Inventor 14 VBA Failed to Initialize

[CalTran]

Originally Posted by techhelpbb

Bet you will get the same error if you try to open that.

And, er, how would I go about trying out this test?

[Michael Hill]

I've had the same issue in the past. It was a new version of Microsoft Office that was the culprit. It seems to want to argue with Inventor. Something about how Office runs VBA in it's own little environment or something like that. Look for VBA7.msi in your Inventor installation media (You may have to download it from Autodesk, but not follow through with installation again, because I think the default behavior after installing Inventor is to delete the installation files). Install that and Inventor should run fine (for now). I've heard opening an Office application will undo your progress and you'll have to reinstall the VBA7.msi every time, but I can't confirm that. Apparently it's a known issue and Autodesk and Microsoft are working together on a solution. In the mean time, the customer loses.

Good luck

[techhelpbb]

Originally Posted by Michael Hill

I've had the same issue in the past. It was a new version of Microsoft Office that was the culprit. It seems to want to argue with Inventor. Something about how Office runs VBA in it's own little environment or something like that. Look for VBA7.msi in your Inventor installation media (You may have to download it from Autodesk, but not follow through with installation again, because I think the default behavior after installing Inventor is to delete the installation files). Install that and Inventor should run fine (for now). I've heard opening an Office application will undo your progress and you'll have to reinstall the VBA7.msi every time, but I can't confirm that. Apparently it's a known issue and Autodesk and Microsoft are working together on a solution. In the mean time, the customer loses.

Good luck

Yeap that's the exact issue I linked earlier.
Just be glad you didn't get French for a spell checker (not kidding that was an actual Office bug).

To start VBA in Microsoft Word or Excel:
Open either program.
Press these keys at the same time: ALT F11

Bet you get an error instead of the VBA editor.

[CalTran]

Originally Posted by techhelpbb

Yeap that's the exact issue I linked earlier.
Just be glad you didn't get French for a spell checker (not kidding that was an actual Office bug).

To start VBA in Microsoft Word or Excel:
Open either program.
Press these keys at the same time: ALT F11

Bet you get an error instead of the VBA editor.

Well for Microsoft Office University 2013 Word I got what appeared to be a VBA editor rather than an error.

[techhelpbb]

Originally Posted by CalTran

Well for Microsoft Office University 2013 Word I got what appeared to be a VBA editor rather than an error.

Guess I lost that bet
Interesting that it works at all.
Probably have the older version.

As pointed out above try to search for your VBA7.msi file.
Run that.

[ehochstein]

I ran into the same exact problem. I've been using Solidworks and Creo while I wait on a solution from Autodesk/Microsoft.

[techhelpbb]

Originally Posted by Wiifi

I ran into the same exact problem. I've been using Solidworks and Creo while I wait on a solution from Autodesk/Microsoft.

What version of Office are you running?

[ehochstein]

Originally Posted by techhelpbb

What version of Office are you running?

2013

Originally Posted by Michael Hill

This issue extends (just a little bit) to SolidWorks as well (and rather annoyingly). In order for SolidWorks to open Inventor files, it requires Inventor to be installed (or possibly just the reader), but in any case, if you have the issue with Inventor, you cannot open up ipt files in SolidWorks either. This is rather annoying if FIRST releases game elements in Inventor files (like they have in the past). Fortunately, many files also have STEP versions available.

Generally I just wait for the STEP files to come out. I know the conversions are not perfect but I have no problem going in and fixing the important parts if need be. I haven't been using any FIRST published files lately, mostly been designing dream robots for Ultimate Ascent http://www.3dcontentcentral.com/ also has a ton of solidworks files for FIRST

[techhelpbb]

I was able to install Inventor 2014 in a VMWare Workstation 9 virtual machine with Windows 7 Home Premium 32bit and .NET Framework 4.5 full administrative download.

It starts fine like this.
Will try installing Office 2013 over it later.

It put Vba7.msi in:
C:\Autodesk\Autodesk_Inventor_2014_Eng_32bit_dlm\3 rdParty\x86\VBA

By any chance are any of the affected people using the 64bit version of Microsoft Office?

[Michael Hill]

Originally Posted by Wiifi

I ran into the same exact problem. I've been using Solidworks and Creo while I wait on a solution from Autodesk/Microsoft.

This issue extends (just a little bit) to SolidWorks as well (and rather annoyingly). In order for SolidWorks to open Inventor files, it requires Inventor to be installed (or possibly just the reader), but in any case, if you have the issue with Inventor, you cannot open up ipt files in SolidWorks either. This is rather annoying if FIRST releases game elements in Inventor files (like they have in the past). Fortunately, many files also have STEP versions available.

[ehoyla]

Thank you to everyone on this thread. It's the day before our first regional and I need to tweak the CAD and this problem just happened to me for the first time. You all literally saved me. Thank you for being more helpful than the Autodesk website!!

[WIREDFTC]

That is odd. I use Inventor 2014 Pro 64 Bit and Office 2013 Pro 64 Bit on Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit and I have had no problems (knock on wood).

[inventor_phild]

Here is the link from the Autodesk website to resolve this issue.

http://knowledge.autodesk.com/suppor...-properly.html

[D_Price]

Noo Phild got to it before me. I had the same issue when running Inventor 14 on Windows 8. The link is posted below hope it helps!

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Invent...946394#M472744