Task Scheduler 2006 - Upgrade required?

Hi all,
I have TSched2006 SP0.0. I no longer have the service agreement with
my SW provider. As murphy would have it as soon as you stop paying for
the service/mainteance, something goes wrong. I have worked around
this problem up till now, but really need to use TS now.

The problem is that I scheduler a bunch of .slddwg's to be exported to
..dxf. The scheduled task just sits there and does not start running.

with the engine not starting and requires the next service pack
upgrade.

Anyone else had his problem or got any ideas on how to fix this? Don't
say to get service/maintenance contract

Cheers,
Chris.

 

I was under the belief that SolidWorks would give you the SP needed, for a

I read this on another issue and so I sent an email asking my VAR. I
never got an answer back but only the question of what was my current
Version and SP. I replied and they sent me a link that gave me the
update. But, they never did answer the question as to if SP's are
available without being on maintenance.... Seems like if this is the
policy that SW and the VAR's should just be honest and say so.

Yet another reason why I believe that the Technical half of SW works
very hard but perhaps the Marketing group, (whoever has come up with so
many of these bad policies that are bad for the users and also for SW)
should be replaced. BTW, I changed VAR's...

Edt

 

Thanks John and Ed,

I will give PAC4SWX a go. As for batch printing I have been using
SWBatchPrint by Vinodh Kumar.

Thanks again,
Chris.

 

What I've found to be the problem when this happens, is it's usually caused
by the file 'swBOEngine.exe' not running BEFORE you run your batch.

I've found that even if you try to run 'swBOEngine.exe' AFTER you have
already run your batch, it still won't work.

You need to cancel your batch and run 'swBOEngine.exe' before starting up
Task Scheduler.

One thing you can do, to make sure 'swBOEngine.exe' is running before you
run Task Scheduler is, put 'swBOEngine.exe' in your 'Startup' group. that
way it will always be running. Unless of course you were to kill the
process. Then 'swBOEngine.exe' would need to be restarted.

Richard

 

Richard,

Thankyou. It works!!

Much appreciated,
Chris.