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Project Octopus seamlessly access Robot data and results with Excel

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Romanich
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Project Octopus seamlessly access Robot data and results with Excel

The newest addin from Autodesk Labs  - Project Octopus that allows designers and engineers using Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis to seamlessly access data and results with Microsoft Office Excel. To know more about it please use this link.

For the first look this is the Excel_Formulas.xlsm from the 2014 SDK. 

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Message 2 of 45
faisal.aaouatif
in reply to: Romanich

Wait and see
Message 3 of 45
mgaafar
in reply to: Romanich

For some reason all the Robot files under the Example folder does not work, it is empty!!. when you click on the file you can see the structure in the preview but there is nothing in the file when it is opened even in the repair mode.

C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\Examples\Project Octopus\RSA

 

Message 4 of 45
Rafal.Gaweda
in reply to: mgaafar

Missing file attached.



Rafal Gaweda
Message 5 of 45

Hi Rafal,

 

as you can see in the following picture, when I run Excel_Formulas of project Octopus, I have the message "RSA is not open" but, as you can see, RSA 2014 is opened.

 

Whats wrong? Any registry option? I've installed on my workstation contemporary RSA 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015 beta.

 

RSA.jpg

 

Thanks in advance for your reply and merry christmas.


PasProStudio

www.pasquiniprogetti.eu

Structural + Detailing engineers
Message 6 of 45

Please unregistser all robots than register only 2014 as Admin

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Robot-Structural-Analysis/VBA-Excel-macro-for-any-object-geometry-modi...


Rafal Gaweda
Message 7 of 45
AndyWalker
in reply to: Romanich

cool tool but whats the difference between this and Robot Spreadsheet calculator?

 

andy

Message 8 of 45
Leader_Mohamed
in reply to: AndyWalker

This plugin doesn't support Excel 2013 Smiley Frustrated

Message 9 of 45
Message 10 of 45
Rafal.Gaweda
in reply to: Rafal.Gaweda

Run
"c:\Program Files\Autodesk\Project Octopus\Framework\ASC.vsto"
and if any error message displayed please make screen shot and show me.


Rafal Gaweda
Message 11 of 45

worked fine , thx.
Message 12 of 45

Hi guys....

 

No Wel ?

 

Seems only to give formula for Wpl.....

 

will the Octopus get some more tenticles and allow access to elastic section modulus?  🙂

 

Tony

Message 13 of 45

Hello,

 

Does it work the other way round? I mean if you modify lets say the position of a node in excel, will it change in ROBOT?Do the two programms interact?

 

Thank you.

Message 14 of 45

The programs interact, but it's more like Excel can extract data and information.

If you see the formula in Excel it looks like this;

Capture.JPG 

 

The X co-ordinate of node 1 is -9m.  If you just typed 9 into the cell it would over write the formula. 

You'd need to use VBA if you needed to update Robot out of Excel.

 

Tony

Message 15 of 45

Hello,

 

Is there a version for 32bit window platform?

 

Thank you.

Message 16 of 45

System Requirements

Autodesk Robot Structural Analysis Professional 2014

Windows 8 (64-bit)
Windows 7 (64-bit)

Microsoft Office Excel 2013 (32-bit and 64-bit)
Microsoft Office Excel 2010 (32-bit and 64-bit)

https://beta.autodesk.com/project/home.html?cap=88F6AD3A8AB1489F81E537C21424A4A5


Rafal Gaweda
Message 17 of 45

At this time the team is reaching out to 64-bit users only. There are enough people using 64-bit so that the team can get the feedback about the technology preview that the team needs.



Scott Sheppard
Program Manager
Autodesk Labs
Autodesk, Inc.
Message 18 of 45

32 bit?

 

They'll be expecting support for MS DOS soon........

 

Time to upgrade 🙂

 

 

Message 19 of 45
Dhabi123
in reply to: Rafal.Gaweda

I get the attached error image attached  while opening the file c:\Program Files\Autodesk\Project Octopus\Framework\ASC.vsto..Please comment

Message 20 of 45
Rafal.Gaweda
in reply to: Dhabi123

What is your system? 32 or 64 bit?
What is your Excel? 32 or 64 bit?
Do you have installed dotnet 4.5? if not please install it http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=30653


Rafal Gaweda

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