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Tool box Gearbox builds Help Urgently! Project is ticking

Question asked by Matthew McDonald on Aug 22, 2013
Latest reply on Aug 22, 2013 by Matthew McDonald
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Hi fellas,

 

I have tried every avenue I can think of... I am creating a planetary drive gear arangment. I am taking the part from tool box, ansi metric, and creating the correct ratios. The problem i am having is when i try to manipulate any of the parts, such as add circlip grooves into a spur arangment, they dont stay! I bring the spur into the assembley, i then open the part from its original assembley to modify, then i save and it changes the part within the assembley to what i desire. Then i save. Reopening the whole planetary assembley, the modified part looks like it did when i moded it, then it swithches back to the reference file part in solid works.

 

Now i have tried re referencing assembleies, parts, and still no luck. I have been messing around with this issue, utbing, and researching and still no answers. Can some guru out the help please!?

 

All I want is to use the tool box parts as templates, then save as my own to modify for use in a modelled assembley for this project, and possible 3d print them to, time permitting, not sure what can be done. Can this be done at all?

 

 

Regards,

 

Matthew

Matthew McDonald
Matthew McDonald Aug 22, 2013 8:01 AM
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Hi Chris,

 

Thanks for replying! I am new to tool box, I can utilise all the add in options, but everytime i modded a spur gear and put them into an assembley, they would turn back to original configuration... Until maybe now?!... https://forum.solidworks.com/message/252202#252202

I think this might be what im looking for... Will find out tomorrow at uni.

 

I tell you, its so dumb not to be promt, or offered a window to help guide you on how to go about saving custom tool box derived parts, i have wasted almost... 3 days... with countless others trying to help. Lucky I stumbled across this link...

 

To be fair, it hard to explain the issue really, I mean we all know that solidworks has folders lniking for parts and assembles, and we allknow how to deal with them, but tool box just thew us. I have tried dragging, saving, saveas, refernecing during saving, assemble into assembley, dirived parts from tool box dirived assembley save as and referenced. Couldnt dam well win! Hope others see this and send this link around for young players...

 

 

Thanks again Chris, Ill let you guys know if I have success first thing!

 

 

Regards,

 

Matthew

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