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1. TOOLBOX IN SOLIDWORKS INSTALL
2. TOOLBOX IN SOLIDWORKS UPDATE
3. TOOLBOX IN SOLIDWORKS UPGRADE
4. TOOLBOX IN SOLIDWORKS PROFESSIONAL

It is necessary to allow your first installation to finish upgrading the toolbox before you update all the other client machines. It will display ‘Use Installed Toolbox’ next to Toolbox installation method.

TOOLBOX IN SOLIDWORKS UPGRADE

Once the toolbox has been upgraded on the server, when you upgrade all the other clients the installation manager will see that the toolbox on the server is at the correct version and will not try to upgrade it during the installation process. Once you have selected to upgrade the toolbox, click back to summary and the changes you have made will be shown as per the image.

To get to this page, click change on the summary page next to Toolbox\Hole Wizard options. If you have done any customization of the toolbox you will need to choose to upgrade otherwise you will lose all customization.

TOOLBOX IN SOLIDWORKS INSTALL

You will be given the option to install a new toolbox or upgrade an existing toolbox. If you are upgrading to a new major version of SOLIDWORKS. I would always advise that you use this option. So if you open an assembly with toolbox references, it will force them to open from the toolbox file that you have specified in tools->options->system options->Hole Wizard/Toolbox. In SOLIDWORKS 2011 a new option was included in within the toolbox options to always your specified toolbox folder as the default search location for toolbox files. If you’ve ever opened up an assembly and seen that the toolbox files are unusually large – this is probably what has happened. If it is not opening the toolbox file from the active toolbox folder (the one specified in tools->options->system options->Hole Wizard/Toolbox) and the configuration of toolbox file does not exist in that folder, then it will not automatically create the configuration and revert to the default (preview cfg) configuration. What can happen if the Toolbox isn’t installed correctly?Ī problem that can arise from having multiple toolboxes installed on the same machine is where SOLIDWORKS opens the toolbox files from. I tend to suffix the SOLIDWORKS data folder with the year version as per the image, but you can call the folder whatever you like. In this case I would recommend giving each folder its own unique name. Each version needs its own unique SOLIDWORKS Data folder. One example is where you need to run multiple versions of SOLIDWORKS on the same machine (e.g. There are some cases where you may need multiple toolboxes on your system. What should I do if I need to install multiple Toolboxes? If this is the case, find which SOLIDWORKS Data folder you are currently using in SOLIDWORKS (tools–>options->system options->Hole Wizard/Toolbox) – Keep that one, and delete/archive the rest. We see that when people uninstall/reinstall SOLIDWORKS on their machines, they end up with multiple SOLIDWORKS Data Folders on their systems which can look like this image. If you have installed the toolbox on the local machine, you need to make sure that you only have 1 SOLIDWORKS Data folder. If this has not been done it can lead to problems later on – Particularly when receiving SOLIDWORKS assembly files with toolbox references from users who do have a local toolbox. It is very important once all the clients are pointing to the server toolbox that any traces of the local SOLIDWORKS Data folder are removed from the local machines. To do this simply go in tools->options->system options->Hole Wizard/Toolbox and change the path to the server location as shown in the image. Once the SOLIDWORKS Data folder has been moved it will be necessary to point all client installations to the server toolbox. In fact I would recommend moving the folder after because there are likely to be less issues with permissions and the install will be quicker because you are writing to the local machine The default location it installs to is C:\SolidWorks Data, but this can be changed during the install or alternatively you can move the entire SOLIDWORKS Data folder to the server after the install.

TOOLBOX IN SOLIDWORKS PROFESSIONAL

The toolbox is installed automatically when installing SOLIDWORKS professional or above. However, if it is on a server location you can ask your I.T administrator to create a backup of it. For a single user it doesn’t matter too much. So it makes sense that all users are working from the same toolbox so they can use those customisations. The toolbox is customizable – part numbers, descriptions, materials can be applied to the individual fixings within the toolbox. If you are working in a multi user environment, then I would certainly recommend installing toolbox on the server. This decision will ultimately be based on whether you are working in a multi user environment or not. Should I install it on the local machine? A choice you will need to make with regard to installing the toolbox is: