4 Replies Latest reply on May 24, 2016 9:35 AM by Shailesh Kandage

PDM Office Add-in

Rodney Michels May 4, 2016 11:48 AM

All,

Today, we are using 2015 SP5 for SolidWorks and PDM. I was just wondering if any one has the PDM Office Add-in enabled? If so, have you experienced any instabilities with Office? I have had plenty of reports from my users telling me, after EPDM had been installed, darn near anything could make their office document crash. If I turn the Add-in off, everything is fine. One thing to note, generally these files live on the network, and they are larger documents that have some intelligence in them.

I don’t do a lot of work in Office, but I am about to see what I can find out. Thought I would see if I could pick any of your brains.

BTW…Office 2013 or 2016 experience the same thing.

Re: PDM Office Add-in

Craig Schultz May 4, 2016 12:56 PM (in response to Rodney Michels)

I know that we have issues with MS Office 2016, no problems with the add-in for 2010. The work around is not having the add in active. People have to check in, check out, etc from windows explorer. There apparently isn't a solution, hopefully they fix it soon.
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  Ben Roland May 5, 2016 11:00 AM (in response to Craig Schultz)
  
  We have had the same issue with PDM add-in crashing Office 16, even with EPDM 2016 SP2 I have removed it on all our machines.
  
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    Lawson Jones May 10, 2016 3:58 AM (in response to Ben Roland)
    
    Yes we have noticed instability here also...
    
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      Shailesh Kandage May 24, 2016 9:35 AM (in response to Lawson Jones)
      
      Hi
      
      Microsoft Office 2016 is supported with SolidWorks 2016 SP03 and later.
      Please see the https://www.solidworks.com/sw/support/SystemRequirements.html
      
      -Shailesh
      
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