Inventor Laptop Install

[mies07]

We are trying to install Inventor on a laptop that we will use both as part of our in-house netwrok and as a standalone machine that we can use on the road. This would include being able to create and place new and existing Content Center parts.
Our previous install worked while we were plugged into our company network just like all our CAD staff's machines. However, when we tried to use Content Center parts while not plugged into network, we get message akin to "Cannot find Content Center"
There must be a way to do this. What we think is the solution is to install as competely standalone and then create a project file that has all the network pointers.
Surely someone out there has encoutnered this need before. Any suggestions, a link to a knowledge base article, etc?
Need to
1. Use as standalone with access to local Content Center when on the road
2. Use as networked Inventor station with access to network Content Center and Vault server when in the office.

Thanks!
Mike Edited by: mIES07 on Apr 21, 2010 8:11 PM

[DouglasLauritsen]

You will want to post this in the Inventor forum.

Douglas Lauritsen, Autodesk Product Support

[bobvdd]

Mike,

I did not find an equivalent post from you yet on the Inventor forum (http://discussion.autodesk.com/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=78).
To help you out without losing to much time, here is some insight on what you might want to do. Use local desktop content when on the road and use ADMS when plugged in the network. This switch can be set in the Application Options on the Content Center tab. One big caveat though: when you create content on the road, you will be creating files on his local drive that are duplicates of files that exist on the server.

But once again, try http://discussion.autodesk.com/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=78 , there are a ton of savvy Inventor users out there that will give you even more valuable advise on Inevntor specific functionality.

Bob
Inventor Product Support Technical Lead

[mies07]

Doug, Bob:
"You will want to post this in the Inventor forum"
"I did not find an equivalent post from you yet on the Inventor forum"
I did post to Inventor General. see:
http://discussion.autodesk.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=6373746䅲

Bob:

"This switch can be set in the Application Options on the Content Center tab"

What switch on what "Content Center Tab" in the Application Option? See attached screen shot of my application options tabs (Inv 2009).

This all begs the question, in that your answer restates the question as an answer "Use local desktop content when on the road and use ADMS when plugged in the network"
This is exactly the question I asked to begin with - how to do this.?

Does local installation of Content Center require local installation of a Virtual Content Center server?

Thanks,
Mike

[bobvdd]

Mike,

Difficult for me to know upfront in which release you are.
The local desktop option does not exist yet in 2009.
You need to upgrade to 2010 or 2011 to get this option.

Bob