Hello,
I'm having the same problem as ozitag. Is there a way to fix this? I'm running Vista Buisness 64-bit. I can't find out how to delete the STP-type in Vista.
Making Inventor as default program for Stepfiles is not an good idea
u can use free step file viewer
http://stpviewer.com/Download/
@GustavStigsohn wrote:Why is it not good to use it as the default program?
reference what Dennis J. posted in this thread earlier.
It's not a good idea.
Mostly because it bypasses the point where you would select the "Options" button during an import. This is a particular problem when importing assemblies, because it takes away your chance to set the save file path for the parts. This causes them to dump into the root of your workspace, potentially making a mess if importing an assembly file with many parts. There are other settings for special situations or problem files that you would miss the chance to use as well.
I had a computer at my previous job on which I had accidentally associated STEP files to Inventor (I used "Open With", and forgot to uncheck the "Always Use . . ." box. If I knew I was opening a single part, it wasn't that big of a deal. Since I transferred a lot of single parts from an old legacy system using STEP, I left the association in place. I just had to remember to go through the File-Open-STEP procedure when I knew I was importing an assembly.
More than once I was importing what I thought was a single part, but turned out to be an assembly. Or I would just simply forget. The results were often messy, dumping (in some cases) several hundred part files into the root of a shared network file structure where our models were stored.
Depending on what you're doing, you might be able to get away with it. In general, I would agree with the others that it's not a good practice.
Thanks for the explanation. I didn't had the problem you described when I used Inventor 2011. Anyways, I will try STPViewer, it will probably do.
Thanks!
Bob,
You are opening yourself up to critics - does it normally take Autodesk 3 yrs to respond to a customer?
Hello,
Having the same issue in Inventor 2016.
OS is Win 7 Pro SP1 64-bit
I've located the Inventor.exe file in the bin folder, checked its properties to ensure it's the 2016 version, but when I select it it appears in the program list as the 2015 version.
What exactly have Autodesk done to screw up the Windows file association so much? This problem has been going on for 7 versions of the software by this thread alone....
Seriously?
Unlike every other piece of software I have ever used then, since Windows 3...?!
I'm sorry, but that's a ridiculous answer.
I had a similar problem once when checking out files from the Vault - it would open the wrong version of Inventor. Autodesk's response was that I shouldn't be doing it that way - I should be checking out from within Inventor.
Pointing out to them that the Vault help file itself described the method I was trying as valid didn't seem to change their mind on this.
Autodesk seem to have an interesting definition of the term 'Product Support' these days. And all for the privilege of thousands of pounds worth of investment in the software and support contracts.
Absolutely disgusting.
"Why expect change?"
Well, you hit the nail on the head there.
And as for 'common knowledge', well I would dispute your rather patronising response there. Besides, my remark about Autodesk Support contradicting their own online help files is still valid in terms of some of the responses I have received, so you'll forgive the slightly aggitated tone of my posts.
It's just that when you pay thousands of pounds for software, and thousands of pounds for support, you don't expect to be brushed-off.
As a suggestion, perhaps the issue of file association and booting the software via double-clicking files might like to be addressed, so that it behaves like the overwhelming majority of every other piece of software created since about 1990.
"The overwhelming majority of every other piece of software" don't simultaneously open hundreds or thousands of linked files and display them all in a graphical form that makes them easily understandable and accessible to the user.
What you're asking may be doable and would be nice to have, but your argument that this particular application should follow the majority just because they are a majority is not logical. The way this particular application operates may make it unable to work that way.
A different example: most applications (including Inventor), when you open a file, display the contents of that file-- but it's not reasonable to demand that every application do so. Remote Desktop Connection, for example, displays the remote desktop that I am connecting to, not the file that I double clicked on. If I want to display/edit the RDC file, I have to access it in a different way. Things work differently in different applications because they are for different purposes.
Sam B
Inventor Professional 2016 Update 2
Vault Basic 2016
Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit, SP1