loading 2005

You can 'hack' the SWBrowser.mdb file if you want.

Open it in Access and go to the table called Version. There is a field called CurrentVersion. Change the value to whatever value the error message says. Re-save the MDB file and you're done.

You may need to restart SW though.

Regards

Martin

Mr. Who Where is the "customize section"? Sorry maybe stupid question.

Mr. Who wrote:

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!! IT WORKED, I WENT IN WITH ACCESS AND CHANGED IT TO

Oh yeah, you only get customize button when doing a new install.

Control Panel -> Add/Remove Programs -> SolidWorks -> Modify button ->

Choose your SW type (pro, premium etc) and Next -> Uncheck toolbox as a SW add-in.

Then repeat and recheck toolbox as an add-in. This should reinstall the files and hopefully fix things up.

I see that the previously menti> Mr. Who

Nope - not endorsed by SW, but the file is a plain old Access database anyway. I've only ever had to do this once (when a SP didn't 'take' properly) and it didn't cause any waves ;-)

Martin

NO!!!! NO!!!!! NO!!!!! NO!!!! Don't hack your file!!!!!!!

Fix it the right way if you would have called your VAR you would have been directed to the correct way to fix it.

You have to use the UpdateBrowserData.exe

The reason the version is important is because the tables may change between releases. If you don't get the propper update you can cause a whole heap of problems in the future. The reason it didn't update is either you didn't point the install to the correct location or your swBrowser.mdbold file couldn't be overwritten.

e-mail me and I will send you a walk through document for this.

Corey

billyb wrote:

Mr. Wurz, You were such a big help getting my "hole wizard" working, (I went into access and changed the version number). I am not getting the toolbox to come up, it says its a "future version". The tree shows up and ends up with Bolt_AI.SLDPRT, but like I said, its says "future version". I did have SW 2006 on and took it off because I could not get it to work. Some things were set to future, now I am having trouble using the SW 2005 toolbox. Can you recommend a remedy like you did with the hole wizard?

wurz wrote:

Your VAR should be able to help you through the steps necassary to help you get 2006 up and running.

John Layne

Right now I just want to get my toolbox working in SW 2005

John Layne wrote:

I think really you need to be a reinstall of 05 - clean out the SW reg entries and any other lingering SW files.You will find details on the SW site how to do this properly.

It looks as if you are re-install territory - if you installed then un-installed 2006, you will most likely have a 2006 toolbox trying to work with 2005.

The only way around that is to re-install the 2005 toolbox after uninstalling the 2006 toolbox. If you are using a local toolbox directory, make sure that you remove Solidworks and the common data directiry aswell.

As was stated before in this thread, your VAR should sort this for you in a snip.

Billyb,

I can't stress enought that when you have problems like this you have to contact your VAR. The actions you just took will cause other problems. Try this find an assembly that you created using parts out of the toolbox........OK do you see the huge fasteners. They are huge because the actions you just took removed all the configuration data you had created through the use of toolbox in the past. There is no way to recover this data without re-inserting each fastener again. The reason you were having problems in the first place is because after you upgraded to 2006 you had updated each part file in the toolbox folders to 2006 and since no parametric modeler has backward compatability you can no longer open those files in 2005 the only way to recover your data in 2005 is to replace the files with the back-up you should have created before upgrading. I just hope you aren't sitting on alot of assemblies that used toolbox parts.

Sorry, Corey

billyb wrote: