Toolbox Problem... or is it me?

"Ba Humbug",

I have a Main Assembly and a New Assembly (that will be a subassembly for
the main assembly).

I am trying to simply add 4 PEM Studs to the New Assembly and "Drag & Drop"
is not working...

SolidWorks (Message Box):
Yellow Exclamation Triangle "A Document named "Flush Stud_PMI" is already
opened. Do you want to show this already-opened document?"

Can I "Close" this "already-opened" document? Do I erase it from the Main
Assembly Directory?

My practice has been that once an Assembly is in good working order. I find
References and copy it to a nice spanking new directory so that only the
parts in that directory belong in that directory - all the old unused
previous design iteration parts are left behind - they are not needed in
this new directory...

rant on
I am so tired of this message I want to go to Boston with a few "friends"
and "take care of this" personally.
rant off

Why does this happen on the New Assembly, I can understand it happening on
the Main Assembly (or at least it has never worked correctly so I put up
with it), but this is insane!!!! The Toolbox should put a piece of hardware
in an assembly, when and where I wish to put it - it is that simple.

Thanks for any insight and/or help...

Aron - "Scrooged" so far...

 

Woops forgot... SW 2006, SP5.0

 

I don't know about Toolbox in particular, but SW works on the premise that
you can only open one copy of a file of a particular name, regardless of
where they come from. I suspect it's a Windows function, but that's the way
it is. So, once you have opened a file, whether it opens all the way up so
you can edit the part, or you open it as part of an assy, either way you
have that file open in memory, and you can't open another file of the same
name until that one is closed.

If you keep getting that message, then my guess is that the assy is calling
for one of that file already and it's loaded in memory that way. If it's
the same file as you are trying to insert, and you need another config, then
use the open file. If it's the wrong file, then you need to find that
source and change it to the other one.

Now, how this all applies to your specific Toolbox issue, I don't know, but
a bit of insight may help.

WT