From what I understand, Inventor should write to all the registry entries upon closing. So anything that changes while you have the program open will be rectified when you close Inventor. Simimilarly, if something changes, and Inventor crashes (not that it ever will... Right?) your registry settings WON'T be restored, and when you start Inventor next time, it'll may have settings botched, like this project file...
If I'm right, you can check your registry from time to time by clicking Start > Run and entering 'Regedit' and pressing 'OK'. Once in registry editor, navigate to these keys and check the values.
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Autodesk\Inventor\RegistryVersion15.0\System\Preferences\External References\Path File
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Autodesk\Inventor\RegistryVersion15.0\System\Preferences\FileDialog\LastProjectFile
HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-302069814-1549080342-620655208-23595\Software\Autodesk\Inventor\RegistryVersion15.0\System\Preferences\External References\Path File
HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-302069814-1549080342-620655208-23595\Software\Autodesk\Inventor\RegistryVersion15.0\System\Preferences\FileDialog\LastProjectFile
The bits I've crossed out will almost certainly vary on your PCs, so you might have to search for them.
Hope this helps.
Not sure what your getting at, but all mine list the correct Vault project. Still had the problem this morning.
Did you check the registry after finding that the project file had reset to default? I'd be suprised if the registry was correct, but Inventor was wrong.
Cheers
The attached screen shot shows the option that appears to work most of the times, even after a reboot
The only drawback is that when inventor starts, it will start the new from template and create a new file
The other 2 options dont seem to force setting the ipj file
I have also notice Inventor changing the ipj file to some C:\Tem\.......... which I think is the ipj file that Vault commands like copy design create and use
kprom: It's not a solution, it's part of the troublshooting. You don't have to check anything, it's just a suggestion.
mbodnar: I thought the same thing regarding copy design etc, because afaik, Copy design uses something like the apprentice server to carry out the changes which I'm assuming uses a project file just the same as Inventor. However a number of users here reported the problems without ever doing a copy design.
gerhick
I think the apprentice sets this temp ipj file not only when and after using copy design, but also after rename, move, etc
Are you able to share the script you mentioned in your earlier post that might help with forcing the setting of the ipj file thru the registries I assume?
Cheers
Max B
mbodnar - I've attached the script file, but be warned, don't use it if you don't understand it. Save it somewhere save, then right click and select 'edit'. you'll need to add your project file name and path to the top where indicated. Given that we're messing with the registry, the script saves a backup .reg file to your c:\temp location before making changes incase things go bad. I'll be honest, it's quite a crude way of doing it, I'll review it when I can find the time, but I used a slightly more complicated one to set the VBA project as well and do a few other things so it SHOULD work.
The basic steps it runs through are:
Kill Inventor
Backup Registry Keys
Edit Registry
Run Inventor
As with all free stuff, I don't accept any responsibility use at your own risk.
Hope you find it useful, If you have any feedback please let me know.
Hey all. I found a soluton or at least it worked on the two machines that I was seeing this problem on. All I did was go and rename the Default.ipj file temporarily. Then I opened Inventor and it gave me some error message saying that it couldn't find the default.ipj file. Click OK to that. Then I set it to the project file I actually want and close down Inventor. The very next time I open Inventor it goes to that same project file that it is suppose to go to. Then after I have opened and closed Invnetor and it is working correctly I went and changed the Default.ipj back and it still didn't go back to the Default from then on.
Not sure if this has been solved yet as i've not read through the previous 70 odd posts,
but i came across a similar problem earlier today with one of the new users in the office.
solved it by turning off the start up action in settings which had "new from template" selected, "Default.ipj" being the default project file...
hope I'm not repeating whats already been said..
Still having this problem here, after changing the default project. Also I've noticed that you are unable to open directly from Vault explorer after this problem occurs, even after changing the project back to the vault project.
I am getting reports of this too. It's been a while on this post, so either an interim solution is working for some of these posters, or they've grown accustomed to dealing with it. I like the start with ipj solution if it works. Anyone want to report a good result?
I had not experienced this problem for quite a while, but suddenly it started happening again the last couple of days. I haven't tried launching from the IPJ file, because I haven't seen it in a while, but if this new spate keeps up, I might have to try it.
Is your Start-up action turned on. I have not read all post so if it was mention already sorry. But if that is on it will default to the project in that.
My customer is using Vault so he's going to use the shortcut to ipj method. I teach this to my night school students too, to start Inventor with their own project file on their own thumb drive. Works great.
Personally I use too many projects to ever start Inventor without checking which project is running the show. Pretty much every design session starts with "where am I working today?"
Hi Gerrard,
Can you send me the batch file too?
We have this issue also on several machines.
Best regards,
Lambertus
I have a few users that have been experiencing the same problem. My solution was to go to the properties of the Inventor shortcut and change the target to the project file (.ipj). This way you still have the same Inventor shortcut, but it opens from the project file. You can do it both on a desktop shortcut and in the start menu.