Autodesk Inventor

[#1]

I'm a teacher and recently had Inventor Professional 2013 installed on my laptop. 2 of my co-workers have the exact same model of HP Laptop, yet they don't have the same issue as me.

When I finish my assembly, I access the Tools bar to find my Inventor Studio is greyed out and can't click it. This is a huge pain in the **** as my laptop is the only one at my training session that is having this problem in a room full of 40 other teachers. After several uninstalls and reinstalls, I have the same problem with no solution in sight.

Someone please help as Autodesk support hasn't been able to shed any other light on fixing this issue.

[#2]

Hi cplach,

It sounds like you've done some trouble shooting with AD, but you didn't mention what you've done other than uninstall / reinstall, so forgive me if you've already checked this:

Go to the Tools tab > Add Ins button  and look for the Studio Add-in. If it's there is it loaded?

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com

[#3]

Please see the attached screen shot. I have looked in the Add-Ins, it says Inventor Studio is Loaded and supposed to be automatically.

[#4]

does this happen with every file?

[#5]

Yes. No matter what file I open, it remains unavailable.

I've tried to create new assemblies but I still come across the same problem.

After disabling and re-enabling through the Add-Ins, I can click Inventor Studio now but all of the children options are greyed out.

[#6]

Tried to reinstall it again and it's still giving me the same problem.

Would this have anything to do with activating the product?

[#7]

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cplach wrote:

Would this have anything to do with activating the product?

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No.

Did you follow the Autodesk Clean Uninstall document (search Google)?

Did you install with anti-virus and UAC turned off (important)?

Before you go through that again -

I noticed that you are showing from the Tools tab.

Instead of that go to Enviroments tab and select Studio
(once I do that I show an active Render tab and the button Studio button on the Tools tab is grayed out like yours).

[#8]

Doing a clean uninstall now. I'll report back in an hour or so with an update.

It doesn't really matter if you go through tools or environments to access Inventor Studio. It's executing the same command.

[#9]

no such luck.

[#10]

Hi cplach,

I'm not sure if this will work with Inventor 2013, but maybe it's worth a try:

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=13404176&linkID=9242018

Another thing to look at would be user profiles. Can you log in under / or create a different user profile (as the admin possibly) and start Inventor to see if the issue persists? It seems that I recall issues of a similar type being resolved by recreating a user profile (maybe?)

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com