Problem

When launching SOLIDWORKS, using the Hole Wizard/Toolbox function, or trying to access the Hole Wizard/Toolbox section of the System Options, you may see one of the following errors after a new installation/update:

This can be caused while installing SOLIDWORKS in the installation Summary page, you are given the option to change your Toolbox/Hole Wizard folder in the summary tab:

By default, SOLIDWORKS creates a new toolbox during the installation. There are times when the replace option is selected, or SOLIDWORKS never creates a new toolbox folder and selects the next version available as the default, and references it within SOLIDWORKS.

If another version of SOLIDWORKS has been installed, you will be asked to select an installation method for the new toolbox folder that SOLIDWORKS will use for the version you are installing. Clicking Change will bring you to the following screen:

Solution Option 1: Create a New SOLIDWORKS 20XX Toolbox

This creates a new SOLIDWORKS Data folder in the (C:) drive (local drive) that is unique to that version of SOLIDWORKS. If you have multiple versions installed, the SOLIDWORKS data folder will add a number depending on how many SOLIDWORKS Data folders are already present. 

SOLIDWORKS will create a new folder for the toolbox during the installation and name it SOLIDWORKS Data (#), where "#" represents the number of times SOLIDWORKS has been installed on this computer and other SOLIDWORKS Data folders exist already, each for another version of SOLIDWORKS. 

To avoid confusion in the future, we recommend replacing the "(#)" with the year version of SOLIDWORKS that you're installing (i.e., SOLIDWORKS Data 2026).

Solution Option 2: Use an Existing SOLIDWORKS Toolbox

If you have previously installed a version of SOLIDWORKS and are just re-installing, or you have a custom toolbox stored on a network drive, you can browse to that location, select it, and that folder will be the default toolbox for your installation of SOLIDWORKS.

Selecting this option will also allow you to upgrade a previous year's toolbox. 

For example, if you had custom cut-outs made for SOLIDWORKS 2025, you can toggle on the option to "Upgrade a copy of your 2025 Toolbox data," select Browse..., to the 2025 toolbox folder with the custom cut-outs, and SOLIDWORKS will create a copy of the folder to use in SOLIDWORKS 2026 and include the custom cut-outs.

Solution Option 3: Download a SOLIDWORKS Toolbox Data Folder

Here are some links to download a Default SOLIDWORKS Toolbox Data folder. Download the correct SOLIDWORKS Data folder for your version of SOLIDWORKS that you are missing below:

2022 - Link

2023 - Link

2024 - Link

2025 - Link

2026 - Link

Once a file set has been downloaded, follow the steps below to extract the files and configure SOLIDWORKS to use this Toolbox Data folder:

1. Once downloaded, right-click on the zip file > Properties > select Unblock > Apply > OK, and extract the folder to the Local (C:) Drive.

   

2. Open SOLIDWORKS
3. Navigate to Tools > System Options > Hole Wizard/Toolbox 

4. Click on the "..." button and select the corresponding SOLIDWORKS Data folder. If the warning appears again after choosing a folder, then you have selected the wrong folder.

   

    

5. Click OK to close the system options and try to use the Hole-Wizard tool to verify that the setting was saved.

For further technical support, please contact Hawk Ridge Systems at 877.266.4469 for the U.S. or 866.587.6803 for Canada and support@hawkridgesys.com.