Cannot create or edit thread features or tapped holes

You try to apply a thread to a hole but the thread table is not loaded and Inventor either hangs or produces an error.

The following steps will help you change the registry setting so that threads and tapped holes will use Excel to read the thread spreadsheet instead of Microsoft’s ADO.

Start, Run.

 

Type regedit in the Run dialog box.

 
 In the Registry editor go to the following key, depending on your Inventor version.

Inventor 2012:  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Autodesk\Inventor\RegistryVersion16.0\System\Preferences\Part

Inventor 2011:  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Autodesk\Inventor\RegistryVersion15.0\System\Preferences\Part

Inventor 2010:  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Autodesk\Inventor\RegistryVersion14.0\System\Preferences\Part

Inventor 2009:  HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Autodesk\Inventor\RegistryVersion13.0\System\Preferences\Part

 
Under Part, select UseExcelToReadthreadFile and double-click. 

 

Change 0 to 1 in the Edit DWORD Value dialog box, OK.

Close the Registry editor and restart Inventor.

Ale

Comments

[JOSE ARMAS]

Thanks a lot!. Excellent tips.

[eytan]

good !! thanks very very very much !!