Greetings.
I had the 2016 version and recently installed the solidworks version 20017/2018 and when I try to use the hold wizzard, it tells me that the drill database can not be found.
I already tried uninstalling the antivirus and even and uninstalled and reinstalled the solidworks and it still does not work.
When you upgraded versions, did you upgrade/update the toolbox?
Is the path correct to the data?
Are you using PDM?
If not Are the toolbox local or on a server?
Take a look at this:
How to manually update the SOLIDWORKS Toolbox - Innova Systems
raphy, I'm not 100% on this as I haven't seen that specific issue before but my first thought would be to verify that the directory it's looking for has not changed due to your recent install. There are at least 3 spots you can check (possibly more if you're running SW2018, we're not so I can't confirm) to ensure the directory it's looking for is found.
This is where you find the path to the hole wizard data base. What does your's show?
Something like this,
when installing multipleversions i found it best to rename the solidworks installation location,
and tool box location to include year of version, This way there is no mixing up versions
If you tell the SolidWorks installer you want a separate install it generally will provide separate names and not overwrite the already installed versions. I tried providing my own names once and had issues. Letting SW do it, I have not had any issues especially with the HW database file (I have 6 versions of SW installed on my computer and the only issue I have not been able to solve is SW always points to the previous version's templates and formats).
