Solved: Problems with export BOM to Excel

Anonymous · ‎03-22-2018

Hello,

my Inventor 2018 Version is release 2018.2.3 an I got Problem to Export BOM to Excel (Windows 10).

I tried two ways. Direct from Assembly and then from drawing.

Both I get error:

Sorry, this is in German. It means I need installation of Excel.

But I got Excel!!

Can you help me?

Cadmanto · ‎03-22-2018

Is it an old version of Excel that might be incompatible?

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blair · ‎03-22-2018

Something rings a bell on a Windows Registry Setting for using Excel and Inventor. For the life of me, I can't find it on the forum.

Try using a different Windows log-in account on your machine, just to check it's not a Profile issue. You can try running the Inventor Registry command.

Re-Register Inventor

open a command prompt as administrator
type :"C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor 2018\Bin\Inventor.exe" /install
Wait for about 30 seconds & then retry Inventor

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Just insert the picture rather than attaching it as a file
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MechMachineMan · ‎03-22-2018

Also, if you are using excel office 365, there are often issues with that.

The documentation (I think) says it's incompatible, but if you ensure you have a LOCAL install of the excel 365, it should work.

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Anonymous · ‎03-23-2018

Hi,

Excel is Office 2016.

kelly.young · ‎03-23-2018

Hello @Anonymous I see that you are visiting as a new member to the Inventor Forum.
Welcome to the Autodesk Community!

Just a shot that hasn't been mentioned have you updated your windows and graphics drivers?

Inventor 2016 and Excel 2016

Inventor will not load Excel anymore

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Anonymous · ‎04-05-2018

Hi guys,

we found great solution.

Another user got same Problem:

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

My Installation is same: office 32bit, Inventor 64bit.

So Inventor is looking for ecxel.exe and couldn't find it.

We put link (shortcut?) of excel.exe into Register of start menu.

But you need full rights as user in this register.

Then inventor will find excel.

I hope you'll understand my german english..

Greetings from Germany from Doreen

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