×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

toolbox insertions

toolbox insertions

toolbox insertions

(OP)
Hi all
Ive posted related problems to this previously and have been wrestling with a solution for a while. We are on SW2005 sp5.0 in a multiuser environment. On insertion of certain hardware the following message comes up, "The document "Socket Head Cap Screw_AI" is already opened, do you want to show this aready opened document?". Click No, and the "drag and drop fails", yes, will insert the screw but only once. If multiple insertions are necessary, the process is repeated. Also, there is no preview of the part, only an icon of a rectangle and plus sign(?).
Seems this issue is related to a specific part file(socket head cap screw) mostly, but I've seen this issue with some other hardware types. VAR has no reference to this issue.
Any similar experiences to toolbox? Thanks

RE: toolbox insertions

I have the same problem in SW 2007, I'll be waiting for a solution as well.
RG

RE: toolbox insertions

(OP)
R18
have you uncovered anything related to this issue with toolbox?

RE: toolbox insertions

I've seen this crop up when the assembly is opening a toolbox part that was copied outside the toolbox folder to some other location. Then when I tried to drag another instance of the part from the toolbox library, it gave that message cause it was already using it from a different location.

Jason

UG NX2.02.2 on Win2000 SP3
UG NX4.01.0 on Win2000 SP3
SolidWorks 2007 SP2.2 on WinXP SP2

RE: toolbox insertions

(OP)
Gildashard
What was the fix fir thi issue? As far as I can tell, all toolbox parts are coming from the  network located data base, as pathed to by toolbox.ini. Thanks

RE: toolbox insertions

Open the assembly and use "File/References" and make sure none of the toolbox parts are loading from a different location.

In my case, the fix was to delete the offending toolbox part file that was copied to the project folder. Solidworks then loaded the version from the toolbox library and the drag insert worked fine again.

Am guess this problem doesn't affect all your toolbox parts you try to insert?

Jason

UG NX2.02.2 on Win2000 SP3
UG NX4.01.0 on Win2000 SP3
SolidWorks 2007 SP2.2 on WinXP SP2

RE: toolbox insertions

(OP)
Ive checked references and in this case, I have only a single reference to the screw type(socket head cal screw_ai). Your are correct in stating this doesnt happen with all screw types.

RE: toolbox insertions

What happens if you try to insert this part into an new assembly?

Jason

UG NX2.02.2 on Win2000 SP3
UG NX4.01.0 on Win2000 SP3
SolidWorks 2007 SP2.2 on WinXP SP2

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources