- [Instructor] SolidWorks toolbox
is a pre-loaded library
inside of SolidWorks that has literally thousands
of different styles and types of hardware.
To use the toolbox, we need to create an assembly.
So I have a part here.
I'm going to go ahead up to file and say,
make assembly from part,
go ahead and add in that first part.
And now let's go ahead and use the toolbox.
Now the toolbox is located under the library
over here on the right hand side of the screen.
So you can see here is the basic toolbox library.
If you haven't used it before
you might get a little icon
that pops up here that says, add in toolbox.
As soon as you add that in,
it will show you exactly what you see here.
So these are all the different styles
of fasteners that we can use.
And inside like antsy inch, you can see here
we've got all these different folders
with the different things that we can bring in.
I'm looking for a bolt or screw.
So I'm going to go ahead and look inside there.
And I can also look on this little dropdown
and I'm looking for socket head cap screws.
So here they are.
And I'm going to look for the regular socket head cap screws.
Go ahead and drag that into my design.
Now, as soon as I do,
I have the option of choosing the size right over here.
I'm looking for a three ACE 16 socketed cap screw.
So go up here, find that one.
And then over here on the left
I can define the length, the size, the style,
all this information can be configured right over here.
And when you have it all looking good
click on the green check mark
and notice this screw is now attached to my cursor.
So anywhere I place this screw
if I click on that inside edge there
it'll automatically mate that screw to that hole.
So click on the inside edge, again right over here.
So it's a really quick way
to just snap these fasteners into place, right?
Or they need to be
because of these automatic mates
that are happening right here.
So go ahead and just click on a few more of those.
And there it is.
Okay. Now hit escape when you're done.
And then notice this fastener over here.
He's in artifacts.
Let's get rid of him cause we don't need that one in there.
Hit delete on the keyboard and he's gone.
Okay. Now I've got those screws.
If you want to go back and modify the screw though,
notice over here, the icon is a little bit different
from your standard part icons.
It's telling us that this is a toolbox part.
It's broadened from toolbox.
And this toolbox library happens to be on my local machine.
Now, if you go to somebody else's computer
or you send this file to somebody else
these toolbox parts might not be on their system.
So make sure you do a pack and go or something like that
and include the toolbox parts.
So when they open the assembly, these parts do show up.
Okay. If you do want to modify any one of these fasteners
right click over here, and you can say,
edit toolbox components, click on that.
And that will allow us to change the size or the length.
So in this case, let's go ahead
and choose like a two inch one.
Click Okay.
And then all these parts, actually not all of them,
just this part here will change to a different size.
You could select all of them if you wanted to.
But in this case, I only modified that one,
but check this out.
If you click on a different one,
right up here at the top, we actually have a dropdown
which has all the different sizes that we're currently using
in our design.
And right over here,
you can see we've got the longer version,
which is right there, click on that.
And now that one is also that longer version.
So you can easily switch from one size
to the other size or right click and say, edit component.
And then you can choose a new size
to bring in from the library.
Anyways, that is how you use the SolidWorks toolbox.
It's extremely powerful
and helpful to add all these components in.
Just make sure that you do bring those with you.
If you're going to move the assembly
to some other computer or send it to somebody else
by using the pack and go wizard,
and also make sure that you include
this information about which fasteners
you're actually choosing when you make a drawing.
So people will know actually where to purchase
or get those components to build your assembly.