embedded excel spreadsheets not supported on this platform ??

[HermJan.Otterman]

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?

[Roelof.Feijen]

I am having the same problem.

[HermJan.Otterman · Accepted solution]

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

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/inventor-products/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcartic...

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.

[Anonymous]

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@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/sfdcartic...

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.

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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)

[HermJan.Otterman]

Hello Jonathan,

I thing that Autodesk has to fix this bug.

hopefully will they look into this.