Cannot open Inventor files with the Inventor Viewer.

[Anonymous]

This is regarding Historic Inventor version 10 files.

The Inventor Viewer 2012 does open the file.

but when I try to open the same file with the Inventor Viewer 2012 ActiveX control.

It fails with the error:

[ERROR] The database in I:\Pack_Go Inventor Files\52080-001\bracket.ipt could not be opened.

What gives? 

What is the full viewer doing that the control is not?

I have made sure that apprentice is referencing the Default.ipj project file in the Viewer Install folder.

[Edit]  Just tested with an Inventor 2011 part.  Same Error.  [/Edit]

[Anonymous]

Okay,

On the off chance my development PC was toast I wiped it clean.  Reinstalled WinXP and all related software.

Installed VB6 and InventorViewer 2012.

Created a new VB Project with a Form. 

1) The Viewer Control does not show up in the list of available components.  (I believe it use to.)

2) After browsing to and selecting C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor 2012\Bin\InventorViewCtrl.ocx the icon shows up in the controls tool box.

Drew the control on the form.

Added a button with the following code to load an existing file.

Private Sub Command1_Click()

  InventorViewControl1.filename = "G:\ - IT Support\007.ipt"

End Sub

I receive the same error as in my last post.

Running  InventorView.exe  I can load the file into the viewer just fine.

Am I missing something?  This use to work with previous versions of inventor.

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I have exact the same problem. Have you found a solution?

--Tim

[Anonymous]

Other than rolling everything back to 2011, No.

A bug report was filed with Autodesk and they verified that it was a real bug.

Said it would probably be fixed in a future version / release.

Never heard back from them.

[Anonymous]

Ok, i have found my solution:

- Install Inventor View 2012 - (the InventorViewCtrl.ocx will not work! "[ERROR] The database in [filename] could not be opened.")
- Install Inventor View 2011(!) parallel
- Start Inventor View 2011 and register (regsvr32) the InventorViewCtrl.ocx 2011-Version.
- Start Inventor View 2012 and register InventorViewCtrl.ocx back. (2012)

Now opens InventorViewCtrl.ocx Inventor 2012 files.

--Tim

[Anonymous]

While this might work with Windows 7 it does not work with Windows XP.