Hi all,

Just thought I'd share a few words of wisdom with the online community.

I work on the support line at Solid Solutions, a SolidWorks Reseller in the UK and I do come across a few issues that can be overcome, so I hope this comes in handy to some.

Microsoft office 2013 is not supported in SolidWorks 2013, however it will be supported in 2014.

I’ve found two issues with Microsoft office 2013 with SolidWorks 2013, one is that the user is unable to use equation - they get a ‘syntax error’ whenever they try to use/input any value in the equations window. Two, if the user tries to access the macro commands under Tools> Macros then SolidWorks will crash with an ‘error encountered’. The only way around both of these (that I have found) would be to uninstalled Office 2013 and SolidWorks and then reinstall SolidWorks.

Olly Smith

Applications Engineer