Recently, I've had a few customers run into errors that anyone could get hung up on. Both of these errors have to do with the IOP samples, but the first is a lot more common.
So you get the AcisImport built and running, and you want to import a V5 file. You run something like AcisImport.exe -i block.CATPart -o block.sat and you see the following error:
Error: CATDocumentServices did not open block.CATPart
Most likely you don't have your CATIA environment set up correctly. See: http://doc.spatial.com/index.php/InterOp:Connect/CATIA_V5_Installation
More specifically, you probably don't have the environment variable CATDeaultEnvironment set correctly. It needs to be set to the exact same thing as you used for the -e option when you called setcatenv.exe.
Now on to a more obscure problem. You are running Windows (xp/vista) x64 so you download the x64 packages and install everything without a problem. Now you want to build the connect/simple_vc9x64 project. When you call devenv, you get the following error message:
The project consists entirely of configurations that require support for platforms which are not installed on this machine. The project cannot be loaded.
The problem here is you are trying to load a x64 project with a x86 compiler and Visual Studio doesn't like it at all. More than likely, you are not using the compiler you intended to because the x86 compiler is in the path before the compiler you think you are using. It is also likely, that you accidentally installed the 32 bit compiler when you meant to install the 64 bit version.
Got a better hang up to share? Please do :)
Robert Tadlock
Technical Account Manager
