Solidworks Viewer Error - will not open model
Solidworks Viewer Error - will not open model
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Hello all,
I was asked by a customer to provide my solidmodels as well as a Solidworks Viewer program to view the models.
I have created clean versions of my models (copy references) and I can get 4 out of 6 of my models to open within the viewer.
The other two get the following error:
"Cannot open C://......SLDASM. The file is either corrupted of from a version that is not supported by the current version of the SolidWorks Viewer software."
Any ideas why I might be getting this only on SOME of my assemblies?
Thanks a bunch!
I was asked by a customer to provide my solidmodels as well as a Solidworks Viewer program to view the models.
I have created clean versions of my models (copy references) and I can get 4 out of 6 of my models to open within the viewer.
The other two get the following error:
"Cannot open C://......SLDASM. The file is either corrupted of from a version that is not supported by the current version of the SolidWorks Viewer software."
Any ideas why I might be getting this only on SOME of my assemblies?
Thanks a bunch!






RE: Solidworks Viewer Error - will not open model
Were all the parts & assemblies created with the same version & SP of SW?
Is the viewer of the same version as your SW version?
Is there anything "fancy" or different in the offending assys? (Patterns, Mirrors, Assy holes, etc)
Are they very large files?
Do they have an excessive number of top level mates?
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RE: Solidworks Viewer Error - will not open model
Check out what CorBlimeyLimey posted and see if that works.
Jeff Mowry
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RE: Solidworks Viewer Error - will not open model
As CBL pointed out you can also send the customer eDrawing files in a variety of formats. This has the advantage of you maintaining control of your files. eDrawing files cannot be fed to a CAM package, but native SWX part files can.
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RE: Solidworks Viewer Error - will not open model
Jeff Mowry
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Reality is no respecter of good intentions.
RE: Solidworks Viewer Error - will not open model
I have tried many of your suggestions before, but here is what I did this time:
I opened my assembly, removed all the excess configurations, dissolved all the patterns, broke the links to all of the assy holes, and saved a fresh copy elsewhere where I redefined all the references into the new folder (references button within SAVE AS). No luck!
FYI, some of the parts were created within SW2004 and I am now using SW2005/SW Viewer 2005. I opened these parts and resaved them within 2005. I wouldn't say there are an excessive amount of top level mates ~100. I have seen worse!
I agree that I need to check it on another computer, and I have, but I am not going to try it again until it works on my workstation!
Thanks again everybody. Please help if you can! I am stumped!
RE: Solidworks Viewer Error - will not open model
Can you open the "sldasm" files with the eDrawing program?
Can you save the files to eDrawing "easm" format & open them in the eDrawing program?
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RE: Solidworks Viewer Error - will not open model
thanks for the input.
I can open the assembly from edrawings - which makes me think perhaps I should provide the models to my customer with edrawings...
However! I still cannot get the files to open from within the solidworks viewer. While I do have library parts, I have saved them out of the library and into the folder containing all of my solidmodels. I saved a new copy of each of these files, so they should be SW2005...
Any more ideas!?
Thanks
RE: Solidworks Viewer Error - will not open model
Let us know what you find.
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RE: Solidworks Viewer Error - will not open model
We don't provide assy model to customers. We would create a part from the assy. If they do not have SW, then we create an edrawing for them. You can open the part or assembly in edrawings and saveas an EXE incase they don't have edrawings
RE: Solidworks Viewer Error - will not open model
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Scott Baugh, CSWP
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