currently in an internship in a company I am looking for a way under solidworks (version 2011) to allow to deploy a family of parts via Excel. However, I ask myself the question: Can we deploy a family of parts in Excel just by filling in the typical profile?
that's what I did PL but the problem is that the typical profile by unfolding it has several variants but I don't think that solid works will be able to create and fill in my request for the moment but I hope soon!!!
the lengths, width, number of holes and diameter of the holes etc
but as it's a family of parts at the base it's pretty much the same with a few differences
So why not go through a table and more than a single drawing
Part families in drawings
If a model uses a part family to generate multiple configurations, you can display the part family in a drawing of that model. In this way, a single drawing can represent all configurations.
You can refer to the numbers with short, descriptive letters or names instead of using their full names and values. For example, instead of D1@BaseExtrusion, you can use a label such as A or thickness as the column header in the part family and display it instead of the dimension value in the drawing view.
The following figure shows how a part family and the dimensions it controls can appear in a drawing.
The part family appears in the drawing exactly as it appears in the model document. For this reason, in the part or assembly document, you must configure it so that it appears as you want it to appear in the drawing. You then insert it into the drawing.