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Define user settings in Toolbox - SOLIDWORKS Tutorial
From the course: SOLIDWORKS: Tools Suite
Define user settings in Toolbox
- [Instructor] Once you've selected what Hole Wizard Options you have and what hardware you're going to be creating, you have to decide what happens to this hardware as you insert it into new part files or new assembly files. The typical way that it's done by default is you create a new configuration. So what that means is that each part file inside of your tool box library has a master part file. And as you drag and drop different versions or different sizes of that part into your assemblies, it just makes more configurations inside of that single part. This way you don't have one part with every single configuration available created, you just have a part that has the configurations that you use. You also have the ability to create a new part. So let's say that you're doing prototype designing and you don't share directories or you have a different data situation like that, every time you drag a part in you want it to make a new copy of that part in the working directory you're in…
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