Design tables are not working properly in 2017.
If I "open design table in a new window", it will crash. A work-around is to first open it within solidworks (not a separate excel window), *then* open it within excel the second time.
Many times (like 2 minutes ago), I forgot to do the workaround, and lost work.
Solidworks, PLEASE fix this.
Solidworks 2017, Service pack 4.0
Windows 10
Machine: Dell 7710 (64GB Ram)
Excel: Office 365 (always up to date).
I'm hoping to get some attention for this. Crashing many times throughout the day is quite frustrating.
I appreciate the idea of asking my VAR. That typically does not get a fix for me for Solidworks bugs that are out of their control.
Similarly, Task scheduler stopped working properly a year or so ago (on a previous Dell M6700 as well as on this 7710). My VAR has no fix. Different computers. Not the machine’s issue.
Not sure what's left to do other than post here about these things. I pay for premium to be able to use the task scheduler, which often times doesn't work (these days, it works to batch print PDF's, but if I hit any buttons out of order, it crashes).
Solidworks: we want features we pay for to work. We don't want new features. (I've been using solidworks since version 1996, and seeing features that always worked, start to crash 20 years later is quite frustrating).
I suspect what's happening is Solidworks is working on new features all the time. Meanwhile, Windows is in a constant state of change, and very difficult to keep up with bugs.
James Cuevas wrote:
Solidworks 2017, Service pack 4.0
Windows 10Machine: Dell 7710 (64GB Ram)
Excel: Office 365 (always up to date).
I assume this is the installed version of Office 365? The online, browser based version is not supported.
I appreciate the idea of asking my VAR. That typically does not get a fix for me for Solidworks bugs that are out of their control.
It is the VARs job to help troubleshoot problems (and work with our Technical Support at corporate if necessary) to get to a point where they either fix whatever problem is happening on your machine if it is something specific with your setups/environments causing the problem or if it is a problem in the software, get it to our development staff to fix.
Is it actually crashing with a crash dialog or is it locking up SOLIDWORKS (since I see a report of it locking up SOLIDWORKS after Excel is closed for 365, but I am not sure if that is reproducible since I don't have 365 to try it). That's the other reason to work through your VAR and through out technical support team. They have all sorts of different hardware/OS/software setups to try different variations that users might have. Plus, they have access to the full database of problems being reported in to technical support that may never make it to development; cases where it was something that needed to be changed/updated on the machine to fix it.
Similarly, Task scheduler stopped working properly a year or so ago (on a previous Dell M6700 as well as on this 7710). My VAR has no fix. Different computers. Not the machine’s issue.
It could be something about your environment if it is happening on multiple machines. I have not heard of any general problems with Task scheduler not working either. Again, the VAR should be helping to troubleshoot this and get our technical support team involved if need be.
Not sure what's left to do other than post here about these things.
This is only going to help if someone else has run into the same problem, has figured out how to fix it, or has an SPR from our development team. Since no one else has yet responded, this again does not sound like a general problem so I highly recommend you ask your reseller to do more to help troubleshoot the issue (i.e. get our technical support involved if need be).
Thanks,
Jim
Jim, I will address this with my VAR. Soon, hopefully. The reality is, past experience has shown that that time is spent helping the VAR then send info to solidworks for a hopeful future fix.
Regarding the systems I'm having this issue on...
They're both standalone computers..
Dell M6700 - my former main computer, now sits as a backup
Dell 7710
They are both running office 365 - the desktop version, which gets updated by microsoft quite often
I suspect that's where the problem may be coming from - Solidworks being affected by the constantly-changing microsoft programs...?
As you can see from this thread, others are having the same problem.
I have the same problem on my laptop, only started happening since I did the last win10 update. My desktop pc is still okay.
I can create a new design table, but I can not edit it in either solidworks or a separate window.
I have done a repair on SW and a full repair on office.
Laptop : ASUS X555UJ I7-6500 2.5GHz, 12Gb ram WIN10pro 64bit
SW2017 sp3.0
Excel 365 upto date
It looks like my issue is from the windows 10 fall creator update (build 1709).
My desktop PC did the same update and I had the same problem with excel crashing on "edit design table in new window". I rolled back the update to build 1703 and it is working fine. All tests were done on a simple part of a block creating and modifying a design table.
Now to re-install win10 build 1703 on the laptop which has gone passed the 10 day roll back period.
Sorry to say, but I'm having the exact same problems on 1703.
I came on here hoping 1709 fixed it.
Could it be an Excel 2016 thing? With Office 365 it's constantly updating...
Thanks for that Matt,
I have been back and forward with my SW supplier and just sent them a Rx recording of the issue. Hopefully I get a fix.
I am also going to contact Microsoft about this.
Hi James,
This works fine for me with SOLIDWORKS 2017 SP3 and SP4.1 on Windows 10 with Excel 2016 and it is not a general problem that I have heard of so it could be something on your machine. I would suggest that you contact your reseller with the details of the SOLIDWORKS, Windows, and Excel versions that you are using and they should be able to help troubleshoot it.
Thanks,
Jim