Being Inventive

Welcome to the Inventor support blog!

 This is a blog maintained by the Inventor product support group at Autodesk.

We plan to cover a plethora of subjects that we come across in our daily work, starting with the most recent 2010 release of Inventor but we will not shy away from topics going three releases back.

We hope our experience will be also your gain and that the posts we will publish here will make your life with Inventor even more pleasurable.

And remember: be inventive with Inventor.

Bob

Collection of Inventor product support videos

We just created an Autodesk Inventor Product Support Video Solutions playlist on YouTube. The playlist contains the longer training videos that the Inventor product support department produces every month. These videos are typically 20 to 30 minutes long. Check out the latest video about the Inventor 2010 Subscription Advantage Pack.

How to Register your missing Add-Ins

You have installed Inventor 2010 and certain Add-Ins are missing from the Add-In Manager. You want to know how to restore them.

Please check out the following solution TS13909656

Update 1 for AutoCAD Mechanical 2010 !!!

AutoCAD Mechanical 2010 Update 1 is now available. Fatal errors on copy & paste commands for symbols, Standard library and custom content problems have been fixed in this service pack.

 

Download it from the link below:

 

http://usa.autodesk.com/getdoc/id=DL13842127

 

 

Import JT files into Inventor 2010

You imported a .jt file into Inventor 2010 and the imported file is empty. Please refer to the technical solution TS13836987 for more information.

 

Hotfix for R2010Sp1 is now available

As announced in earlier posts, the Inventor team has published hotfix TS1109427 to fix two problems that were discovered after Sp1 was published to the web.
The first problem was around borrowed licenses and the second problem related to erroneous update messages in the LiveUpdate portion of the product.

Since Wednesday August 26 , we also replaced Sp1 on the web with a version of Sp1 that no longer has these two problems.

Users that downloaded Sp1 prior to Wednesday August 26 are strongely advised to install this hotfix. Users that downloaded Sp1 after that date should be fine and don't need to install the hotfix.
If you don't recall the exact date of your Sp1 download, you may still apply the hotfix as it will have no effect on the corrected version of the service pack. 
There is also a second way to find out if you need to apply the hotfix or not.
Go to Control Panel\Programs and Features (Vista) or Control Panel\Add or Remove Programs (Windows XP) and make sure the "Show updates" checkbox is checked. If there is a "Remove" button present for Sp1, your machine will benefit from applying the hotfix.  

Our apologies for this confusion.

Bob

Update on Inventor 2010 Service Pack 1

Correct version of SP1 for Inventor 2010 is now available for download (Inventor SP1) . If you have installed a wrong version of SP1 which was posted to the same site a couple of days ago, please read the following.

Issues with the wrong SP

SP is not linked to the Live Update, so the installer will not recognize this as an available service pack and prevent you from adding or merging it to a deployment image.

We ran into a last minute problem which prevents users from borrowing ACAD/M licenses and which needs to be corrected as well.

Actions taken are :

1. Correct version of SP1 (253d Build) is available. Please install the right version of SP1 from the above link.

2. For the old one that has been installed, development team is working on a hot fix for the above issues and it will be released soon.

Note : The only way to check which build you have installed is,

Go to Windows Add/remove program.

•253b will have a "remove" button.
•253d exceptionally will not show a remove button and cannot be uninstalled via the regular UI.

The procedure to remove the build via the command line is documented in the Read me document of the SP.

Let us know, if you are facing any additional problems after installing the wrong SP1 from the above link.

Log In/Out icons missing on the Vault Toolbar.

You no longer have the ability to Log In or Out of Vault from Inventor 2010, the icons are missing from the Vault Toolbar.

Here is the link to the Technical Solution TS13404857

New solution posted for users of a 3DConnexion mouse

You may experience intermittent crashes when using a 3DConnexion mouse controller in conjunction with Inventor 2010.

Read this technical solution on how to get rid of this problem.

Where did we hide the Assembly Bonus Tools in 2010?

If life would be simple, you would expect we'd put Assembly Tools in the "Tools" ribbon, wouldn't you? :-)

Well life is complex and in Inventor 2010, the Assembly Tools can be found in the Productivity pull-down on the Assemble ribbon.

So for all of you that searched for the Assembly tools in vain, here is a visual guide on how to get to the goodies.

First navigate to the Assemble panel

 

Then locate the Productivity panel

 

Then select  the flyout panel (icon with black down arrow)

 

Once you use a productivity command, it will show up as the default productivity command in the main panel.

New Autodesk Labs Site Design Unveiled

The new Autodesk Labs site redesign went live last Thursday night. Thanks to Marketing Manager, Amanda Collins, who lead our efforts and Senior Strategic Designer, Doug Look, who created the new "look" for the site. We'd also like to thank our partners, Prem Wongsaichua and Zuki Ndulo, who developed the community platform upon which Autodesk Labs is based and Grant Coulombe and Jarrod Lopiccolo who created many of the images that decorate the new site.

If you use the way back machine, you can see our humble beginnings:

 

 

We are all very happy with the new site and hope you find it easier to use.

Designing for feedback is alive in the lab.