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[#1]

I'm using 2011 pro.  When I try to animate a positional rep in inventor studio, it complains that I don't have excel installed. (see attached image) although I do have it installed.  I've put the hotfix on for excel, with no effect.  I've repaired inventor and repaired excel no fix though.

Does anyone have any ideas ?

[#2]

I thought I would try and bump this up, I really need an answer, I hope someone can help

[#3]

We should probably start with basic information.

Inventor version? Default install path or other?

Excel version?

Machine info?

Thanks,

Bill

[#4]

Sorry,

I'm using Inventor Pro 2011 (64 bit)

Windows 7

Excel 2007

Dell M6500 12gb Ram

There are other people in the office using exactly the same spec, and they have the same problems

[#5]

and everything is installed to the default paths, both excel and inventor

[#6]

Great. thanks! We'll see what we can discern at this point. I or another person will be back with more information as soon as I/we have it.

[#7]

Try this post: http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Autodesk-Inventor/linking-an-excel-file-using-inventor-2010-and-window...

Saving you time...

Re: linking an excel file using inventor 2010 and windows 7

05-06-2010 12:40 PM in reply to: pmoske

Is this a 64-bit system? These solutions are only for 64-bit Windows 7. 
Did you try running the script again to remove the entries, then again 
to add them? (Soren Skjoldborg tried that back in November and it helped.)

Microsoft acknowledged the problem is with the interaction between 
Windows 7, its default entries for things like searching, and Office. 
You can see that even things like WordPad exhibit the same bad behavior 
by trying to link a spreadsheet to a document in WordPad (it embeds it 
instead of linking to it). I don't know what the status is for a fix 
from them.

One other approach you might want to try is to rename the key yourself 
(I recommend renaming so you can restore it if things don't work). Use 
Registry Editor and find 
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Classes\CLSID\{00020820-0000-0000-C000-000000000046}. 
Rename that key to something else, perhaps by prepending "zzz" 
("zzz{00020820-..."). By doing that, it forces Windows to use the 32-bit 
entries, and that should work.

You can confirm this by trying to link a spreadsheet into a WordPad 
document---when things are broken, it will only embed (you'll see a 
spreadsheet icon), but when things are working, it will be linked 
(you'll see the spreadsheet entries). 

[#8]

It's not that, I can quite happily link excel tables into IParts etc (although the hotfix was required) It's just animating the postional representations that cause a problem

[#9]

Hello,

Any solution came up for this problem? I have the same problem here...

Thanks.

[#10]

Let me see if I understand this correctly...

1. You bring values from excel into Inventor. Do you assign them to/as parameters?
2. You then use the parameters/values to modify PRs. The PRs work in the assembly environment - no problem?
3. In Inventor Studio, you use the Animate Positional Representations (PR) command to animate between specfied PRs

Does that accurately describe the process - albeit more steps may actually be required?

And, if that is the process, are you having problems with phase 3?