#TASK not able to run macros

Discussion created by Bryan Campbell on Sep 17, 2019
Latest reply on Dec 5, 2019 by Rebecca Bennett

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Hi everyone,

I've looked for a solution to this issue on the forums and other sites but haven't found it. I'm running Solidworks 2013 and trying to execute simple macros in #TASK. The save to PDF macro from their online library is just an example of something that should work but I get this error. (see attached).

"Generic error. This indicates that #TASK failed to run a macro. Please make sure that you can run macros in SolidWorks"

I can export PDFs in SW manually and record/run macros.

Looking forward to a solution.

Thanks!

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Rebecca Bennett Dec 4, 2019 6:19 PM
I just got this very same error. Using #Task as a workaround to SW not running our house Batch PDF macro. Uhg.
I submitted the issue with my VAR, I really don't want to save out 300 files manually.
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- Jonathan Albert @ Rebecca Bennett on Dec 4, 2019 8:17 PM
  Can you use your In-House Macro?
  
  Alternative could be PDM Convert Task (to PDF) if you have PDM Pro
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  - Rebecca Bennett @ Jonathan Albert on Dec 5, 2019 1:20 PM
    Our in-house macro isn't working for some unknown reason. We don't have PDM.
    We actually ended up using SolidWorks Task Scheduler for the job and it worked perfectly.
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Josh Brady Dec 4, 2019 8:33 PM
My guess for the OP is that some portion of the particular #TASK macro uses an API call that is newer than 2013. SW generally supports all old calls, but old installs don't support newer calls.
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Bryan Campbell Dec 5, 2019 8:15 AM
A little update,

When originally posted, I was using SW2013 SP1 and attempting to execute a macro found through the #TASK browser. My company has since upgraded to SP5 and I've created my own macro for exporting PDF's and STEP's which work. I should note that most of the macros I've added from #TASK don't run for me.

Best of luck everyone.

Happy tasking!
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