Toolbox in multi-site environment

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Working with a Solidworks 2012 fixed license, I used the Toolbox copiously for all the bolting of my assemblies.

In a golable strategy, I now have a more powerful workstation and with SolidWorks 2012 as a floating license.

All my general plans have the bolts in the tree in grey and this has disappeared from the assemblies in the graphics window.

On the other hand, new and future assemblies use the group's SolidWorks Toolbox.

 

How to be compatible for "old" and new plans?

No longer use the Toolbox like many colleagues for other reasons, downloading the components from partcommunity or similar?

To be able to copy the files of the Toolbox from another independent workstation and have the paths? How do I manage Toolbox DLLs and EXEs?

 

Dassault has certainly thought about this evolution in companies and found a solution so that it does not have to take back all the standardized parts of an aircraft 1 to 1

 

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you need the same toolbox as everyone else

so make copies of the toolbox that exists and works for all workstations

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See this topic already covered on the site

http://www.lynkoa.com/forum/3d/elements-de-toolbox

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See also these tutorials

http://www.lynkoa.com/tutos/3d/solidworks-toolbox-et-smart-fasteners

http://www.lynkoa.com/tutos/3d/presentation-toolbox

http://www.lynkoa.com/tutos/nouveautes-toolbox-2012-solidworks-fevrier-2012-web-l

http://www.lynkoa.com/tutos/3d/fonction-bibliotheque-dans-solidworks

http://www.lynkoa.com/tutos/3d/creation-des-propriete-de-toolbox-avec-excel
 
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Hello

If the toolbox components are in a particular folder (default: c:\SolidWorks Data), you can use the sldsetdocprop.exe utility (which is found here by default: C:\Program Files\SolidWorks Corp\SolidWorks\Toolbox\data utilities or do a Windows search) to break the links with the toolbox on the entire folder.

See this thread:

http://www.lynkoa.com/forum/3d/enlever-le-lien-toolbox-d-une-piece

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Hello

You have to share your ToolBox on a server  that is easier than copying to all the workstations, especially when updating:

http://help.solidworks.com/2012/french/SolidWorks/toolbox/c_Toolbox_Adminstration_Overview.htm?id=a41f1475bbf64eb6ba09cf8217685310#Pg0

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Personally the ToolBOX, I don't use it....

 

Dassault did not design these aircraft with SolidWorks but CATIA.

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Toolbox should be about 1GB, you can use a free Dropbox account (2go) to share your Dropbox on all your PCs. If your PCs have internet access of course.

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Thank you all.

Going on vacation, I will look at the answers after May 18.

To answer briefly, I am not the one who decides on multinational group policy, hence the toolboxes in other places. Other colleagues who have had problems with the toolbox don't use it.

I should have access to the toolbox of the 2 sites for the old plans and the compatibility for the new ones with the group.

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Hello

Sorry for not answering and thank you.

I left the company and SolidWorks and haven't been back on Linkoa since.