Category: Autodesk
McAfee Consumer Product Removal tool
Sometimes McAfee products causes more grief than joy. For some mysterious reason, some, if not all, McAfee products interfer with the handling of VBScript as they register their own .dll file for handling VBScript. Not all attempts at manually correcting the Windows Registry prove successful. In most cases McAfee Consumer Product Removal tool are able […]
Read More → McAfee Consumer Product Removal toolAutodesk Inventor Professional 2014 SP1 and Dell Inspiron 7520
A student had recently installed Autodesk Inventor Professional 2014 SP1 on his Dell Inspiron 7520, running Windows 8.1. Inventor refused to run and crashed with a more or less useless crash report. It turns out that Dell or possibly someone else hadn’t properly installed the driver for the AMD Radeon HD graphics card. Catalyst Control […]
Read More → Autodesk Inventor Professional 2014 SP1 and Dell Inspiron 7520Autodesk Inventor Professional 2015: Serious error: VBA failed to initialize properly. Please restart Inventor.
It’s the same story all over again. While preparing installation instructions for Autodesk Inventor Professional 2015, for my students, I came across an error I thought would have been fixed by now.
Read More → Autodesk Inventor Professional 2015: Serious error: VBA failed to initialize properly. Please restart Inventor.Autodesk Inventor Professional 2014: VBA failed to initialize. Please restart Inventor.
If you receive such an error message from Autodesk Inventor Professional 2014, you might need to reinstall the VBA 7 modules. See http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item/print?siteID=123112&id=21910314&linkID=9242018 for more details. The short story is to shut down Inventor and reinstall the VBA 7 modules using either 3rdParty\x64\VBA\Vba7.MSI or 3rdParty\x86\VBA\Vba7.MSI from the installation media or from C:\Autodesk.
Read More → Autodesk Inventor Professional 2014: VBA failed to initialize. Please restart Inventor.Dialog boxes for file handling missing in AutoCAD?
A student came by my office today and wondered if I knew how to bring back the usual dialog boxes for file handling in AutoCAD. A quick search using Google revealed the filedia command. The solution is to execute the filedia command, enter 1 (the digit one) as the requested input, hit the enter key, […]
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