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Toolbox available in SW Professional?

Question asked by Tom Cates on Jul 11, 2012
Latest reply on Jul 16, 2012 by Keith Parker

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I am wondering if the toolbox add-in is available in SW Professional. I don't understand why it would be limited to a particular version at all as an independent feature, but my reseller can't tell me if I do or do not own a version of SW that has the toolbox. Is it limited to a certain release, and is Pro one of these releases? The difference in this is either me getting this toolbox working like it should for what I have (Pro), or spending $2K more to upgrade my SW to get the toolbox to function. HELP!

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Steve Ostrovsky Jul 11, 2012 4:37 PM
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Yes Toolbox is included in Professional. Go to your Tools > Add-ins and it should be listed there to turn on.

And your reseller should be able to tell you what version of SolidWorks you have. I'm a reseller and can look that up in a matter of minutes.
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Jody Stiles Jul 11, 2012 11:28 PM
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Hi Tom,

As Steve said; Toolbox is included with Professional and also Premium. I'm curious as to why your VAR couldn't tell you if Toolbox is included in Professional or not. It's not a seperate module that needs to be purchased.

For setup - Sal Lama had written some how-to's back in 2009. They are still relevant and can be found here.
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Deepak Gupta Jul 11, 2012 11:42 PM
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Tom in addtion to abovre suggestions, go to Help > About SolidWorks (in an open SolidWorks window) and check what it says. If it shows Professional or premium, then you do have toolbox.

Make sure you've installed it, so I would also suggest to run a repair installation run of SolidWorks and make sure Toolbox is selected in the installation.
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Kevin De Smet Jul 14, 2012 8:53 AM
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I'm curious as to how an assembly with toolbox components created in a seat of SolidWorks Professional, behaves when opened in a SolidWorks Standard. Does anybody have experience with this?
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- Alin Vargatu @ Kevin De Smet on Jul 14, 2012 8:56 AM
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  Should open it without any problem.
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- Keith Parker @ Kevin De Smet on Jul 16, 2012 6:15 AM
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  Assuming the Standard & Prem/Pro users share the same file store, if the assembly done in Pro/Prem using Toolbox parts leaves those Toolbox parts unsaved local to the assembly (i.e. keeping them as pseudo-virtual parts loaded only by the Toolbox), the Toolbox parts don't load into Standard and the Standard user is left with no Toolbox components in his assembly. However, if the Premium/Pro user does a Pack & Go, the Toolbox parts are saved out as stand-alone parts so the Standard user will have them as parts in the assembly.
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