Re: F*cking Toolbox!
- From: Markus Wankus <markusREMOVE_wankusALLCAPS@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 04:45:05 GMT
m_lombard@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Sun, 26 Feb 2006 21:14:38 GMT, Markus Wankus
<markus_REMOVEwankusALL_CAPS@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
... Every assembly I have opened from SW2005 that contains fasteners is completely hosed when I open it in 2006. Every single component, be it a washer, a SHCS, a hex nut, whatever - when I open it in 2006 and point it to the location of the toolbox, it opens some fricking default fastener that is like 1.0" in diameter and destroys everything!
Ah, yes, an attack of the dreaded Toolbox Virus. You have "huge
screws", my friend.
LOL. Yes, they were quite large. In fact they were *freakishly* huge in my comparatively puny assembly. ;o)
You can actually fix this problem if you haven't saved the assembly.
All you have to do is go through your Toolbox and create every
configuration of every type of hardware used in your assembly, and
then re-open the assembly. Now you'll have the configs your assembly
needs when it opens up. Shouldn't take more than a few hours.
Yup - I figured this out. Thanks for the response. I ended up just inserting the configs I needed into a dummy assembly and then re-opening the original assembly and everything worked.
Or another way of fixing it is to find the Toolbox installation where
the assembly came from and copy the old parts over your existing
parts. Just hope that it wasn't created by several different people
with their own installations of Toolbox (which, but the way, is the
defatult installation), because there isn't a good way to merge
existing TB parts with different sets of size configs.
Doing revisions with Toolbox? Ballsy. Good luck. Usually my
recommendation is to get things out of TB first, and then start doing
productive work. Even if the SW developers were evil and malicious
(which I know they aren't), they couldn't come up with worse settings
for TB than the default settings.
We don't really need to revision the toolbox. It is really just checked into the repository so that when people check out the tree of files, they have a shared copy of the toolbox as well without worrying about setting up a network share, etc. It seems to work so far. Hopefully it doesn't blow up in my face.
Thanks again,
Markus.
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