{"id":171254,"date":"2023-06-05T07:06:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T07:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/question-when-i-try-to-import-a-solidworks-file-into-spaceclaim-17-1-i-get-an-error-failover-feature-geometry-interface-for-solidworks-specified-in-license-preferences-is-not-available-feature-s\/"},"modified":"2023-07-31T12:35:21","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T12:35:21","slug":"question-when-i-try-to-import-a-solidworks-file-into-spaceclaim-17-1-i-get-an-error-failover-feature-geometry-interface-for-solidworks-specified-in-license-preferences-is-not-available-feature-s","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/question-when-i-try-to-import-a-solidworks-file-into-spaceclaim-17-1-i-get-an-error-failover-feature-geometry-interface-for-solidworks-specified-in-license-preferences-is-not-available-feature-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Question: When I try to import a Solidworks file into SpaceClaim 17.1 I get an error:  Failover feature &#8216;Geometry Interface for Solidworks&#8217; specified in license preferences is not available  Feature specified is pisolwor  But SpaceClaim should not need pisolwor to import a Solidworks file."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Answer:  You need to set  an option in SpaceClaim:   &#8220;Always use SpaceClaim&#8217;s reader when possible&#8221;  Do this as follows:  Start SpaceClaim Select File > SapceClaim Options,   select File Options >Workbench  and select   &#8220;Always use SpaceClaim&#8217;s reader when possible&#8221;  This was found in 17.1 but applies to all versions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-171254","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-17-1","topic-tag-installation-licensing-systems","topic-tag-licensing","topic-tag-other","topic-tag-spaceclaim-directmodeler-sys"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_wp_page_template":["default"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2\/6\/2023 20:20"],"_bbp_forum_id":["153867"],"_bbp_author_ip":["209.182.204.162"],"_btv_view_count":["1131"],"siebel_km_number":["2046990"],"product_version":["17.1"],"km_published_date":["2017-02-02T00:00:00.000Z"],"family":["Installation\/Licensing\/Systems"],"application_name":["SpaceClaim DirectModeler - SYS"]},"test":"articlesansys-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/171254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/171254\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}