Comments on: SolidWorks Tips and Tricks 2011

By: Charles

Charles — Thu, 26 May 2011 20:07:37 +0000

Steve, there is a video for this presentation. Look a little lower on the page... Video Presentation of the SolidWorks World 2011 Proceedings: Video of SolidWorks Tips and Tricks 2011 Views: 697

By: Phil Sluder

Phil Sluder — Thu, 26 May 2011 01:13:13 +0000

Steve,

My intent was to make the PowerPoint of my SWW2011 presentation available for the community to use within their company and/or at user group meetings, etc. I felt the example files were simple enough to recreate, so I did not include them. For a detailed explanation and full video of the presentation, you can follow the link found elsewhere in the description.

Thanks, – Phil

By: Steve Peterson

Steve Peterson — Wed, 25 May 2011 17:17:50 +0000

I am not having problems with the .zip file thing. I downloadd the .pptx file no problem. When i open the file in Powerpoint 2010, I get a bunch of slides, but the slide show does not run.

That is fine – I can view them one at a time. But is there video to go with this? Am I supposed to get something out of this? I can see that a problem is being posed in the various slides, but without the script or a video track, this presentation does not do much for increasing my understanding of anything other than the depths of my ignorance. – Now I know about more things that are a problem I don’t know how to solve!

By: Charles

Charles — Fri, 20 May 2011 20:40:27 +0000

David, et al.

The file is a 2007-2010 Powerpoint file. It sounds like you are still running 2003 or earlier. You can download a converter from Microsoft here: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/923505

Or, you can download a Powerpoint viewer here, that works with all versions of Powerpoint: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?familyid=048DC840-14E1-467D-8DCA-19D2A8FD7485&displaylang=en

By: CS

CS — Fri, 20 May 2011 18:21:52 +0000

download the latest Power Point viewer from Microsoft
or I believe there is a conversion pack to dummy it down for older MS Office suites at least I know this exsist for Work and Excel.

By: CS

CS — Fri, 20 May 2011 18:19:00 +0000

If you have an older power point that cannot view .pptx then go to Microsoft.com and download the newest Power Point viewer (its free).

By: TomH

TomH — Fri, 20 May 2011 17:00:46 +0000

Guys, you have to change the extension of the “.zip” file to “.pptx”. Then it will open normally. Do NOT try to “unzip” the file with Winzip or something.

IE changed teh .pptx to a .zip, so just change it back and all is good. It’s an MS problem, not a SW issue, beyond they guy is having trouble with IE.

Cool down, and lay-off on the SW slams, until you really have a gripe/issue.

This isn’t the first time I’ve seen this, it happens fairly commonly with web-transfers of Office files.

By: MikeP

MikeP — Fri, 20 May 2011 03:08:03 +0000

I changed the .zip to pptx in the download manager and saved straight as pptx. I am viewing in MS Powerpoint 2002 (Build 10.6501.6626)SP3 with no problem. I can even edit it if I want. To run as a show, click the screen icon, bottom left of screen. Can’t say if there is sound because there’s no sound on my (Works) PC.
This also runs in Portable OOO and Libra Office.
Cheers

By: David Bowdle

David Bowdle — Thu, 19 May 2011 22:03:39 +0000

How can you view the presentation if you still have PowerPoint 2003, which does not recognize *.pptx?

By: Charles

Charles — Thu, 19 May 2011 03:14:32 +0000

Jack. I will look into this later. I am not a SW employee, I run this site on my own free time, and I am out of town on vacation.

I will try and get this resolved, but in the meantime run a real browser, like Chrome.

- I have diagnosed the error with the way Internet Explorer handles the download. I’m not sure what it is doing, but it is automatically converting the .pptx file to a .zip file. Chrome, Firefox, and Safari do not automatically rename the file (isn’t that nice of IE to know what is best for us). All you need to do is rename the file extension to .pptx.