Mold Assembly causes Inv to crash under Win8

[Anonymous]

GDay All,

When trying to create a Mold Assembly whilst running Inventor 2013 Pro under Windows 8, the ribbon does not appear except for the tab titles and any attempt to expand the ribbon causes Inventor to crash.

Has anyone else experienced this?

[blair]

You are using a unsupported O/S for IV2013. Search this forum for other issues concerning Windows 8.

Check here: http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=19048377&linkID=9240617

[Anonymous]

Blair, you are quite correct in regards to Windows 8 being unsupported, but at some point it will be supported. Don't you think it would be nice to know what problems need to be fixed when that time comes?

My posting is more of a heads-up than anything else and yes I am aware of the other problems people are experiencing when running Inventor under Windows 8.

Personally, I don't like Windows 8 very much and that's why I only run it in a VM. There has been some improvements in some areas, but overall it's geared towards touch screen devices and is not entirely suited to the more traditional desktop machines.

I suppose that we should get used to the touch screen environment though, because in the not too distant future, that is probably all we will have. Desktops as we know them today will disappear soon, Intel already has plans in that direction at least.