A better option is to remove the Toolbox attribute from standalone part files.With the option disabled, you will have no further troubles in the future. The alternative, Create Configuration, would mean that you would only be able to see where the configuration file is used, not the. Click Configure, then click Define User Settings.
Go to your SOLIDWORKS install folder on your machine, probably c:program filessolidworks corpsolidworkstoolboxdata utilities run the sldsetdocprop.exe file. The old method was to change this information. First browse to the following location of the computer: installation diskProgram FilesSOLIDWORKSCorpSOLIDWORKSToolboxdata utilities, find the executable. You will need to correct the references back to your custom parts. In the System Options tab, click Hole Wizard/Toolbox. The toolbox files have a line in the file header that says 'istoolboxpart'. However if you have opened any assembly with the option turned on, and then saved the assembly, this actually modifies and keeps the references to the Toolbox. This process can be repeated for anything else that may have been broken.
The toolbox is one of the exceptions whereupon the location is determined further down in system options, under Hole Wizard/Toolbox. Utilizing the correct File Locations, keeping it organized, the best practice of defining and setting up toolbox parts and populating the correct files to fully utilize Solidworks. This will stop your references from switching to the Toolbox. This would almost definitely have to be done if the toolbox location that SOLIDWORKS is looking at is incompatible (i.e. Simply disable the “Make this folder the default…” option under the Toolbox options.There are two solutions to stop SOLIDWORKS Toolbox lost references from happening: Since this option is enabled by default, some users are finding that their custom fasteners that were saved out of SOLIDWORKS Toolbox are now losing their references back to the default Toolbox files. control access to the Toolbox library to prevent users from changing the Toolbox components. With the “default search location” option enabled, the Toolbox component references are automatically forced back to your Toolbox database. Storing Toolbox data in a network location is recommended. All of the Toolbox components are included in the new folder as standalone part files (if you didn’t exclude them).
This is useful when you run a File > Pack and Go of your assembly. When this option is enabled, assembly files that are referencing Toolbox components saved outside of the Toolbox database are automatically changed to have the references point to the Toolbox for the fasteners. SOLIDWORKS Toolbox Search Location When is this option useful?