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3D PDF Export fails

Anonymous — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 22:19:09 GMT

Hello,

I am having problems with the Export to PDF function. I load one of the Inventor sample models, blower.iam into Inventor 2017, and try to export to 3D PDF, I get a list of errors and no PDF. I am attaching the a screen shot of the version of Inventor I am using, a screen shot of the errors that were displayed and the zipped .iam file.

Regards,

Phil Spreier

Dimension PDF

www.dimensionpdf.com

Re: 3D PDF Export fails

mdavis22569 — Wed, 06 Apr 2016 23:16:18 GMT

eliminate items till you find what the problem file is ...

I know it's not the motor, frame, the sheet metal parts for the housing error'd out when I tried them on their own in the assembly ...

I had an issue earlier today with a revolved' part.... I copied the part sketch to another ipt and it worked fine ...

Re: 3D PDF Export fails

blair — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 06:53:20 GMT

Looks like your have errors in your Blower.IAM file along with an error showing on the ANSI27 item to start with. Eliminate the errors in your model first and then try publishing to 3d PDF.

Re: 3D PDF Export fails

Anonymous — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 16:55:48 GMT

Thanks for the suggestion. The assembly is an Autodesk sample assembly and appears to be missing some fasteners. I went through the assembly and suppressed all the unresolved references. But it still fails even after that. Do you know if there is there a command that will list all the unresolved references? I did it manually by looking at the product tree. I think that I may have missed an uresolved file.

Re: 3D PDF Export fails

mdavis22569 — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 16:59:21 GMT

I crashed with the sheetmetal flanges that are in the blower assembly model ... I tried it in 3 different templates

The frame, outlet, motor etc were all good ..at least for me

I also deleted all of the fasteners/content cent. items as well.

Re: 3D PDF Export fails

Jeff.T — Thu, 07 Apr 2016 19:49:19 GMT

Many Thanks for all the great input, this is a good find.

SM - 002.ipt appears to be the problem part, Therefore a Defect has been Logged.

Re: 3D PDF Export fails

Henry.Huang — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 13:38:29 GMT

This should be a know issue, and here has an artical for it.

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/inventor-products/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Inventor-2017-fails-to-create-a-3D-PDF-for-some-assemblies-and-weldments.html

I will attach your data with this Incident, thank you for your feedback.

Have a nice day.

Re: 3D PDF Export fails

mdavis22569 — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 13:41:48 GMT

I have quite a few revolved parts giving me an issue too.

Re: 3D PDF Export fails

Anonymous — Mon, 11 Apr 2016 13:24:34 GMT

Hello,

I have the same problem with the Export to PDF function. Can you help me please?

Thank you for any advice.

Milan Nosil

Re: 3D PDF Export fails

mcgyvr — Mon, 11 Apr 2016 13:52:35 GMT

And there goes my excitement about 3D PDF's in 2017...

Milan's part is about as simple as it could be and "FAIL"

Re: 3D PDF Export fails

karthur1 — Tue, 12 Apr 2016 01:46:04 GMT

@mcgyvr wrote:

And there goes my excitement about 3D PDF's in 2017...

Thats sad Maybe it will be fixed with 2017 SP1.

Re: 3D PDF Export fails

alun001 — Thu, 21 Apr 2016 12:44:59 GMT

I agree mcgyvr,

I was excited too, as some of our customers/competitors are now providing 3D PDFs.

I tried it on one of my assemblies first and it failed. So I thought I'd check it using some of Autodesk's samples. And of course these failed also.

So once again we get the stock answer:

Status: This incident is currently being investigated for a possible cause and resolution

I understand that this is a new release, but there were already issues with old releases which haven't been resolved and now more items that are lauded in the press but don't actually work.

Re: 3D PDF Export fails

karthur1 — Thu, 28 Apr 2016 18:01:21 GMT

I was hopeing they would have this fixed before I loaded 2017, but I don't see any updates for 2017. I opened an assembly and tried to export to 3D PDF. It failed, but with a different message than what the OP posted. My message is "The parameter is incorrect".

Kirk

Re: 3D PDF Export fails

Curtis_W — Fri, 06 May 2016 14:22:12 GMT

Is there a more proper method of reporting these issues?

We just kicked the tires on this also, and hit an error first thing. Very disappointing.

Re: 3D PDF Export fails

Jeff.T — Fri, 06 May 2016 14:33:50 GMT

Hello Curtis;

Would it be possible for you to share the DATA-Set that caused this error?

Many Thnx

Jeff

Re: 3D PDF Export fails

Curtis_W — Fri, 06 May 2016 15:05:15 GMT

Hi Jeff.T,

Sure, can you provide an FTP site address?

Thanks!

(note we're currently doing a process of elimination on the assembly to see if

we can pin point the file that is the issue, first thing we took out was the weldments)

Edit:

Attached is one of the problem files, but there is still something with the assembly that we didn't identify. So the FTP site request is still requested.

Re: 3D PDF Export fails

Jeff.T — Fri, 06 May 2016 15:06:34 GMT

Hello Curtis;

Would it be possible for you to ZIP the assembly and email to me?

jeff.thompson@autodesk.com

Jeff

Re: 3D PDF Export fails

Curtis_W — Fri, 06 May 2016 16:35:33 GMT

Just a quick update, Jeff was able to produce the 3D PDF file from our dataset without issue using what I assume is an internal build, so I would guess that a hottfix or update is in the works, but I have no knowledge of an specifics.

I'm guessing this link will be updated when something is released:

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/inventor-products/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Inventor-2017-fails-to-create-a-3D-PDF-for-some-assemblies-and-weldments.html?_ga=1.96842719.1178860741.1456947047

Re: 3D PDF Export fails

ermolov-s — Wed, 11 May 2016 08:12:09 GMT

And another error message when exporting to 3d pdf...

Re: 3D PDF Export fails

Anonymous — Wed, 11 May 2016 18:45:34 GMT

Here is a blog post that I wrote about this. Sorry to see that others are seeing the same type of results...

http://bit.ly/1rbDEO4