Navigate to the Hole Wizard/ Toolbox section of the System Options (Tools -> Options -> Hole Wizard/Toolbox) and click on the the "." button and select the SOLIDWORKS Data folder related to the version of SOLIDWORKS you have open. Download the correct SOLIDWORKS Data folder for your version of SOLIDWORKS that you are missing below:Ģ. Unblock the zip file (right-click it > click Properties > click on Unblock > click OK) and extract the folder to the local drive (C:\).ģ. For example, if you had custom cut-outs made for SOLIDWORKS 2016 you can toggle on the option to upgrade, navigate to the 2016 toolbox folder with the custom cut-outs, and SOLIDWORKS will create a copy of the folder to use in SOLIDWORKS 2017 and include the custom cut-outs.
Selecting this option will also allow you to upgrade previous years toolbox. If you have previously installed a version of SOLIDWORKS and are just re-installing, or you have a custom toolbox stored on a network drive, you can browse to that location, select it, and that folder will be the default toolbox for your installation of SOLIDWORKS.
Referencing the picture above, SOLIDWORKS will create a new folder for the toolbox during the installation and name it SOLIDWORKS Data (6) since this will be the 6th time SOLIDWORKS has been installed on this computer and 5 other SOLIDWORKS Data folders exist already, each for another version of SOLIDWORKS. If you have multiple versions installed the SOLIDWORKS data folder will add a number depending on how many SOLIDWORKS Data folders are already present. This will create a new SOLIDWORKS Data folder in the C:\ drive (local drive) that is unique to that version of SOLIDWORKS.
Clicking CHANGE will bring you to the following screen:Ĭreate a new SOLIDWORKS 20xx (where xx is the year) Toolbox If another version of SOLIDWORKS has been installed you will be asked to select an installation method for the new toolbox folder that SOLIDWORKS will use for the version you are installation. There are times where the replace option is selected, or SOLIDWORKS never creates a new toolbox folder and selects the next version available as the default and reference it within SOLIDWORKS. While installing SOLIDWORKS onto a computer you are given the option to change your Toolbox/ Hole Wizard folder in the summary tab:īy default, SOLIDWORKS should create a new toolbox during the installation. When launching SOLIDWORKS, using the Hole Wizard/ Toolbox function, or trying to access the Hole Wizard/ Toolbox section of the System Options you may see one of the following errors after a new installation/ update:
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