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Animating Positional representations in Studio

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Message 1 of 19
nrg_drink
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Animating Positional representations in Studio

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 ?

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Message 2 of 19
nrg_drink
in reply to: nrg_drink

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

Message 3 of 19
Bill_Bogan1
in reply to: nrg_drink

We should probably start with basic information.

Inventor version? Default install path or other?

Excel version?

Machine info?

 

Thanks,

Bill



Bill Bogan
Principal Content Experience Designer
CXD
PDMS-DiD-Digital Manufacturing
Autodesk, Inc.
Message 4 of 19
nrg_drink
in reply to: nrg_drink

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

Message 5 of 19
nrg_drink
in reply to: nrg_drink

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

Message 6 of 19
Bill_Bogan1
in reply to: nrg_drink

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.



Bill Bogan
Principal Content Experience Designer
CXD
PDMS-DiD-Digital Manufacturing
Autodesk, Inc.
Message 7 of 19
Bill_Bogan1
in reply to: Bill_Bogan1

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). 



Bill Bogan
Principal Content Experience Designer
CXD
PDMS-DiD-Digital Manufacturing
Autodesk, Inc.
Message 8 of 19
nrg_drink
in reply to: Bill_Bogan1

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

Message 9 of 19
pdauphin
in reply to: nrg_drink

Hello,

 

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

 

 

Thanks.

Message 10 of 19
Bill_Bogan1
in reply to: nrg_drink

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?

 

 



Bill Bogan
Principal Content Experience Designer
CXD
PDMS-DiD-Digital Manufacturing
Autodesk, Inc.
Message 11 of 19
pdauphin
in reply to: nrg_drink

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.

Message 12 of 19
Bill_Bogan1
in reply to: pdauphin

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?



Bill Bogan
Principal Content Experience Designer
CXD
PDMS-DiD-Digital Manufacturing
Autodesk, Inc.
Message 13 of 19
pdauphin
in reply to: pdauphin

Excel 2007.

Message 14 of 19
Bill_Bogan1
in reply to: pdauphin

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.



Bill Bogan
Principal Content Experience Designer
CXD
PDMS-DiD-Digital Manufacturing
Autodesk, Inc.
Message 15 of 19
KoosKrugel
in reply to: Bill_Bogan1

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?

Message 16 of 19
Bill_Bogan1
in reply to: KoosKrugel

The issue has been reported. When I get word back on it, I will update the response here.



Bill Bogan
Principal Content Experience Designer
CXD
PDMS-DiD-Digital Manufacturing
Autodesk, Inc.
Message 17 of 19
juan.j.alfonzo
in reply to: pdauphin

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

 

Message 18 of 19

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



Bill Bogan
Principal Content Experience Designer
CXD
PDMS-DiD-Digital Manufacturing
Autodesk, Inc.
Message 19 of 19
rsnook6001
in reply to: pdauphin

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

 

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