11 Replies Latest reply on Oct 12, 2012 11:10 AM by Brian Place

compatible

Brian Place Oct 10, 2012 11:42 AM

Does any one know when solidworks, windows 8, and office2013 will be compatible with each other?

they just built me a new computer and that's what they installed on it.

I know right now trying to auto create a design table tells me Microsoft can not validate the license,

but as soon as go to the task manager and shut down solidworks ( as it locks up the program) excel opens up

thanks

computer specs

intel core i7-3930k cpu@3.20 ghz 3.80 ghz

memory 32 gb

Re: compatible

Glenn Schroeder Oct 10, 2012 11:46 AM (in response to Brian Place)

SW 2013 sp 0 is available for download as of yesterday evening. I saw at the download site that it's compatible with Vista, Win7, and Win8.
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Re: compatible

Kelvin Lamport Oct 10, 2012 12:37 PM (in response to Brian Place)

As far as I know, the various versions of Office 2013 will start being released between early November & should be all released early 2013. I assume they have given you a "pre-release" (i.e. not ready for production use) version.

I would have them uninstall 2013 and install 2010.
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Re: compatible

Brian Place Oct 10, 2012 1:29 PM (in response to Brian Place)

installed solidworks 2013 and now the option to add a design table is grayed out lol
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  Kelvin Lamport Oct 10, 2012 1:58 PM (in response to Brian Place)
  
  That's because SW 2013 doesn't recognize Excel 2013. You will probably need to install Excel 2010.
  
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Brian Place Oct 10, 2012 2:03 PM (in response to Brian Place)

wonder when that will happen??
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  Kelvin Lamport Oct 10, 2012 2:06 PM (in response to Brian Place)
  
  I would guess with a service pack somewhen in 2013, or in SW14
  
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Brian Place Oct 10, 2012 2:19 PM (in response to Brian Place)

but what's weird'
2012 would load the auto create table before it locked up and said Microsoft could not find the license.
2013 design table is grayed out and can not even try to start it
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  Kelvin Lamport Oct 10, 2012 2:32 PM (in response to Brian Place)
  
  I interpret that as SW13 being more intelligent than SW12 because it doesn't waste time preparing to open a file until it finds the software to open the file with ... or that it has already scanned the system & knows the required software is not installed.
  
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Re: compatible

Brian Place Oct 12, 2012 10:10 AM (in response to Brian Place)

update
2013 and excel 2013 are playing together now
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  Kelvin Lamport Oct 12, 2012 10:36 AM (in response to Brian Place)
  
  What changed?
  
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Re: compatible

Brian Place Oct 12, 2012 11:10 AM (in response to Brian Place)

lol resarted??
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