We have one machine that this works just fine on as JNR says he does, there is another machine where it has been a thorn in our side. It is installed locally, but access files over a network. We have re-installed both programs many times with no changes. Solidworks has been of no help as has...
I'm not trying to copy anything, just work within files.
Excel won't run on its own once the crashing cycle starts, I have to go through Solidworks to get it to run.
I have been having a lot of trouble with both software packages.
I am running on Windows XP Professional Version 2002 Service Pack 1
SolidWorks 2003 SP3
Microsoft Excel 2002 SP-2
I don't know how to reproduce this problem, but it happens very frequently. When I start up Excel on its own it...
What we are doing to link the dimensions are using a version of a small utility off of the solidworks website called "Excel To SolidWorks Link Template" by Rick Chin. This is a little VB program that allows you to link any particular cell to any dimension in Solidworks. So, now you...
We have had this problem when regenerating large parts that are driven by Excel spreadsheets as well. Our solution was to add this line at the start of the macro:
Application.DisplayAlerts = False
FYI, our parts are driven with over 4000 linked dimensions between Solidworks and Excel.
This...