Any suggestions ?
Failed to launch server application
Any suggestions ?
I am having the same issue here.
XP Pro, SW 2007 SP3, Office 2003. Design tables worked well, but do not work anymore.
I suspect Adobe Creative Suite 3, that installed Adobe Connect, PDF creation and possible other plug-ins to Excel.
Does anybody habe met that issue?
We also have the same problem, from the beginning (SW2008 for us). Now we have SW 2009 SP3 and PDMWE SP3. Still the same problem, we used to have Office 2003, but now we have 2007. No difference.
It happends the most when we have an assembly opened, and a part in it has a design table. You can't open the table, it says "Failed to launch server application" Or "unable to open design table using excel 2007". We then have to close all open files, reopen the part without opening the assambly it's in and then we can edit the table.
Other similar problem: A collegue had changed a lot in one assembly, was finished, pushed save and got "unable to save file". Only option is to close it and do it again. Or maybe try to save it on another filename and later save it as the original, but I'm not sure that would work.
Report this to your VAR and make a lot of noise... belive me we try everithing possible and we work a lot with design tables, after many hours trying to detect the root of the problem we are convinced this is some new BUG inside SolidWorks.
On every version the fix few things and some other that work before stop working... maybe is job security for the guys doing the programs... :-) but we are suffering the problems.