[jjs]

Just thought I would mention a very temporary work around for those desperate to render using 1.5.

Some of us are getting a RUN Time crash when trying to load assemblies. Well they say the obviuos is not obvious untill it is written down

So save you assembly as a PART ( Save AS Part - then select all parts) and then I have found it loads into SW with Maxwell plugin working - assign materials and quickly save out an mxs and then use studio where each body part is now an object.

Not brilliant and I'm sure most have thought of this - but I didn't till this morning

I have now done it on some quite complex assemblies converted to parts and it works.

Jonathan

[b-kandor]

Hi JJs,

When you say 'load' assemblies do you mean just opening them in solidworks or do you mean exporting them via the plugin to studio?

[jjs]

I mean opening a SW assembly file in SW , once the Maxwell plugin has already been "added-in".

If the Maxwell plugin is not present then Assemblies open fine in SW.

I can open a Part file with the Maxwell plugin "added-in" in SW, but not Assemblies. Hence the obvious workaround - make the assemblies into a multibody part , which works fine - sort of.

Is there another way of getting sw assemblies into the Studio, other than via the plugin and mxs files.? I don't have any of the other translators for files types that Studio can accept.


Jonathan

[b-kandor]

Have you tried this:?

Disable the addin,
Load the assembly,
with it loaded, enable the addin.

[jjs]

It does load this way round but it does not bring in any of the materials that have been assigned in any previous session - A maxwell warning comes up about this - , and you have to keep remebering to unplug the addin before opening any other assembly - which is difficult as its almost second nature when working.

Juan - I suppose I should have mentioned this earlier as it might help track down the problem - Sorry - it did not cross my mind.

Jonathan

[b-kandor]

I confirm that in winxp64 with sw64 using the mr1.5 64bit plugin. With the plugin enabled opening an assembly crashes solidworks.

[jjs]

seems contagious - I should have a bell that I ring and shout - "unclean , unclean"

Jonathan

[jjs]

For new readers - there is now a new released plugin that addresses the original "assmebly " crash issue.

Jonathan