#Solidworks toolbox adding custom parts install#

The real problem is that Toolbox is not just the library. Customers would be much better served with a complete view. Manufacturers only shine light on the happy side of the street. This is why 3rd party documentation is so important. You get the list of what the options are supposed to do without information about the potential downsides. Going back to the Learn More link in the warning above, they just give you a list of options, without really helping you to interpret that information. But itРІР‚в„ўs like throwing a grenade in your data if you are working with someone else. Using configurations for sizes is very convenient if you are new and alone. The real problem was (and still is) that SolidWorks installs Toolbox with the most dangerous settings that you could come up with if you were a malevolent creep trying to sabotage someone elseРІР‚в„ўs SolidWorks assembly data. Just uninstall Toolbox, and make your own library.Use Toolbox to make the separate files and then turn it off.Use the separate file option rather than configurations for sizes.Just create all the sizes for all users.Copy a library around to all local users after a new size is added.

#Solidworks toolbox adding custom parts install#

Use a network install of Toolbox where everybody uses the same library.There are several remedies for this, but you have to know them ahead of time, so new users were very susceptible to Huge Screws: At least it made it easy to find the problem. So SolidWorks opens the assembly with the last used configuration, and people used to wind up with what we called РІР‚СљHuge ScrewsРІР‚Сњ, where every Toolbox part was replaced with the default configuration, which in many cases was the largest one. The problem comes when one Toolbox user shares an assembly with another Toolbox user, but the 1st user has created new sizes that the 2nd user doesnРІР‚в„ўt have yet. Screw types start out with only one size, with the rest of the sizes being stored in a database, and only created when used. Standard options are to use each screw type as a separate file, with sizes being configurations within that file. Toolbox now comes with a standard disclaimer. But maybe some of the old info could use a little freshening up. In a way itРІР‚в„ўs a little shocking to me, because writing about things IРІР‚в„ўve already written about is just a little too easy. I just assume a lot of people know all of this stuff, but on the SW Forums, I see a whole new generation of people who donРІР‚в„ўt know any of it. IРІР‚в„ўve been writing a blog in one form or another for 12 years, and kept a webpage with several user group type presentations on it for probably 10 years before that. Plus, stuff just changes, so you generally have to relearn even if you donРІР‚в„ўt forget anything.Р”Р„nother thing IРІР‚в„ўve learned is that good information is worth repeating. IРІР‚в„ўve forgotten and had to re-learn a lot of things. One thing IРІР‚в„ўve learned is that stuff is easy to forget. IРІР‚в„ўve learned a lot in my time working with the SolidWorks tools.