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 ?
We should probably start with basic information.
Inventor version? Default install path or other?
Excel version?
Machine info?
Thanks,
Bill
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
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.
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).
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
Let me see if I understand this correctly...
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?
I can't speak for the user who started this thread but in my case, I don't have to do nothing in the "Studio" environnement to get the error. It pops up when I switch from the "Assembly" environnement to the "Inventor Studio" environnement. I'm not using Excel in any way in this model and I get the error. I'm not using Positionnal Reps either in my animation. I'm using positionnal reps in my assembly but not in the animation. In assembly mode, the positionnal reps work fine.
When I switch to "Studio" environnement, I get the error. Then, Inventor returns to the "Assembly" environnement. I click again to go to the "Studio" environnement and this time, no error message and I'm able to render and animate. But, again, I'm not using positionnal reps. Maybe if I did, I would get another error message.
Specs:
Inventor 2010 Pro SP2 (I removed SP3 because with this SP applied, the rendering crashes all the time)
Windows 7 - 64 bit
Nvidia Quadro FX 3700 with lattest driver approved by Autodesk for Inventor 2011.
If you need more info, please ask!
Thanks.
So, the initiator of the discussion has this setup...
Inventor Pro 2011 (64 bit)
Windows 7
Excel 2007
You have...
Inventor 2010 Pro SP2 (I removed SP3 because with this SP applied, the rendering crashes all the time)
Windows 7 - 64 bit
Nvidia Quadro FX 3700 with lattest driver approved by Autodesk for Inventor 2011
What version of Excel do you have on your machine?
So, the common threads are:
Windows 7
Excel 2007
And, how Inventor 2010/2011 reacts to these. I'll log this as an issue and see what can be determined.
Hi
I have the same problem as pdauphin.
System also pretty much the same.
I want to animate positional representations.
Also, when I want to open the excel sheet containing the PosReps, it gives the same problem.
Is there any solution yet?
The issue has been reported. When I get word back on it, I will update the response here.
Has this problem been resolved? I have exactly the same problem with inventor 2010, I am trying to animate an assembly including positional representations and it keeps saying that Excel is required to animate pos. rep., it crashed 3 times already, so I closed Inventor opened it again a nothing, keeps doing the same thing, the 4th time I tried it sent another message:
-Could not insert object
-Failed to launch excel
and then... it crashed...
Excel 2010
AI 2010
Intel Core i7 2600 cpu
16 gb ram
64 os
I am told this defect was fixed with Inventor 2011 SP2. If you are on 2011, be sure to apply SP2.
If you are using something newer, let us know as it would mean a regression has taken place.
Thanks,
Bill Bogan
MFG Learning Experience Team
It appears I am having similar issues. I tried animating with PR's, but as I couldn't get it to work, I went back, and deleted the PR's, and tried the animation with component animations. Now, every time I enter the Studio, I get the error message about not having Excel installed, and Inventor crashes just at the completion of rendering my animation.
My setup:
Windows 7 Pro 64bit
Excel 2010
Inventor 2012
Quad core 2.83GHz
8gb Ram
gtx 580