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You will be given the option to install a new toolbox or upgrade an existing toolbox. If you have done any customization of the toolbox you will need to choose to upgrade otherwise you will lose all customization.
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. 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. It is necessary to allow your first installation to finish upgrading the toolbox before you update all the other client machines.
Menu Toggle navigation. A choice you will need to make with regard to installing the toolbox is: Should I install it on the local machine? As compared to having and incremental implementation.
To activate the toolbox permissions simply create a password and security phrase to lock the toolbox. After this has been created all users wishing to change locked aspects will need the administration code to do so. This limits the users from being able to make changes with unintended consequences. Each setting has a specific purpose.
The user settings only control the settings for the toolbox settings program. These options do not pertain to any settings contained within Solidworks. Smart fasteners settings control what hardware files from the toolbox are used when a user activates the smart fastener feature within Solidworks. This setting will control if these settings will be companywide or if they can be configured by individual users.
The toolbox has a variety of settings that require configuration for the best utilization of the toolbox program. These control how the toolbox functions internally along with what data will be displayed to the user while they utilize the toolbox inside of solidworks.
The first major setting is whether toolbox will create parts or configurations when hardware of a new configuration is used. This is an internal setting and will not change how the user interacts with the toolbox utility.
Create configurations will add a new configuration to an existing toolbox file each time a new toolbox size is used. This will lead to very large files with a large number of configurations. This setting can see reduced performance in large assemblies. Create Parts will create a library of files each file representing a single configuration of a toolbox file with a single specific size.
This setting will create a large volume of part files but each of these will have a very small file size. Create Parts on Ctrl-Drag is a hybrid of the two versions previously mentioned, it will act like create configurations except for when users press CTRL while dragging components onto the screen.
If either method that causes the creation of parts is selected. A folder location will need to be defined to have generated part files deposited into. Writing to read-only documents this setting is typically left in its default state, this controls the read-only state of the part files in toolbox. This just gives the program the right to change the read-only flag. If either file setting that has create configurations active this setting should be set to allowing toolbox to change read-only status.
Part numbers , allowing the same part number for geometrically equal components can be useful when a hardware component has several custom properties that generate different configurations even though the component will have identical geometry. This does not allow the user to enter the same part number for non-similar components. Display options control what information about the hardware is visible to the user and in what context. It can be any custom toolbox property defined by the user.
All hardware in the toolbox contains standard properties, the individual properties will vary based on the type of component selected. These properties include all the basic construction data about these pieces of hardware. To view or edit the standard properties choose a component inside of the toolbox and the user will be presented by a window similar to the one below. It will also have the Solidworks part file that contains the geometry for this part file along with a couple settings.
The enabled setting allows or restricts users the ability to use this component within Solidworks. This allows the toolbox to be edited to match company standards by disabling and or adding sizes that match what hardware is available to the user s.
Once this data has been entered the new size will populate in the list on the right and will be available to users within Solidworks.
Thread Data: This property is very similar to the size and length area of the toolbox, with some minor changes. The user cannot allow or restrict the thread data properties like size and length. Adding custom thread sizes to the toolbox follows the same process as adding sizes and lengths, to use this new thread data the user will also need to also add a new size that calls on the newly added thread data. When adding custom bolt sizes with unique thread data it is recommended that users add new thread data entries vs modifying existing thread data inside the toolbox.
This controls the detail the toolbox components contain when included into an assembly. The thread rendering will have a noticeable performance impact on large assemblies, for best performance use Simplified but for the most realistic appearance use Schematic.
Color: The last setting in the standard properties is color, this can be used to very obviously set the color of a component. Once this setting is opened it will be possible to select a color for the component from one of 48 available with the option to toggle back to the default color above. Not all custom components manually added to the toolbox will have the same functionality as components that come preinstalled with the tool.
An example is a nylon locking hex nut vs a standard hex nut. In this case the toolbox will have the same functionality as the design library and it recommended to use the design library instead of adding these components to the toolbox. Right click on the hardware component and select copy, then paste the component in the desired location in the toolbox.
Once this has be finished toolbox will generate a new solidworks part file for this new component. This part file can be edited to add features to represent the changes in geometry. Using relationships to scale the features is recommended as the features added will need to be valid for all component sizes.
First, all possible configurations for the component need to be prefabricated. Second, each configuration will need their relevant custom properties IE part number, size etc. Once this has been done launch the toolbox settings 20XX program or configure the toolbox. Once here navigate to the folder in which this custom component should reside. It is possible to create folders as well to contain these custom components.
The toolbox has 3 default data fields for all hardware components, these are: Part numbers, Descriptions, Comments. A user or admin can either the data manually into the toolbox setting program using the fields included in the toolbox configure window.
Or a faster option is the user can export the data to an excel table and populate it using excel or any other 3rd party applications that will work with excel file types. Once this data has been populated the toolbox will need to be saved. Once this has finished the new information will then be available for all users when they insert this hardware into an assembly.
When entering a large volume of data this approach will be much more efficient. Using this method will require 3 steps. The exported excel document will have several sections, these dictate where information should be stored as well as provide information about the hardware this document is used to specify.
Any custom rows added that do not match existing size data will be excluded during the import.
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