If you want to store your profiles in a separate location, you can create a separate folder structure, and then specify it as a weldment profile file location.
To store custom profiles in a separate location:
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In
File
Explorer, create a custom folder structure for your weldment profiles. Create a
home folder, one or more standard folders, and one or more type folders, as described in Weldments - File Location for Custom Profiles.
You can create the home folder anywhere you want. For example, you can create it
in install_dir\data (where the default weldment profiles folder is
located,)
or in other locations on your
disk
drive,
on different disk drives on your system, or on different computers on a
network.
For a weldment profile with
a
single
configuration, create
a
home folder, standard folders, and type
folders. For a weldment profile with multiple configurations, save it
to the
standard folder. For subfolder structure
creation, see Weldments
-
File
Locations for Custom Profiles.
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In SOLIDWORKS, click . Select Weldment Profiles in Show folders for.
The current directory path for weldment profiles appears under Folders.
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Click Add and browse to
the home folder you
created.
- Click OK.
The directory path to home is added to the Folders list.
- Do one of the following with the previous directory path, which is still listed in Folders:
- Leave the previous directory path as is, and click OK.
Files from both the previous directory path and the new directory path appear as selections in the PropertyManager.
- Click the previous directory path, click Delete, then click OK.
The previous directory path is
deleted from
Folders,
and files from the previous directory path do not appear as selections
in the PropertyManager.
The next time you create a weldment structural member, your custom profiles appear as selections in the Structural Member PropertyManager.