- #Where is the solidworks toolbox install#
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You might even find after using it for a while that what you really need is a custom standard.
True, you can, but why hasn’t it been done? This is the way it was installed, even though during the install you specified ANSI standard and Inch units.So you have to configure the standards a little. Yes, but you can trim down that list of standards so it isn’t nearly as irrelevant. (There are also other ways to get parts into an assembly.) But before you do that, this is what you are confronted with, shown in the image to the right: a list of standards.
Toolbox is used by drag and dropping Items from the Task Pane into the Solidworks graphics window. This is the user’s first clue that Toolbox is not just a library, it’s also an application, software. What I am talking about here is mostly the Browser. It is really 2 add-ins, SolidWorks Toolbox and SolidWorks Toolbox Browser. Toolbox is an add-in, so you have to activate it using the Tools, Add-ins menu. You can browse and edit the file using Microsoft Access. The database is called SWBrowser.mdb, is typically located in a folder called C:/SolidWorks Data/lang/English, and for SW09 sp3.0 is 87.876 MB. By default the Toolbox database installs locally, but it can also be placed on a network for a shared install. There are many options during install in 2009, and I’ll talk about those in a futurearticle. By default Toolbox installs as a single user installation, where the library is local. So in a nutshell, here is how SolidWorks Toolbox works: So you could say that it helps some of the time, and just gives you something to undo some of the time. The problem is that it only really works that way in special situations. SF enables you to automatically place the correct sized hardware into holes automatically. It is better than just a library because of things like Smart Fasteners. 
So having software and extra data in a database is extra, and should be better, shouldn’t it? If you have a real library, all you have is #2.
Database – contains all of the dimensional and “metadata” used in the finished parts. Library of blanks – SolidWorks parts used as templates, which contain all of the geometrical options available. Toolbox application – software that “does stuff”. This may or may not be an important distinction for you. With Toolbox, you tell it the class of thing that you want, and it builds it for you. When I think of a “library”, I think of a place where I can go to get something that is there, something that exists. It may be picking nits, but strictly speaking, neither one of these statements is true. 
They call it a “Standard Hardware Library”, and say that you have access to “pre-built SolidWorks models”. The image to the left shows how SolidWorks describes Toolbox in their Product Matrix.
Toolbox may not be exactly what you think it is. Toolbox is not a topic that you can talk about in a single long blog post, there is just too much there, if you’re gonna do the topic justice.
It has started from the series on CAD Admin. This is part 1 in a series just on Toolbox.
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