# Use your design library

> Keep house rules, tolerances and material notes in a library the Agent searches before it works.

Status: Available · Level: Everyday · About 6 minutes · Canonical: https://paracrux.com/docs/search-your-design-library

## You need

- The app activated
- Agent connection set to CueCrux Credits or OpenAI Subs (shown beside Send)
- A design open in the Solidworks Agent workspace

## You'll come away with

- Add Starter entries and your own notes to a design
- Know exactly what the Agent's search will and won't find
- Trace which designs used an entry's source file

## Step by step

1. **Open Design context.** On your design, open the Design context tab. This design shows what the Agent can search; Library shows the Starter entries and anything shared across designs.
2. **Add Starter entries.** The Library comes with Starter entries such as ISO 2768 medium tolerances, ISO 273 clearance holes and tap drill sizes. Choose Add to design on the ones you use. The Agent searches this design's entries and anything shared across designs, but not Starter entries until you add them
3. **Write your own.** Choose + (Write a new entry). Pick This design only, or The library, shared across designs. Give it a title and the engineering context, and optionally a source reference.
4. **Ask the Agent to use it.** Ask a question that the library answers. The Agent searches titles and text for your words and cites the entry it used.
   Try saying: "What clearance hole should I use for an M8 bolt?"
5. **See where a source was used.** If an entry has a source file, the Agent can attach it to the design. To trace it later, right-click the file in References and choose View where used.

## Try it

The Starter entries are the app's own, and the search follows the app's rule exactly: this design's entries and anything shared, never Starter entries until added. Add or write entries, then search. The requests in quotes show how the Agent might phrase a search. The interactive simulator is on the web page.

- "What clearance hole should I use for an M8 bolt?"
- "What general tolerance applies?"
- "Which tap drill for M6?"
- "What do we know about 6082-T6?"

## What it won't do

- Search matches your words literally, ignoring case. It does not understand synonyms: 'clearance' finds clearance holes, 'bolt hole' may not.
- The Agent sees at most the 20 newest matches.
- Starter entries must be added to a design before the Agent's search can find them.
- Entries are reference data, not instructions. Text in an entry cannot make the Agent do anything.
- Shared means shared across designs in this workspace on this computer, not online.
- Starter values are general guidance. Confirm them against your own standards and the governing edition.

## Covers

- Design library search (Available): Search the references and notes you have saved, privately per design or shared across your workspace. Where: Solidworks Agent workspace, in a design conversation

## Next

- [Find a standard structural section](https://paracrux.com/docs/find-a-standard-section.md): Ask for a tube, angle or beam in your own words and get real catalogue sizes back, with their standard.
- [Create a simple part from a brief](https://paracrux.com/docs/create-a-simple-part.md): Describe a block with all three sizes and get a checked native part and STEP file. Leave a size out and it asks.