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Inventor Welding Symbol error

JSklenars2R39D — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 22:40:12 GMT

Our welding symbol style has gone wonky. The 'x' which was a '-' has moved to beside the weld type symbol. If I open an older drawing that was correct as soon as you change something the symbol changes to the error state and will not revert. It is suddenly affecting all our users.

check style settings with drawings that are correct and all setting are the same?

Re: Inventor Welding Symbol error

NigelHay — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 13:20:31 GMT

The symbol works OK for me (Inv2024) & appears as in your red annotation. It must be some problem in your set-up, do you have more than 1 CAD seat, does it affect them all?

Re: Inventor Welding Symbol error

JSklenars2R39D — Thu, 07 Mar 2024 21:09:44 GMT

Hi Nigel

Yes we have 20 seats and it is happening to all of them, seems to have been since a recent update. Our template hasn't been updated for about a year and until just this week it was working fine. Even when I open an old drawing that shows the symbols fine if I add another it goes bad. There seems no way to edit these weld symbols, they are just how Autodesk has made them and that is that. With all the style settings for weld symbol you would have expected there to be a way to change the layout but not from what I can see.

Re: Inventor Welding Symbol error

johnsonshiue — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 01:02:21 GMT

Hi! Please share an example idw/dwg here. It could be a corrupted style.

Many thanks!

Re: Inventor Welding Symbol error

JSklenars2R39D — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 02:10:44 GMT

I had thought it could be a corrupt style so import weld symbol from old drawing but still same.

See attached.

Re: Inventor Welding Symbol error

JSklenars2R39D — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 02:14:29 GMT

File didn't upload

Re: Inventor Welding Symbol error

NigelHay — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 09:08:20 GMT

I can understand the symbols not being editable as they will be based on ASME/ISO standards. Let's hope that johnsonshiue can find some corruption in your files.

Re: Inventor Welding Symbol error

mgrenier2 — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 20:31:51 GMT

My guess would be to check the ribbon in tools/document parameters and the standards tab and try to switch it to ANSI or something

Re: Inventor Welding Symbol error

johnsonshiue — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 20:45:12 GMT

Hi! Many thanks for sharing the file! I took a quick look at the custom Weld symbol style. There isn't anything apparently wrong in terms of the actual settings. It seems strange to me that an ANSI-based style does not contain the dashed line. My limited testing shows only non-ANSI standards like DIN, ISO, or BSI do not contain the dashed line.

Does this behavior just start? How was the style created? Has it been migrated?

Thanks again!

Re: Inventor Welding Symbol error

JSklenars2R39D — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 04:33:55 GMT

Back in the day Inventor use to come with all the standards, so we just migrate every couple of years to the new version of Inventor. The ANSI weld symbol has been fine for the last 10 years and only recently it went bad. ANSI is what we use in Australia so I need to working again. How do I raise this with AUTODESK I could see a way to contact them for this type of issue?

Re: Inventor Welding Symbol error

johnsonshiue — Tue, 12 Mar 2024 23:27:20 GMT

Hi! Please feel free to log on to manage.autodesk.com and there is a link to contact Autodesk Product Support.

Many thanks!

Re: Inventor Welding Symbol error

HubesXB — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 04:51:23 GMT

Hi @JSklenars2R39D and @johnsonshiue , did you ever resolve this issue? We are having the same issue in Inventor Professional 2025.3.2.

Cheers

Re: Inventor Welding Symbol error

hkilic896XF — Tue, 09 Dec 2025 11:29:55 GMT

Hi.

In IDW documents I see that

if I want to add drawing welding symbol to the beads that exist (or visible) on the cross section of view, I can not set "Sync Preset" to the bead, even if bead has a model welding symbol.

Is the functioning like this or am I missing something?