topic Re: embedded excel spreadsheets not supported on this platform ?? in Inventor Forum

embedded excel spreadsheets not supported on this platform ??

HermJan.Otterman — Sat, 05 Nov 2016 10:32:57 GMT

Hello everyone,

Yesterday I tried to open in Inventor part with an embedded excel sheet. Inventor give me this error:

So I tried creating a new part, and a new excel fille:

Then in the part, go to the parameters and embed the excel file in the part

after choosing "Open", I get the Error....

I have both 2017 R2 and 2016 installed and they both give me the same error.

I reinstalled Inventor 2017: same result.

I'm working on Windows 10 with Excel 2013

I asked two colleagues, and they had the same thing.

On the internet I could not find this error....

so is this still working for everybody else?? or has some update broken something?

Re: embedded excel spreadsheets not supported on this platform ??

Roelof.Feijen — Mon, 07 Nov 2016 07:00:24 GMT

I am having the same problem.

Re: embedded excel spreadsheets not supported on this platform ??

HermJan.Otterman — Thu, 10 Nov 2016 13:15:53 GMT

After creating a case at Autodesk support, they came with this link:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/inventor-products/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/not-able-to-create-thread-in-Inventor-2016.html

In my case the variable UseLibXL was already created and had the value of 1.

after removing this variable and a restart, the embedding worked again..!!

(turning the 1 into 0 did not work, I had to remove it.)

Thanks to Hitoshi from Autodesk.

Re: embedded excel spreadsheets not supported on this platform ??

Anonymous — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 00:00:05 GMT

@HermJan.Otterman wrote:
After creating a case at Autodesk support, they came with this link:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/inventor-products/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/not-able-to-create-thread-in-Inventor-2016.html

In my case the variable UseLibXL was already created and had the value of 1.

after removing this variable and a restart, the embedding worked again..!!
(turning the 1 into 0 did not work, I had to remove it.)

Thanks to Hitoshi from Autodesk.

Hi all,

I'm experiencing the same error message with embedded excel files in Inventor 2016

I've recently created the variable UseLibXL in my system to fix an issue I was having with the thread feature spreadsheet.

(At the time Inventor froze for a few minutes every time I had to create a thread or inserted an iPart that had a thread feature. It was fixed with the creation of this variable).

Now I'm finding that this variable is causing me problems with embedded excel files on my .ipt.?

Is there a solution that allows me to keep both features working properly?

Thanks is advance

Jon

Inventor 2016.2.2

Windows 7 64bits

Microsoft Excel 2013 (Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2013)

Re: embedded excel spreadsheets not supported on this platform ??

HermJan.Otterman — Thu, 19 Jan 2017 08:58:46 GMT

Hello Jonathan,

I thing that Autodesk has to fix this bug.

hopefully will they look into this.