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Hi All

I'm moving to another computer. -How do i take the library of materials i have in the plug-in with me?? Or do i need to reimport all of them and sort them manually. There are changes to the materials in the plugin so would be a headache

Any help much appreciated.

Hi deboy,

If you open the plugin's Log Viewer and look at one of the first few lines, you will find a link to a text file which explains a bit about customizing the configuration of the plugin's material database. To move an entire database from one machine to another, you would:

on the original machine:

1. find the directory where the plugin's database is located. This is found under your roaming profile and the actual path may vary from machine to machine - if you look in the Log Viewer, you will find the actual location. For example, on my Vista machine here, the directory is located at C:\Users\Jeremy\AppData\Roaming\MaxwellDotNET. It may be in the Local Settings folder on XP.
2. browse to the ...\MaxwellDotNET\SDK folder, and .zip the Collections and DB folders found inside - these hold the structure you find in the Database Manager tree and the actual plugin Material files

on the new machine:

1. locate the MaxwellDotNET\SDK folder (you will actually have to run the plugin once first, since this directory is created at run-time)
2. replace the Collections and DB folders with the ones you .zipped on your other machine
3. open SolidWorks - your old database should now be here on your new machine

Let me know if you run into any problems.

Cheers,

JD

Thanks for the reply, very exhaustive! Will try it all tomorrow