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Cannot open Solidworks 2011 Files
Dec 21 2010 11:20 PM |
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in General Mastercam
Okay, here is an update for guys running 64 bit operating systems that cannot open Solidworks 2011 files.
In-house Solutions could not figure why our 64 bit computers would not open the files, however, our 32 bit computers could.
I followed all the instructions that were posted by both Pete ( CNC Software ) and also by John Paris about using the control panel to unregister and re-register the Solidworks manager. This approach did not work.
I worked closely with our IT guy and found that the only way we could get Mastercam to recognize Solidworks files was to type some commands as follows:
Open command prompt by clicking Start -> Run and type:
cmd[enter]
then change directory by typing:
cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\mcamx5\common\SWORKSDATA"
Then run this command:
regsvr32 SWDocumentMgr.DLL
Now Mastercam X5 is working properly. I hope this helps others with the same issue.
Carmen
In-house Solutions could not figure why our 64 bit computers would not open the files, however, our 32 bit computers could.
I followed all the instructions that were posted by both Pete ( CNC Software ) and also by John Paris about using the control panel to unregister and re-register the Solidworks manager. This approach did not work.
I worked closely with our IT guy and found that the only way we could get Mastercam to recognize Solidworks files was to type some commands as follows:
Open command prompt by clicking Start -> Run and type:
cmd[enter]
then change directory by typing:
cd "C:\Program Files (x86)\mcamx5\common\SWORKSDATA"
Then run this command:
regsvr32 SWDocumentMgr.DLL
Now Mastercam X5 is working properly. I hope this helps others with the same issue.
Carmen
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1 Comments
Pete Rimkus from CNC Software Inc.
Feb 01 2011 07:44 AM
The version of SWDocumentMgr.DLL that we install into the Common\SWorksData subfolder is a 32-bit DLL.
If you have SolidWorks x64 installed on the same computer, it will install & register its own 64-bit version of SWDocumentMgr.DLL, which will not play nice with Mastercam (which is a 32-bit exe).
Also, there's can be a conflict when attempting to manually register a DLL because there are 2 versions of RegSvr32 on a 64-bit computer, one for 32-bit DLLs and one for 64-bit DLLs.