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Hello all, Has anyone had any experience of running Solid Edge v18 on a Windows XP x64? We have a box which we tried to install it on but it whinges about not being able to find a valid licence whereas we've had no problems in the past on 32-bit XP. Any experiences? Thanks :)

Hello all, How can I save data in MS Office applications using VBA. Now I realise how stupid this sounds at first glance, so let me elaborate.... I want to store essentially hidden data so that users are unaware of it an therefore cannot fiddle. MS Word has the ability to use variables...

Hello all, I am getting strange behaviour with one of our users. Everytime he opens an assembly, they get a prompt asking for a floppy disk in A: drive. When you put the disk in nothing happens - there is no indication on the screen and nothing gets written to the disk. I am using SE v18...

I want to dynamically update some information in a excel spreadsheet but I cannot seem to find a suitable event to trigger my code. When I enter data into a cell and then change selection, I want to run some code that picks up the data in the cell I just typed into. Playing around, I have...

I am writing a macro for excel that will retrieve some data from an access database but am having some difficulty with the connection code. What is supposed to happen is a connection is made when the worksbook is opened and sets a global variable which is used when the selection changes. The...

After a crash, SolidEdge v18 now refuses to show the window that displays after you use the inspect menu to measure distance, angle etc... I have tried re-installing and the latest SP but nothing can get the window back. Anyone had this before? Thanks

Hi, I am trying to put a text profile in SE v18 but the characters are not showing correctly. I use the character map to choose what I want (in this case some polish characters from Arial Narrow font) and they show correctly when pasted into the text profile dialog but the profile drawn on the...

Any ideas why the explode environment is greyed out when I try to explode subassemblies? The user can explode the top level assemblies but not any subassemblies beneath the top level. I have been through and checked for dodgy relationships etc but there is nothing. Any ideas? Thanks

Hi, I am having some trouble with coordinate dimensions in v18 SP12. Up until recently I haven't had any problems but now I seem to get some strange behaviour. After you add the base (0,0) dimension, the subsequent dimensions snap to it. The problem is that they don't always snap. If for...

Hi, Does anyone know which event is triggered (if there is one) when the Properties dialog is displayed for a part/assy/drawing? Thanks M

Does anyone know how to access custom properties of a part through a drawing? I am writing some code which runs on a drawing but I also need to access some of the properties of the part/assembly that it references. Any ideas? Thanks

Hello all, Any idea why the option to Switch to Sheet Metal (under Applications menu in Part environment) is greyed out. I have some geometry and have saved the part but cannot switch between environments. Thanks in advance.