Inventor IPN Record Animation Stops Working when SP1 is Installed

[vampelas]

Dear Support,

I have run into an issue when working with IPN files in Inventor Professional 2012, where the Record Animation function no longer works after installing Service Pack 1 and I was hoping you could help.

I was able to record Explosion animations with no problems before, but soon as SP1 was installed I cannot records neither an WMV nor a AVI type video.

For the WMV settings the Record button refuses to stay pressed after you select the Profile, and for the AVI the resulting file is 0 bytes in size.

No matter which settings I choose for wither of those file profiles, the recording produces no results. Also, whether it's a simple assembly or a rather complex one seems to make no difference either, and installing all the latest codecs produced no results either.

The only successful AVI I am able to produce was by installing Camtasia Screen Recorder Software on 30 Day Trail, but this is not really a solution to my issue because it will soon run out.

We have several test machines with the same Specs (below), and I have verified the fact that animation recoding stops working when SP1 is installed.

Model: DELL Precision T3500

CPU: Intel Xeon W3530 @2.80GHz
Mainboard: Dell 09KPNV A00, X58 Chipset
Memory: 4096 MBytes DDR3, PC3-10700 (667 MHz)
Graphics: NVIDIA Quadro FX 580, 512 MBytes

Some help on this issue would be greatly appreciated.

Kind Regards,

Vas

[alessandro.gasso · Accepted solution]

Hi Vas,

Our development is creating an hot fix for this problem that should be available in the next weeks.

In the meantime, I hope you can find useful the workaround from the blog post below.

http://beinginventive.typepad.com/being-inventive/2011/09/unable-to-create-avi-from-ipn-files-after-...

Thanks and regards,

Alessandro

[vampelas]

Hi Allessandro,

Thanks very much for the prompt response and information on this issue.

Kind Regards,

Vas

[jweiss1313]

Alassandro,

This has been an issue since June.  Is the hotfix available yet to fix this problem.  If not, when does Autodesk plan to release the hotfix.

Best regards,

[Curtis_Waguespack]

Hi johnweiss,

I think this hotfix might addresses the issue you're seeing:

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=17804829&linkID=9242019

I hope this helps.
Best of luck to you in all of your Inventor pursuits,
Curtis
http://inventortrenches.blogspot.com

[jweiss1313]

Thanks for your help, but I don't think this fix corrects the problem we are having.  We are just trying to output an avi file from an Inventor presentation file.  We are not driving constraints.  I will install it anyway and let you know if it works.

Thanks

[jweiss1313]

Looks like that hotfix did the trick.  Thank you very much for your help!