Solidworks toolbox fasteners
We love Solidworks, but the toolbox and smart fasteners are really pissing us off. It also screw up our assemblies because we loose all the configurations we have created for the fasteners. This gives us a clean slate to start with, but we loose all of our p/n's and descriptions we have entered for the fastners. By dragging and dropping these directly into your assembly, you. For information about configuring Toolbox, see Configuring Toolbox. You can add fasteners to an assembly as a configuration of an existing part or as a copy of an existing part.
#Solidworks toolbox fasteners professional#
It works closely with SOLIDWORKS Toolbox (which is included in SOLIDWORKS Professional and above) to use its library of fasteners and predefined hardware such as nuts, bolts, screws and washers. Smart Fasteners are added based on the Files options in the SOLIDWORKS Toolbox - User Settings dialog box.
#Solidworks toolbox fasteners series#
We have tried completly wiping out the toolbox in the past. Smart Fasteners is an assembly technique that automatically adds fasteners to holes, hole series or patterns of holes in your assembly. The preview bitmaps will be created dynamically from the file which may take longer to process." We first started noticing slow performance after seeing this error.Īny idea what is causing this our how we can fix this. Several times I have gotten an error that says "Error writing preview bitmaps. It takes around 30 seconds for a fastener to appear on the screen after I drag it out of the tool box. Our major problem is the toolbox seems very slow when inserting fasteners. This setting will control if these settings will be companywide or if they can be configured by individual users. This can add 5 to 10 minutes to the check in time for an assembly. Smart fasteners settings control what hardware files from the toolbox are used when a user activates the smart fastener feature within Solidworks. It acts like it is checking in the fasteners and taking up to a minute to check each fastener in. We are experiencing a problem while checking in assemblies that have toolbox fasteners.
We are sharing the toolbox on a network drive on our Win 2000 server. Toolbox Fasteners and Slow PDMWorks Check In.