Inventor 10 Network version crashes when saving file changes

[CLW3]

Hi,

I'm having a problem with the files saved from Inventor, regardless of type. I have no problem saving new files or opening files, however, any time I try and save changes to a file, inventor crashes. Also if I try and move a file, windowes explorere gets stuck at "descovering items." Renaming a file crahses explorer. 

One of the files is attached.

Any insight to this problem would be apreceated.

Thanks,

CLW3

[Cadmanto]

Welcome to the forum.

What are your system specs?

Is anyone else in your department having this issue?

Anything change recently or has this always happened?

Are these imported files or did someone else create them or did you create them from the start.

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[CLW3]

Thanks for the welcome.

Windows 7 32-bit

Intel Core i3-2120 @3.30 Ghz

4.00 gb ram, 3.17 usable

Intel hd graphics family aprox total memory: 1428 MB.

I am the only one in my department using the software, as far as I know no one else in the company is having the same issues. This has always happened. I am using a new account on this pc and we rolled back to the first time the program was installed with no change.

The problem persists if they are imported AutoCAD files, large assembly files, or simple ipt cubes.

[sam_m]

Inventor 10 or 2010?

[CLW3]

"Autodesk Inventor 10"

[Cadmanto]

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@CLW3 wrote: 

I am using a new account on this pc and we rolled back to the first time the program was installed with no change.

The problem persists if they are imported AutoCAD files, large assembly files, or simple ipt cubes.

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If I read what you are saying correctly, this happens no matter what you create in Inventor and try saving.

What I don't quite understand is what I quoted from you above.  Are you saying there you rolled back from a newer version of Inventor to SP 0.0 of 2010?  Do you have the latest version by any chance?

Also, while your memory at 4.0 GB will surfice, I would definitely bump that up to nothing less then 8 GB.

One more thing, how often do you reboot your system?

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[CLW3]

Yep, that’s the problem

The entire user account was rolled back using windows backup. I'm not sure if it is the latest version. The network admin installed it, couldn't figure out this error and sent me to the forums.

I reboot once a day.

[Cadmanto]

Well, if you are talking about Inventor 10 that is an 8 year old product.  You can tell what version you are running and the service pack by clicking the "?" at the top right of the screen and selecting

If you truly are running Inventor 10 and not 2010, I would look into majorly upgrading and see if that solves this issue.

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[CLW3]

I have version 211mrelease 10 from 03/18/2005.

From what I can remember, the newer versions wouldn't install on my machine. I am also using AutoCad Mechanical 2006.

[sam_m]

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@Cadmanto wrote:

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@CLW3 wrote: 

I am using a new account on this pc and we rolled back to the first time the program was installed with no change.

The problem persists if they are imported AutoCAD files, large assembly files, or simple ipt cubes.

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If I read what you are saying correctly, this happens no matter what you create in Inventor and try saving.

What I don't quite understand is what I quoted from you above.  Are you saying there you rolled back from a newer version of Inventor to SP 0.0 of 2010?  Do you have the latest version by any chance?

Also, while your memory at 4.0 GB will surfice, I would definitely bump that up to nothing less then 8 GB.

One more thing, how often do you reboot your system?

If this solved your issue please mark this posting "Accept as Solution".

Or if you like something that was said and it was helpful, Kudos are appreciated. Thanks!!!! 

     

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using 32 bit windows he's limited to 4gb - upgrading to 8gb ram would be useless.

32bit will only let Inventor use 2gb as standard, but using the 3gb switch you can allow it to use up to 3gb (at the expense of reducing Windows and its drivers from 2gb to only 1gb, which can cause stability issues) - research the 3gb switch, if you want to explore this.

Inventor 10 came out in 2005 - it's nearly 10 years old.  it was programmed before win7 was released (2009) and the 1st version of Inventor supported for use with Win7 is 2010.

So... if you are on 10 (not 2010) then you will need to be running xp.

[sam_m]

If you are planning to use Inventor for any "decent" work then you really need a new pc too...

32bit windows

4gb ram (but only 3.2gb useable - possibly mobo limited)

1.5gb ram shared by graphics card...

so, you only have 3.2-1.5=1.7gb ram for windows and any programs...  This is realistically WAY too small to be any good for anything more than a few simple parts.

Bottom line, to fix your problem you'll need to either:

1) stay on win7 but upgrade Inventor (and probably need some new hardware)

2) remove Win7 and install XP (ideally 64bit XP) and try Inventor 10 with that.

[Cadmanto]

Sam,

Fair point about the memory.  I remember now that you mention it.

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[CLW3]

Thanks a lot for the advice, yeah those look like my options to fix it. I can limp on right now, it makes a copy of what I'm working on when it save-crashes and I can work with it by jumping through some hoops.

Thanks again.

[Martin_Goodland]

Inventor 10 is only 32bit, Inventor 2009 was the first full 64bit release though I seem to remeber 2008 could use upto 4Gb of address space if you installed it on XP64 or Vista64.

If you are going to stay with Inventor 10 I would just use 32bit XP.

Autodesk Inventor Series 10 System Requirements
Includes Autodesk® Vault client

Part and assembly design (less than 1,000 parts)

• Intel® Pentium® 4, Intel Xeon™, or AMD Athlon™ processor, 2GHz or higher
• 1 GB or more RAM
• 3.5 GB free disk space
• 128 MB OpenGL-capable graphics card

Autodesk Inventor Series 10 Preferred System Requirements
Includes Autodesk Vault client

Large assembly design (more than 1,000 parts)

• Intel Pentium 4, Intel Xeon, or AMD Opteron™ processor, 3 GHz or higher
• 3 GB or more RAM
• 3.5 GB free disk space
• 128 MB or more OpenGL-capable workstation class graphics card

Autodesk Inventor Series 10 Supported Operating Systems

Microsoft® Windows® XP Professional (SP1 and SP2)
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional (SP4)

[blair]

Inventor 10 will only run on Windows XP, Inventor 2009 sp2 was the first version to officially support Windows Visa. I can't remember the official release number to be Windows7 compliant (IV2011 seems to ring a bell).

[sam_m]

Martin - good point.  I was wondering whether 64 bit xp would still address more than 4gb ram, so more ram could be added to the system (considering the shared memory with the gpu) and have it install as a 32bit application within the 64bit OS.  But, thinking about it, I'm guessing it wouldn't even install?  usually you need the 64bit Inventor for the 64bit OS.

So... yeah, stick with 32 bit XP.  and, considering the system requirements, I'd probably reduce the memory allocated to the gpu (from 1.5gig to 500meg?) to free more for Inventor.

blair - I thought AD added win7 support with one of Iv2010's service patches, possibly even the first one.