SW 2010 SP4 64 bit. When I start a new assembly and insert a toolbox part (bolt, washer or nut) it comes in as a "PreviewCfg). This is also what will show up in the BOM. I have to manually choose the properties of each individual part and tell it, again, what I want it to be. This had already been specified while inserting the part.
Very frustrating!
Hal
Thanks Jeff, We are not getting any answers from SW either.
Whatever it's worth, I added an "idea" for this topic to allow use of user-generated (custom) templates for Toolbox parts, which should allow us to eliminate this problematic hassle.
Will watch to see where that goes. Thanks
I've been told by Solidworks to deal with it for the time being!
You could try the following steps in the following order:
1. add in your toolbox.
2. open the assembly in which the previewcfg parts are placed. Uncheck "light weigth" and "large assembly mode" beforehand
3. Press open
the toolbox creates the missing parts on your local drive.
Good luck
Yes, I see this all the time myself.
If we could at least get Toolbox to use the part templates of our choosing by default, perhaps much of this hassle could be eliminated. Built into the template, for instance, we could specify using something useful as the part name in the BOM, such as the part's actual name, or description, or whatever we want. "PreviewCfg" is utterly useless, and always has been. Is there a way to apply any sort of useful changes to this current system from the user's side? (I've not seen anything useful from the SolidWorks side.)