Autodesk Inventor

[#1]

Agreed, couldn't have said it better myself.  Inventor 2011 SP3 was working flawlessly.  We update to 2012, and a slew of bugs riddled throughout the program!  Somewhat understandable for an initially released product.  But when there has only been one service pack released and hardly any issues resloved, something seems fishy.  Is this a sign of things to come from Autodesk?  I don't feel warm and fuzzy about installing 2013.  I guarantee, if we don't start seeing an improvement, we will be finding another product. 

[#2]

We realize this is issues is an inconvenience when opening and saving files in Inventor and I apologize for the frustration it has cased. It is a known issue that we have been investigating and recently addressed for Inventor 2014.

It’s our desire to get it this fix out to everybody as soon as possible as we are investigating ways to do just that. As you are all aware, Inventor is a big product with lots of interdependencies so care must be taken to ensure we don’t introduce additional issues with these changes.  There is still work that needs to be done to see if we can get this out as a Service Pack or Hotfix for the current releases of Inventor.

[#3]

It's good to see you are still working on it.  I might just skip the 2013 version and go straight to 2014 next year.

[#4]

Garin,

Just a few points:

1. The issue is not with saving files... only when they are being opened.

2. I first saw this in 2012 and mentioned it.  Also saw it in 2013, beta 2 and mentioned it. Its not like it "just" came up.

2. This prompt is not related to any other Autodesk product, just Inventor.

4. Also, this is not something "new".  We are asking for something to be but back that was taken out by accident.

Hopefully, it will not take 2 years (thats two releases of Inventor) to get something that is so simple as a prompt (that was working in 2011). I appreciate the work that all of the Inventor team does, but I just cant see why it would take so long to get this fixed.

I remember a few years back, the Inventor team had a program called "Just Do it". This program was centered around the idea that when someone found a problem with Inventor, the problem was investigated and resolved with a hotfix and released ASAP.  I vote to bring that back.

[#5]

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karthur1 wrote:

Hopefully, it will not take 2 years (thats two releases of Inventor) to get something that is so simple as a prompt (that was working in 2011). I appreciate the work that all of the Inventor team does, but I just cant see why it would take so long to get this fixed.

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It's been like this for as long as I can remember. Either you get lucky & get a good release or you get a bad release & then wait a year or two. There is no incentive for them to fix broken releases. They want companies to stay on a yearly subscription so there is a continuous revenue stream. It's a hamster wheel & we're the hamsters.

[#6]

The message was available in the "Application Options/Prompts" tab to set the response and the promt action in Inventor 2011.  I would imediately set it to respond "Yes" and to "Never" prompt.  Ever since we've updated to Inventor 2012, we have to continuously click the "Yes" button everytime an assembly is opened.  Not a killer, but quite annoying.

[#7 · Accepted solution]

I was looking through some of my old threads and wanted to mark this one with its solution:

Update 1 for 2013 fixed it.

[#8]

Fixed it for me too....

MANY! thanks to those responsible for getting this fixed.