4 Replies Latest reply on Sep 16, 2010 2:26 PM by Samu Niveri

Design Tables w/Excel

Harold Ward Sep 13, 2010 4:23 AM

I have a 2010-2011 student version of SolidWorks on my personal computer. Additionally I have Excel 2000. I am currently enrolled in a class that is using the SolidWorks 2010 Bible as the textbook for the class that has tutorials on a CD. I am in the chapter that dicusses configurations and creating configurations with an Excel design table. When I attempt to open the design tables in the tutorials, SolidWorks says that the table can not be opened in Excel 2000. Does SolidWorks not work with this version of Excel?

Re: Design Tables w/Excel

Deepak Gupta Sep 13, 2010 5:20 AM (in response to Harold Ward)

SW does work with this version of Excel but chances are there that the table you trying to open are in higher version. Try installing the Microsoft Office Compatibility mode and then test if you can open the files outside SolidWorks or not.
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  Harold Ward Sep 13, 2010 3:23 PM (in response to Deepak Gupta)
  
  I have the Microsoft Compatibility installed and it still does not work with the files. I have a responce from Matt Lombard, the author of the SW 2010 Bible stating that he used 2003 to creat the files. He had no solution and indicated that Excel 2000 maybe too old. Any other suggestions?
  
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    John Burrill Sep 13, 2010 3:42 PM (in response to Harold Ward)
    
    I've heard that some people have had pretty good results with OpenOffice
    openoffice.org
    
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      Samu Niveri Sep 16, 2010 2:26 PM (in response to John Burrill)
      
      Do you have more information about this? Was SPN-ConfigrationDesigner used in these cases or some other 3rdparty OO.org DT-linker?
      
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