loading 2005

I tried loading 2005 SW and got the error message "The database file
C:\Program Files\Common File\Solidworks
Data\lang\english\swbrowser.mdb" is not the expected version (9.02).
This comes up when I try to used hole wizard.

I did have other versions, i.e. SW 2006,04,02 on my computer at times.
These are not on the computer anymore.

How can I solve this problem? Help is appreciated.

 

Try add/remove programs and modify. Make sure you have toolbox added
in under the customize section. if it is already added then try a
repair or remove toolbox and then add it back. Hopefully this will
repair the incorrect toolbox file.

 

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

 

Manually editing SolidWorks data files seems like a really bad idea.
Was this fix endorsed by SW?

 

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

 

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!! IT WORKED, I WENT IN WITH ACCESS AND CHANGED IT TO
9.02 (IT WAS 10.3 OR SOMETHING). ANYWAY, I DID AS YOU SUGGESTED. I
REOPENED SW, AND THE HOLE WIZARD WORKED.
THANK YOU SO MUCH, VERY MUCH APPRECIATED!!!!!

 

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 mentioned fix did work, but I would have
serious reservations about altering that access db value without
knowing the ramifications.

 

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

 

Actually now that I read your post again I see the expected version is
earilier than the current version indicating it may have been updated
by an installation of sw2006. Do you have that installed. If so you
will have problems again when you try to use it in 2006.

 

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?

 

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

John Layne
www.solidengineering.co.nz

 

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

 

I tried this Add/Remove approach with my toolbox problem. Did not work.
The problem I feel is that I have a "future" version of SW 2006 in the
program for toolbox, it tells me as much when I try to use it.. How I
get back to the SW2005 version is the problem.

 

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.

 

IT WORKED, THANKS FOR THE SUGGESTION, MY TOOLBOX IS WORKING
I GOT RID OF THE COMMOND DATA FOLDER IN ADDITON TO THE UNINSTALL
AND THEN RELOADED OR REINSTALLED

 

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