I've been thrown into the fire that is PDM administration, and Toolbox seems to have a whole other set of rules that will need to be applied and inadvertently broken. Transitioning all of our hardware to Toolbox may not be as difficult as I think it will be, but I am worried about getting everything right on the first try. I can see the benefits of implementing Toolbox in general, but the catch is we will not be using ANY of the standard Toolbox components. We are finally rolling out SW PDM over the next few weeks, so I thought it would be prudent to take this opportunity to review all alternatives. We also added some separators for Material/Specialty fasteners and thus our toolbox is pretty robust and covers every type of screw or fastener we've ever used.I'm in the process of researching whether or not to implement SW Toolbox. I recommend the first method, so you aren't spending time looking up part numbers for dozens to hundreds to thousands of different screw configurations you're never going to actually use, just so you can enter them in some table. Now you can either add the McMaster-Carr numbers to the field as you go when use those sizes in models, or have someone go through the tables in the Toolbox manager and add the part numbers for every size by hand. Just select that size and it'll auto-populate. Once you enter it once for a given size screw, Toolbox remembers it and you don't have to enter it again. Now you will have a custom property field in your toolbox component property managers (the input window that appears when you drag in a new toolbox component) where you can type in the McMaster-Carr part number, and it will show up as the Part Number in BOM's. In Tab 3 of the Toolbox manager, User Settings, Under Display Options, Select your new custom property in the "Show as part Number in Bill of Materials" list.ĭone.
Check the boxes for "Add as configuration-specific property" and 'Show in Property Manager". In the Toolbox preferences, add a custom property for "McMaster-Carr Part Number".
Everyone always says "just download them from mcmaster-carr and defeature them" but that is way more time consuming than just using Toolbox's built in features for custom properties.
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