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Edits to Hole Wizard standards are not being saved

Question asked by Doug Seibel on Feb 22, 2021
Latest reply on Feb 22, 2021 by Michael Miller

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Okay...we are pulling our hair out. When we go into system options, hole wizard/toolbox, configure, hole wizard...and edit/change a standard & save...it does not save/update/change.

We go to the standard we want to change...

We change it to the new size we want it to default to...and hit save...

Yet when we put in that hole in Solidworks, it defaults to the old size...

And when we go into the hole wizard standards, it no longer reflects the size change that we had made and saved...

We have even deleted that line, saved, and when we go back into it, that line is back. GRRRR!

HELP!?

Has anyone come across this before?

Edited to add:

We are using Solidworks 2019 SP5.0

We have full admin rights to the files & folders in question

The standard we are trying to edit is a copy that we created, so that we could edit it

We do not use PDM

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Josh Brady Feb 22, 2021 1:07 PM
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Write permission issue to the folder where the hole wizard DB is?
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- Doug Seibel @ Josh Brady on Feb 22, 2021 1:17 PM
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  Working off the local drive with full admin rights to the folders.
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Jeremiah Feist Feb 22, 2021 1:11 PM
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I thought you could not edit the out of the box standards beyond turning pits on and off - if you wanted custom sizes you needed to make a copy of the standard first (like with the material db)
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- Doug Seibel @ Jeremiah Feist on Feb 22, 2021 1:20 PM
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  The standard being edited...MSI DME...is not an out of the box standard...it is a copy that was created in order to customize the sizes.
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  - Jeremiah Feist @ Doug Seibel on Feb 22, 2021 1:41 PM
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    so it is - it has been a while since I edited the hole wizard, and I thought there was more of a separation in the tree for out of the box vs. custom.
    
    which way are you editing the value? typing in the edit box? or exporting the table to excel, edit, and re-import? (maybe try the other method?)
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    - Doug Seibel @ Jeremiah Feist on Feb 22, 2021 1:46 PM
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      We have attempted changing it using both of the methods you listed, and neither of them have worked.
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      - Jeremiah Feist @ Doug Seibel on Feb 22, 2021 1:50 PM
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        ok, lets get more extreme
        
        have you tried deleting that particular size and re-adding it? (after saving and closing and making sure it was removed )
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        Josh Brady @ Jeremiah Feist on Feb 22, 2021 2:03 PM
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        Jeremiah Feist wrote:
        
        ok, lets get more extreme
        
        have you tried deleting that particular size and re-adding it? (after saving and closing and making sure it was removed )
        Or you can get even more extreme.... Grab a db driver for sqlite and directly edit (a copy of) the file using Access:
        
        https://forum.solidworks.com/thread/231472?commentID=996486#comment-996486
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        Doug Seibel @ Jeremiah Feist on Feb 22, 2021 2:12 PM
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        I have tried deleting the size and re-adding it as a new size...still reverts back after saving.
        I have tried making a copy of the standard and then editing it...nope...that doesn't work either.
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Scott Perman Feb 22, 2021 1:24 PM
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I had lots of similar issues with the 2019 Hole Wizard. That is what pushed me to move to 2020.
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- Doug Seibel @ Scott Perman on Feb 22, 2021 2:35 PM
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  I just tried to do it in 2020 SP5.0, exact same problem.
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Hubert Carle Feb 22, 2021 1:33 PM
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Just a thought, are you using PDM? Check put the file?
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- Doug Seibel @ Hubert Carle on Feb 22, 2021 1:34 PM
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  No, we do not use PDM.
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Hubert Carle Feb 22, 2021 2:28 PM
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Another thought, Check your file locations. Are you pointing to the right one. We had this happen to us in the past. Kept editing a file but it wasn't the file the SW was looking to for the information.
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- Doug Seibel @ Hubert Carle on Feb 22, 2021 2:38 PM
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  Yes, we are pointing to the correct file location.
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Michael Miller Feb 22, 2021 2:39 PM
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Check out SPR 1150428. I know it's not exactly the same as your issue, but they could be related....
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- Doug Seibel @ Michael Miller on Feb 22, 2021 2:44 PM
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  Can you supply a link to that SPR?
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  - Michael Miller @ Doug Seibel on Feb 22, 2021 2:48 PM
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    Here you go.
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