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Despite
the fully featured SolidWorks Toolbox standards database,
you may from time to time want to add you own derived standards,
customized parts or features to the Toolbox and modify those
derived standards to your needs. Remember that when you update
to a newer service pack or upgrade to a newer version of SolidWorks
the toolbox gets updated as well, your customized data base
should remain intact but always keep a backup just in case.
Start by Selecting Tools, Options, under System Options, select
Data Options and then select the Edit Standards data button.
This will open the Configure Data window and you will see
a list of the standards in the database. To create a new derived
standard pick the standards icon at the top of the list. Then
on the right put in your new standards name and select a standard
to derive it from, then press the create new standard button.
You
will next see your new standard added near the bottom of the
list. You may then enter these individual added databases
and modify the data according to your needs. If you need to
add a new type of database that is not available based entirely
on the derived database then you will have to go a step deeper
than the user interface provides.
To
add a new type to the standard you will need to navigate to
the Toolbox browser generally found at C:\Program Files\Common
Files\Solidworks Data\lang\English, called “SWBrowser”.
You will need to open this with Microsoft Access and look
for the “User0” files near the end of the standards
list. Each successive addition of a new standard will up the
user number one, User1, User2, User3, etc.
In
Access there are a few database’s to modify to add the
new type, the first is the first is the Categories DB. Open
it and add a new line for your new type and give a Type ID
also, along with the appropriate settings in the other columns.
You
will also need to do a similar modification to the Types Database
Finally,
you will need to create the actually database of parts or
features for the new standard. In this case a new progressive
standard was created and modified, this particular standard
is available in the Hole Wizard types interface.
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