Yeah, this is just mediocre COM/OLE implementation on the part of FEMAP developers. However, I am trying another possible work around by calling FEMAP in a separate thread. I don't know how well this will work. I am getting mixed signals from posts that VBA is multithread capable and...
Todd,
First of all thank you so much for your suggestions. This bug is really unusual. I just implemented the code you posted but unfortunately it still hangs. However, I believe I found the root of the problem. Everything works with Excel (native app) after it creates the FEMAP process. I...
I have set error trapping options within VBA to break on unhandled errors and I have tried the DoEvents command as you suggested. Both seemed to be unable to resolve the problem. I am not quite sure how to implement the WAITINDEFINITE flag.
Basically, the error (which is more like a warning)...
I developed a little tool in Excel to do some load combining in FEMAP via its OLE/COM functionality. The tool operates fine, but there is one problem that I seem unable to catch. In the VBA code I create an object (FEMAP application) and thereafter I call a function femap.feFileWriteNastran...
I've contacted MSC Software about an OLE/COM function for N4W (FEMAP 8.3) called feLoadCombine which is an added function to the 2004 release of N4W according to the release notes. However, I can't find any documentation on this particular function or any of the others mentioned on the release...
