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Migrate from 2010 to 2015

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brent_e_barbour
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Migrate from 2010 to 2015

I’m migrating Inventor data from Vault 2010 to 2015. Apparently you can only migrate up to two versions behind. So, I obtained ADMS 2012 and 2014 and went through the tedious process of migrating from 2010 to 2012 to 2014 to 2015. Then I realized the template files weren’t included in the vault database. Is it possible to reliably migrate individual Inventor files directly from 2010 to 2015 or is there a utility I can obtain to help me or do I need to add those files to the 2010 Vault and start the migration process of the entire database all over again?

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Message 2 of 9

You can migrate individual files by opening them in a particular version of Inventor and saving them. You'll note that this is the recommended process in the help files. 

 

http://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/inventor-products/troubleshooting/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/201...

 

Autodesk Inventor is only supported and tested 3 releases back. Vault is different story. You can find this info in the Migration FAQ's.

 

http://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/inventor-products/troubleshooting/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/201...

 

You don't want to jump more than three versions back (e.g. 2010 to 2013 and 2013 to 2015 is okay). Do you have the required versions of Inventor installed so you may access them?

 

You can also use the Task Scheduler to do this. Check out the blog post by Jonathan Landeros, below. 

 

http://www.inventortales.com/2013/05/that-time-of-year-migrating-templates.html

 

The hard part is that you would, ideally, have the material libraries, styles (sheet metal, drawings), and the project files set up correctly before migrating the files to avoid any issues if your template files are utilizing these. These are things you may be able to sort out post migration, though.

 

There is also a tool called the Drawing Resource Transfer Wizard that may help you transfer styles between drawing files. Check out another helpful blog post by Jonathan Landeros, below. 

 

http://www.inventortales.com/2010/09/its-automagic-drawing-resourse-transfer.html

 

Whatever you do, don't forget to make back-ups! Let me know if this helps or if you have any other questions.

 

Thanks,

 

 




Nathan Chandler
Principal Specialist
Message 3 of 9
SBix26
in reply to: innovatenate

I have had no trouble opening/migrating version 6 (from ~2003) files in Inventor 2015 (version 19).  What is the suspected problem with migrating more than three versions?

Sam B
Inventor 2012 Certified Professional

Inventor Professional 2015 SP1
Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit, SP1
HP EliteBook 8770w; 8 GB RAM; Core™ i7-3720QM 2.60 GHz; Quadro K4000M

Message 4 of 9
Lancasterm
in reply to: SBix26

When you are migrating Vault data you have to make sure the (SQL) database is updated in steps to ensure its in the correct format.   For Inventor files it doesn't matter the jump/migration.

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SBix26
in reply to: Lancasterm

Ah, that explains it.  We don't use Vault, so we don't have that headache.  But the link in Nate's post doesn't mention anything about Vault either, but still says that you have to do it in steps, and that is certainly not my experience.  The further back you are migrating from, the more cleanup there is to do because of style changes, design views, etc., but it still works.

Sam B
Inventor 2012 Certified Professional

Inventor Professional 2015 SP1
Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit, SP1
HP EliteBook 8770w; 8 GB RAM; Core™ i7-3720QM 2.60 GHz; Quadro K4000M

Message 6 of 9
Lancasterm
in reply to: SBix26

Sbixler

 

Yeah but what Nate is pointing out is the perferred method when migrating Inventor data.   Making a big jump will cause more work just as you indicated.

 

Regards

 

Message 7 of 9
SBix26
in reply to: Lancasterm

Well, I'd say that digging up a bunch of old Inventor versions to install (if they would even work on Win 7) would be a lot of work, too!  Let's see: v6 to v9 to 2008 to 2011 to 2014 to 2015, cleaning up each one along the way; or, v6 to 2015 and clean up.  That's a no-brainer for me.

 

We can't justify the effort to migrate all of our old projects with each release-- there's too much data, and the vast majority of them will never be touched again.  We migrate as needed when borrowing from an old project, or re-working one.  And then there's the quality of our modeling practices from twelve years ago when we first started into 3D... ugh.

Sam B
Inventor 2012 Certified Professional

Inventor Professional 2015 SP1
Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit, SP1
HP EliteBook 8770w; 8 GB RAM; Core™ i7-3720QM 2.60 GHz; Quadro K4000M

Message 8 of 9

We have version 2010.  Then in spite of my concerns, my boss didn’t see the point of continuing to pay the high subscription fees every year and I couldn’t convince him otherwise. I finally convinced him to upgrade us to 2015 when our IT department made it mandatory to upgrade our OS to Windows 7. Now I get to deal with the headache of upgrading us from 5 versions ago. I don’t have any versions in between.

Message 9 of 9
SBix26
in reply to: brent_e_barbour

The only significant pain I can see in going from 2010 to 2015 is the change from color & material styles to appearance and material libraries (happened in Inventor 2013).  I don't have links immediately at hand for helpful documents, but a search of the forum should find those.  It's not a simple change, but everyone who started using Inventor before 2013 has had to make the transition.  I believe it's easier now than it was in 2013.

Sam B
Inventor 2012 Certified Professional

Inventor Professional 2015 SP1
Windows 7 Enterprise 64-bit, SP1
HP EliteBook 8770w; 8 GB RAM; Core™ i7-3720QM 2.60 GHz; Quadro K4000M

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