BOM Crashing my Drawings

[apsando]

I am working on making some exploded assembly drawings but when I add a BOM I cannot reopen the drawing.

I will go through and make the drawing with no problems. I can save it in SW and other formats with no problems. But, when I close the drawing I can no longer open the SW drawing. I can still open them if I save them as a PDF or such. I can even open the SW drawings in eDrawings.

I see the file in the folder but if I try to open it form there or go File > Open in SW nothing happens. If I try to make a drawing from the assembly I am told that one already exist but when I try to open it that way I get a message that I don't have write access but nothing happens when I try to open it as read-only.

I have narrowed the cause of this problem down to when I add a BOM to the drawing. Anyone have any ideas how I can fix this?

-Anthony

 

[MadMango]

What version of SolidWorks are you using?

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[apsando]

Solidworks Premium 2011
Service Pack 3.0

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

Try opening the drawing in Quick View mode, and then right-click on the sheet or sheet tab and select Load Sheet

 

[gwubs]

Which BOM are you adding. If Excel, there could be something with Office?

 

[berkshire]

check your microsoft settings.
I had a similar problem with Alibre and found I had inadverently checked a box making the files protected.
B.E.

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