In the SOLIDWORKS system options, click on “Hole Wizard/Toolbox”, and browse to the correct folder. Usually, it is the one with the most recent creation date. First, determine which toolbox folder is the correct one.
Luckily, this is a very easy situation to fix. These would likely be found on your C-drive that be labeled like “SOLIDWORKS Data (2)”, “SOLIDWORKS Data(3)”, etc.
SOLIDWORKS may be pointing to a location that is an older version, or may be pointed to a folder location that doesn’t even exist.Ī related symptom of this issue is the extra “SOLIDWORKS Data” folders. The general cause for these errors is that you have had different versions of SOLIDWORKS installed and the new version is confused on where the correct toolbox information resides. This message doesn’t list where the software is looking, but does tell you where to access the settings to fix this issue. The other error message indicates that the database is found, but is from an older SOLIDWORKS version. It also lists the location where SOLIDWORKS is looking for the database. One error indicates that the database required for the Hole Wizard-Toolbox is not located. There are two slightly different error messages that may arise. It will appear for every single toolbox component as the assembly attempts to load them. In this last scenario, the error message will continue to pop-up several times. You may also encounter this problem while opening an assembly that contains a toolbox component. This error may show up when you attempt to create a new hole using the hole wizard or edit an existing hole wizard feature. Even if you do not have toolbox add-in, this can still affect you. The hole wizard and the tool-box add-in share the same database. Let’s take a closer look at the symptoms, how to repair the issue, and how we could have avoided this situation.Īfter the upgrade, you might see an error message when working with the hole wizard feature.
If you overlook the installation options for hole wizard and toolbox, you might encounter an unwelcome surprise. With service pack 1.0 now released, the wave of upgraders just increased. It is that time of year where many of us are upgrading to SOLIDWORKS 2018. SOLIDWORKS: What happened to my toolbox during upgrade?
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