Design Journal and Open Office

I have removed MS Office and replaced it with Open Office.

Now when I try to open a Design Journal, it tells me that I need Microsoft
Word to open the document.

Is there a way round this to open the document using Open Office?

 

The Navigator in Open Office Writer is just a pleasure to use. The
Open Office community is also very helpful. Since SolidWorks Corp is
no longer going to be seen as the mid-priced technology leader and
Solid Edge with Synchronous Technology is, perhaps it should be a
priority to support Open Office in SolidWorks 2009.

SolidWorks 2009 will be known as the most boring release of SolidWorks
ever. Siemens has the tools in Solid Edge to have a field day and
convert many SolidWorks users to Solid Edge because SolidWorks Corp
has and is asleep at the wheel.

Jon Banquer
San Diego, CA
http://jonbanquer.baywords.com/

 

Hi Tom,

DOC files are assocated with Open Office, and if I double clik on one, Open
Ofice opens it.

After some further searching, though I couldn't find much, It appears the
Design Journal.doc file is embedded in the part file, so needs the MS Office
integration links to open it.

 

You're correct. As per usual Tom Brewer is clueless on SolidWorks and
continues to make mistake after mistake after mistake. Suggest you
request SolidWorks Corp. starts supporting Open Office in SolidWorks
2009... it's the least they can do now that it's obvious SolidWorks
2009 is going to be nothing special. No one I know of has upgraded to
SolidWorks 2008... for damn good reason. I doubt they will upgrade to
SolidWorks 2009 either. They may very well upgrade to Solid Edge with
Synchronous Technology.

Jon Banquer
San Diego, CA
http://jonbanquer.baywords.com/

 

IOW You have no clues what was asked about.
Nor is it any of SW's business to "support" banquercadcam
OR babbleonjon.

IOW No clues.

BS.
BTW, Why are YOU trying to promote SE over UG?
SE is a CAD program & UG is a CAD/CAM program as well
at the "flagship product" for which the new stuff was developed
and more fully implemented.
And YOU claim to do what, exactly? Read ads? Remain
utterly clueless?

<Snicker>
Nothing new.

 

I'd recheck all the options that can be set at time of SW
install and also look for environment variables that are being set.

I'd also check for options/flags for calling Open Office -- it may have
some (I don't know) so that it does not have to depend on file type
associations & so forth to decide which bits of Open Office to use.

What happens if you rename MS Word's executable to something
else (briefly just for a test) & then make a link from it's old name to
the Open Office executable? Just curious .....

 

You don't have a clue.

You don't have a clue.

You don't have a clue.

You don't have a clue.

You don't have a clue.

You don't have a clue.

You don't have a clue.

<Snicker>
Nothing new.

 

Ignorant:

“Jon, I never forgot any of your postings about SDRC I made the wrong
decision in spite of what you said. There have been a number of times
that my Wife has told me to be careful in dealing with someone and
after words says "I told you so". She earned the right to say it as
well as you have earned the right to say I TOLD YOU SO. I made a
decision that went against my better judgment and as usual it turned
out poorly.” .... Tom Brewer

Ignorant:

“I do not purchase programs unless I know before hand that they are
what I want and/ or need.”... Tom Brewer who can’t follow his own
advice. See above.

Ignorant:

Tom Brewer thinking he and his pals like Joe788 can play their Usenet
staking games, lie on a repeated basis and suffer no consequences for
doing so.

Ignorant:

“I have shot myself in the foot, not an easy thing to do when it is
in your mouth and your head is in your ass.”… Tom Brewer admitting
what he’s often like.

Ignorant:

Someone who has a proven track record of not being able to deal with
or accept the kind of change that occurs in the cadcam market... now
that's ignorant or should we say that's Tom Brewer.

Ignorant:

Someone who doesn't live in San Diego yet insists there is no shortage
of CNC machinists here... now that's ignorant or should we say that's
Tom Brewer.

Ignorant:

Someone who criticizes someone on SolidWorks but has never helped
anyone with specific SolidWorks answers. Someone who is not able to
answer any questions that “Vinny” had on master modeling or skeletal
modeling. Someone who has never posted any models they have done...
now that's ignorant or should we say that's Tom Brewer.

Ignorant:

Tom Brewer's failure to understand who Matt Lombard really is.

Ignorant:

Tom Brewer’s unable to comprehend what’s on the cover of the
SolidWorks Bible:

"Whether you're a new, intermediate, ...."

Ignorant:

Someone who can’t understand more than a simple “I love it!” or “I
hate it!” type of comment ... now that's ignorant or should we say
that's Tom Brewer.

Ignorant:

Tom Brewer implies that because you acknowledge that the $25
SolidWorks course covers subjects / topics that the $650 SolidWorks
course didn't that you're now somehow an idiot and got screwed when
you decided to purchase the $650 SolidWorks course.

Tom Brewer Writing About SmartCAM:

“I ended up paying a consultant $40.00 per hour for two weeks.”

“FYI, when I said "Solid modeling" in reference to SmartCam it was
tongue in cheek. What you could not see is that when I was typing that
I was laughing to myself. Anyone that uses SmartCam and Solid
Modeling in the same sentence cannot be taken seriously.”

Recently Tom Brewer said SmartCAM had no user interface problems and
yet the record shows Tom Brewer thinks SmartCAM does indeed have user
interface problems:

“The only real problem that I run into is that the screen can get
cluttered and it becomes difficult to pick and choose elements in Free
Form. I just use the utility masking feature to hide what is in the
way, that cures the problem but it does add work (I tried the snap
filtering and snap options but for me it was not the best way), I
have seen other packages that handle picking and choosing in better.”

Conclusion:

Tom Brewer thinks he’s a SolidWorks expert. A SolidWorks expert is
someone who knows more and more about less and less until he knows
absolutely everything about nothing.


Jon Banquer
San Diego, CA
http://jonbanquer.baywords.com/

 

This seems to sum it up:
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SW Has to be extracting the .doc file from it's database &
calling another program to deal with it. It passes the file,
probably as a hidden temp file on disk, to the invoked program
in it's call to it but where the called program is in the file system
could be anywhere so it's using some environment variables
($PATH is one such) and I'd guess that the called program is
set by one too. An $EDITOR variable defined when SW was
installed?
A search of the SW installation for the name of the MS Word
executable (without the .exe I'd suspect) might find where.

 

Still won't work will it, Greyhound? It won't work because SolidWorks
Corp. doesn't want it to work and wants to force SolidWorks users to
use MS Word and MS Excel.

Sucks doesn't it?

Jon Banquer
San Diego, CA
http://jonbanquer.baywords.com/

 

"Choose something Windows native." - jon banquer
" .. is now completely Windows native and no longer has a Unix look and feel
to it .." - jon banquer
".. made easier and made to be a Windows native application" - jon banquer
"Esprit W offers a nice native Windows solution that MasterCam does not" - jon
banquer

" .. one of the first to adopt native Windows support ."
- jon banquer on Aug 11 2007

" .. if you going to be Windows native .. UG did this. CATIA did this.
think3 did this. SolidWorks did this. DelCAM did this. ..."
- jon banquer on Sep 18 2003

"Choose something Windows native."
- jon banquer on Feb 5 2003

" .. can't write native Windows software .."
- jon banquer on Nov 9 2002

"By the time MasterCAM is native Windows will many CAD/CAM companies be
running on another operating system ??? "
- jon banquer on Jun 21 2002

"Cimatron announced their new seamless, unified, hybrid modeler that
is now completely Windows native and no longer has a Unix look and feel to it
..."
- jon banquer on Dec 31 2001

"Has Vero US finally figured out that you need a native Windows GUI and all
the tools that go with it in order to gain market acceptance from design
professionals. (SolidWorks, SolidEdge, Preventor, MDT, UG, (Pro/E getting
closer), etc. ALL HAVE the type of GUI that I'm referring to."
- jon banquer on Dec 30 2001

"I believe it was one of the first, if not the first, true native Windows
programs."
- jon banquer on Mar 4 2000

"Version 16 is a true native Windows product."
- jon banquer on Jan 29 2000

"It was built from the ground up as a native Windows application."
- jon banquer on Dec 21 1999

" .. move to being a Native Windows application .. "
- jon banquer on Dec 12 1999

"When Cimatron releases their native Windows package this also maybe a good
choice for you"
- jon banquer on Dec 7 1999

".. VX Vision in 100 percent native Windows."
- jon banquer on Dec 2 1999

" .. a native Windows package."
- jon banquer on Nov 29 1999

" ... the ever increasing competition of more and more native Windows CAM
programs, that are as easy or .."
- jon banquer on Nov 17 1999

"The whole system in now native Windows to the max."
- jon banquer on Nov 10 1999

"How much longer will SDRC NOT have a native Windows solution ??"
- jon banquer on Oct 25 1999

".. not quite as nice as a native Windows GUI .. "
- jon banquer on Sep 29 1999

"To make it in the US you have to be Windows native .."
- jon banquer on Sep 29 1999

"GUI not fully native Windows."
- jon banquer on Sep 20 1999

"The price that SurfWARE has already paid for not moving to native Windows .."
- jon banquer on Jul 11 1999

"UG will be native Windows by year end."
- jon banquer on Jul 9 1999

"I don't think MasterCAM Version 8, due in the fall, is going to be Windows
native."
- jon banquer on Apr 29 1999

"CATIA Version 5 Native Windows is one of the best CAD packages available .."
- jon banquer on Mar 31 1999

".. CAM system to a native Windows GUI. Looks a lot better than the old GUI
..."
- jon banquer on Mar 29 1999

"With no macro language, with no educational program to speak of, with no
native Windows user interface, .."
- jon banquer on Mar 17 1999

"When will Pro/E finally be native Windows ??"
- jon banquer on Feb 28 1999

"Unlike most Windows-native 3D modelers, Varimetrix develops its own modeling
kernel called UPG2."
- jon banquer on Feb 19 1999

" .. CATIA 5, native Windows, it looks like the best package I
have EVER seen."
- jon banquer on Dec 20 1998

" .. I wish I had your job selling and supporting quality CAD/CAM packages
like native Windows CATIA 5 ..."
- jon banquer on Dec 5 1998

"Vero is already Windows native."
- jon banquer on Dec 3 1998

"Understand CATIA Version 5 native Windows is just awesome."
- jon banquer on Nov 23 1998

"Cadkey 98 does not have a true native Windows interface."
- jon banquer on Nov 19 1998

" ... native Windows interface will have your students concentrating on what
is important.....learning the machining process's involved, not on the CAD /CAM
systems .."
- jon banquer on Nov 9 1998

"Esprit W offers a nice native Windows solution that MasterCam does not"
- jon banquer on Oct 26 1998

"Have you seen CATIA 5.0 Native windows...... Looks awesome."
- jon banquer on Oct 16 1998

There's LOTS more.

 

I firstly re-installed Word, and it opens the Design Jounal as expected.

Renamimg WINWORD.EXE, and replacing it with a shortcut of the same name that
points to OOo writer, starts the MS Office installer and if I cancel that,
it still opens MS Word.

 

If Tom Brewer or Cliff Huprich had clue one they would have told you
that. The FACT is that Tom Brewer is no SolidWorks expert and makes
mistake after mistake after mistake when it comes to CADCAM as he did
once again here. Cliff Huprich has never used SolidWorks.

You're not going to get this to work because SolidWorks Corp. wants
you married to Word and Excel.

Jon Banquer
San Diego, CA
http://jonbanquer.baywords.com/

 

If Tom Brewer or Cliff Huprich had clue one they would have told you
that. The FACT is that Tom Brewer is no SolidWorks expert and makes
mistake after mistake after mistake when it comes to CADCAM as he did
once again here. Cliff Huprich has never used SolidWorks.

You're not going to get this to work because SolidWorks Corp. wants
you married to Word and Excel.

Jon Banquer
San Diego, CA
http://jonbanquer.baywords.com/

 

been trying with open office and i can not get it to work in word
document or excel spreadsheets. quite distressing. i had to install
excel for usablity. still thinking about word. this seems to be hard-
wired into SWx to only use MSoft products, SWx must have got a good
payoff for doing it this way.

Can we change OT to On Topic as the off topic seems to be reigning in
this group? just kidding.

Please ignore all that are wacking their banquer. iQ

 

Did you try a call to SW support?
If so, what did they say?

And did you search for the call to MS Word or check the
install variables & scripts & docs?

 

If Tom Brewer or Cliff Huprich had clue one they would have told you
that. The FACT is that Tom Brewer is no SolidWorks expert and makes
mistake after mistake after mistake when it comes to CADCAM as he did
once again here. Cliff Huprich has never used SolidWorks.

You're not going to get this to work because SolidWorks Corp. wants
you married to Word and Excel.

Jon Banquer
San Diego, CA
http://jonbanquer.blogspot.com/

 

You don't have clue #1, eh?

Back to that, eh?

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Gee, told who what, clueless?
You kind of lack context (as well as content).

And I assume you've never tried <G>.
About as much help as a wet noodle, as usual, you are.

BTW, How are your schemes for the Tri-State Area
coming along today?
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