Not able to create a wire or harness

[sheilon]

I am runnign Inventor Pro 2015 and would like to create wires. I tried to follow the tutorials, however, very quickly determined that there seems to be something wrong.

I cannot find ways to insert pins, or create wires at all.

Here are some screenshots that show how there are no enabled ways to use the Cable & Harness module.

The module/addin is loaded as seen here:

I'm going mad looking for a solution. Do I need to reinstall anything?

Can someone please help?

[mcgyvr]

Try a repair install on Inventor.

Have you tried it with a different/new simple part?

Have you tried logging in as a different user?

Are you on support/subscription? If so have you submitted a trouble ticket?

[sheilon]

Try a repair install on Inventor.

I thought about it, but wanted that to be last resort. Or should that be the first step? 

Have you tried it with a different/new simple part?

Yes I did, no success.

Have you tried logging in as a different user?

No I have not, I don't even know how to do that.

Are you on support/subscription? If so have you submitted a trouble ticket?

I don't have support. Is there any other way to contact Autodesk?

[mcgyvr]

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@sheilon wrote:

Try a repair install on Inventor.

I thought about it, but wanted that to be last resort. Or should that be the first step? 

Have you tried it with a different/new simple part?

Yes I did, no success.

Have you tried logging in as a different user?

No I have not, I don't even know how to do that.

Are you on support/subscription? If so have you submitted a trouble ticket?

I don't have support. Is there any other way to contact Autodesk?

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I would try a repair and even a clean/complete removal and reinstall if the repair didn't work. (Personally I think that should be your first step)

As for contacting Autodesk without support.. No.. gotta pay to play :).. But Autodesk employees do post on here fairly often and might have some other suggestions.

[mcgyvr]

Try this..

http://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/inventor-products/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticl...

[sheilon]

Uninstalled the whole Inventor package.

Re-installed.

Same behavior... 😞

[sheilon]

Last week I had the same thought:

What if I changed something and by accident disabled something. I found the same link.

I tried today after the fresh new install. 

Still nothing!  

[JDMather]

Just for fun, can you attach the file here?

[blair]

I beleive that in 2015 it moved to the Manage tab to author your pins:

[sheilon]

Here is the file, it is the standard folder that comes with Illustrator.

I use the Enclosure_assembly.iam

I don't know if this is helpful, but Autodesk offers as a tutorial download for Inventor Pro2015 even though it installs as:
C:\Users\Public\Documents\Autodesk\Inventor LT 2014\inventor_2015_routed_systems\tutorial files

[sheilon]

Yes, adding a connector should be where you described, but this is what I see:

My Add connector is grayed out and there is no message saying why.

[blair]

Location looks the same as mine, I might change it to unloaded, exit out of Inventor, do a system reboot, open Inventor and then change the setting to Auto-Load. Close Inventor, restart Inventor and see if it solves the problem. Also make sure you are current on all SP's and Updates. I have seen times when Inventor is not closed properly, no all the settings match up with the Windows Registry. If this doesn't work, then a full un-install and re-install would be in order. Make sure that you have an Administrative level and the UAC slider is set to it's lowest position and any Anti-Virus software is disabled for the install.

[sheilon]

I did follow the steps. Turned autoload off, and unloaded Add-In.

• Restarted computer
• Set as Autostart
• Restarted Inventor

Sadly the behavior is still continues. 😞

Also, yesterday I uninstalled Inventor and reinstalled from the ground up.

I must say that something you said struck a chord though: I did experience some crashes in Inventor in the past that required me to kill the process.

Any other thoughts on the debugging? Do any of you know if there is a error log or some type of watch window to see debug messages, assertions, etc. for Inventor?

The really sad thing is that from all the modules this is THE one I need the most...

Here is another interesting fact:

When I open the the sample file with the connector pins, all buttons related to Pins are grayed out.

As soon as I right click a pin in the tree the Properties pin becomes available? (not the other ones like Add pin, those remain grayed out)

Is this a hint or just a coincidence?

[blair]

Do you have any 3rd party add-ins running in Inventor?

Are you running with Admin Privileges?

The Debug is really only good for ADSK.

[sheilon]

I am not running any custom sofware or addins.

And I am running as an administrator.

I wonder what steps could I take to troubleshoot and try to find the root cause?

Ideas?