Un-funny Things Happening in my SW Toolbox

Hi,

Every time a place certain things from the toolbox, in this case 6-32 CLS Pem Nuts,

I get this warning:

"A document named "Self-cinching Nut_PMI" is already opened. Do you want to show this already-opened document?"

I do not have anything opened, other than the sheet metal part I wish to add this hardware to.

The strange thing is that I can bring in a M2.5x0.45 Pem Nut and it is the normal dialog, i.e. the transparent Pem Nut which tries to mate up with the hole as you approach it.

- In Contrast -

The 6-32 Pem Nut shows only a "+" at the cursor, and when you approach the hole and release the mouse button, the dialog begins with the above mentioned warning.

Why does this happen and how do I get all of my toolbox to act "normal".

I have gone as far as to completely uninstall SW and then reinstall. Deleting file directories and also gong thru the registry... This is driving me insane!

The notes I have read online about making sure certain directories are read only, etc. have been done before the reinstall. I felt if a reinstall was done it would clear up this problem... yeh right!

SW2005, SP3.1

Thanks for any help,

Aron

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Aron Bacs, Jr.
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Hello Aron

We have the same problem. In our situation the problem was that w

made a copy of the assembly with the solidworks explorer. Normall all toolbox files are stored in the "toolbox-directory". After th copy we had the toolbox parts in the same directory as the assembl and we got the error message. Remove the toolbox parts from you "working directory" and it should work normally

Dir

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dhoeks

Thanks Dirk,

I will give it a try...and let you know!

Aron

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Aron Bacs, Jr.

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