Problems with AutoCAD from Inventor CD

[dpiengineering]

I have an assembly in AutoCAD that is a 3D solid. I have 2 different installations of AutoCAD on my system, one from the AutoCAD 2002 CD and another from Disk#2 from Inventor. If I open the model in ACAD from the Inventor installation I can not shade the part, the system just hangs on me. If I open it in the regular ACAD 2002 installation (not from the Inventor Disk) it works just fine. The settings are the same throughout the systems, as far as I can tell. What's the deal?

[Anonymous]

Why not just uninstall the one that doesn't work?

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"dpiengineering" wrote in message
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> I have an assembly in AutoCAD that is a 3D solid. I have 2 different
installations of AutoCAD on my system, one from the AutoCAD 2002 CD and
another from Disk#2 from Inventor. If I open the model in ACAD from the
Inventor installation I can not shade the part, the system just hangs on me.
If I open it in the regular ACAD 2002 installation (not from the Inventor
Disk) it works just fine. The settings are the same throughout the systems,
as far as I can tell. What's the deal?
>

[dpiengineering]

The goal is to bring the existing data into ACAD Mechanical, which is on the Inventor Disk. The same happens in ACAD Mechanical.

[Anonymous]

Try uninstalling all versions of autocad on your system and then install
just the Mechanical version on the IV CD. Having different "flavors" and
versions of autocad on your system can cause problems.

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Kevin Nehls


"dpiengineering" wrote in message
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> The goal is to bring the existing data into ACAD Mechanical, which is on
the Inventor Disk. The same happens in ACAD Mechanical.
>

[Anonymous]

You might see if one version is set to hardware acceleration and the other software acceleration for the graphics. If both are hardware verify they are using the same hdi file.

[dpiengineering]

The software settings for these categories are set the same. I guess there is something different between the AutoCAD version sent on the Inventor Disk and the regular version that does not come with Inventor.