Toolbox set-up questions

We are new to Solidworks and are in the process of setting up the
environment. We wish to configure toolbox as a catalog parts
repository. We want to limit the number of users who can add parts
to the toolbox. Initially we setup the toolbox on a shared folder on
our server and set the permissions of this folder for everyone to
have read access but only the selected users for write access. It
seems that SolidWorks needs every user to have write access to the
the lang/englis/SWbrowser.mdb and partslib sub-folders. Is this
correct or am I missing something? If this is true how is the data
protected from any user making changes?

Thanks in advance

 

Yes they need Full access to the DB file. How can they change it? They
really can't unless they open up the TB file (e.g. Bolt) and modifiy it
there. But if they are adding bolts to an assembly all they are doing is
making new configurations of that file. They are not changing the existing
configurations, only adding new ones.

If you Only want selected users to have access then you shouldn't have TB
for those users. Maybe a SNL would work better for you. With SNL you only so
many licenses can be out at any one time. Or If you do use Standalone seats
of SW, then only get some with Office and some without Office.

Regards,
Scott

 

Scott,

If I understand correctly then the DB folder has to be writable by
everyone but can only be changed when editing the part. We have set
the /browser folder to restrict writing to only the select few as we
wish to control how parts are created, do you see any problem with
this?

Mark HP>

 

We set our Tool Box/Browser folder (and subfolders) to read-only and
it works fine for us. SWX creates any of the parts I want from
toolbox. If you need something that SWX doesn't carry in it's library,
like a bolt with a drilled thread, you can open the part from the
toolbox, do a saveas and edit it without risk of changing the actual
TB parts.

We were told by our VAR that this wouldn't work but it's been working
fine for 6 months now.