Can a family of parts be associated by derived configuration?

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Hello

In SolidWorks 2016, I would like to know if it is possible to associate a part family (at least one Excel spreadsheet sheet) with a derived configuration, and not associate a part family with a part?

In detail: I currently have a part of which  a first configuration has fixing holes, a second configuration has fixing holes and a geometry modification and finally a third configuration that does not have a hole but has the geometry modification, and, I would like each of these configurations to have its own family of parts. Is this possible?

Thank you in advance for your answers.

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I'm not sure I understand.

Today you have a room with 3 configs.

You want to create derived configurations for these 3 main configurations, but that these derived configurations are handled by different excels.

Why not make a single family of parts that manages all the configurations?

It seems to me that you can only assign one part family per file.

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Hi, yes part families can handle derived configurations.

The best thing to do is to test it and you'll see that there  's nothing complicated. On the other hand, you will only have one excel table for all the configurations and derived configurations