore this here.

 


  • Keep the order of the components:

When using the "Build Table" function, you can check this option to list the components in the order in which they were inserted into the assembly.


  • Reading level:

If you have a top-level assembly that contains multiple subassembly levels and you do not want to use all of them, you can specify which level to consider.