Autodesk Inventor

[#1]

Or have it make a Recovery Save (similar to when ACAD crashes) I can understand the problems that can arise (Crash during an Assembly, which parts, sub-assemblies, files, etc... does the program save as Recovery?) But there are always solutions to problems, they just have to figure them out!

[#2]

That's definately the AutoDesk way.

Don't fix the crashes, just include an autosave feature!

I'd like to point out, by the way, that I finally got around to doing a forum search to see why I can't reorder component patterns. I wish I could say I was surprised by the answer. But why fix a basic thing like that when you could just implement an infinately more useful iCloud?!

[#3]

Hi! Did Inventor hang or crash? Do you have the files that can reproduce this behavior? If so, please send them to me and I would like to try it on my machine.

Many thanks!

[#4]

OMG - NO!!!!!! No to Autosave in Inventor (or any other parametric modeler). Last thing I want to have the CAD program do is save in the middle of me trying to design something, not knowing if that's the path I want to take or not.

I'd much rather risk the crash than have an autosave!

Inventor is used as a design tool, thus autosave would be a killer during the designing stages.

Just save your files when you reach a specific point and it's the result you want.

But then again, you could always give up Inventor and use Solidworks, afterall I hear it butters your toast for you each morning...seriously, just as the two guys I just had this type of discussion with.....ugh. SW must have some very good flavored Kool-Aid they hand out to their users.

[#5]

Dan,

If I recall, if Inventor does crash you can access the file in the "old versions" folder (or something along those lines) and there you'll find the file as it was right before the crash. Inventor does seem to save the file when a crash happens....or it seemed to at some point.

[#6]

(When I hit Reply and have to log in the reply is always to the post at the top of the page with multiple page threads, luckily this is the other post that my reply will be relevant to)

It would have to be a recovery save because as (now I don't know who I was really trying to reply to) said before (or would that be later?) sometimes I'm messing around with a design and just want to see what something would look like if I tried doing something a little different - an autosave could end up being worse than a crash. So maybe in addition to the old versions folder there would be an autosave folder that would work the same way, or something.

[#7]

It was a hang that it refused to come out of, after waiting several minutes I killed the process and moved on with my life.

I have the files but when I came in the next morning and pulled those files back up I went through the same modeling steps as before (the best I could remember) and IV did not hang or crash. This seems to be a completely random occurence in that I can't find any common denominator between what I'm doing each time it crashes/hangs.

[#8]

I agree with CDS.  If I'm in the middle of something heavy I'd rather it NOT try to autosave.

Ever since I started using AutoCAD back in 1992 I've learned to save often.  So I save in between commands, multiple times throughout a string of commands, etc.

I do that with all software that I use, not just AutoDesk software.  Even if they use autosave I would still manually save my work regularly.

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CelticDesignServices wrote:

OMG - NO!!!!!! No to Autosave in Inventor (or any other parametric modeler). Last thing I want to have the CAD program do is save in the middle of me trying to design something, not knowing if that's the path I want to take or not.

I'd much rather risk the crash than have an autosave!

Inventor is used as a design tool, thus autosave would be a killer during the designing stages.

Just save your files when you reach a specific point and it's the result you want.

But then again, you could always give up Inventor and use Solidworks, afterall I hear it butters your toast for you each morning...seriously, just as the two guys I just had this type of discussion with.....ugh. SW must have some very good flavored Kool-Aid they hand out to their users.

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[#9]

I understand the problem with the Autosave and that you may not want to continue from the point of crashing, that is why when it does Autosave (forexample in ACAD) it saves it has (file name)_recovery.  So you have the option of loading up the original file (file last saved before the crash) or the new file (point at which your file crashed).  Giving you the option to continue or to revert back. 

[#10]

The Autosave feature in my eyes is a big NO NO. The _recovery is a good idea, but I still use the "Old Versions" as a "Poor man's" Vault. (Don't have the OS to run it in the office. So Old versions are a god send.)

I mentioned that saving often reduces crashes/hangs to almost zero, my take on it is that UNDO has something to do with it, when you save it must clean out something. I also find that using undo on a complex instruction will cause a hang.

The one thing that does get me is I have one or two drawings that worked fine albeit complex, but will not open anymore, the only way to open them is to defer updates, the second I update the drawing BANG, all gone.

I ran an excercise of deleting individual views before updating, but I ran out of time before finding the ofending view, so the exercise is currently incomplete...