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Forming tool not working.

Question asked by 1-23M-1041 on Feb 8, 2008
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When I try to drag and drop any of my forming tools onto my sheetmetal part I get the following message:
Are you trying to make a derived part?
Also there is a "+" by my cursor when trying to drop the feature.
Can someone tell me what I'm doing wrong?

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Bill Reuss Feb 8, 2008 12:06 PM
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One of our users had this same issue earlier this week. In his case, his forming tool was a part file, *.SLDPRT. He had not saved it as a forming tool file *.SLDFTP.

Hope this helps.
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Gerald Davis Feb 8, 2008 12:13 PM
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Kurt -
The folder that you're dragging the forming tools from needs to be marked as a "Forming Tools Folder" - in the Design Library pane, just right click on the folder name and select the option "Forming Tools Folder".

SW needs this setting in order to distinguish between parts and forming tools.
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- Drew H @ Gerald Davis on Feb 8, 2008 12:52 PM
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  Seems like this topic ranks up there with backwards compatability.
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- 1-23M-1041 @ Gerald Davis on Feb 8, 2008 1:16 PM
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  Thanks Gerald, I "thought" is was marked correctly, but when I right clicked ans selected forming tools folder, it worked.
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