topic Re: Not able to install SDK in Inventor Programming Forum

Not able to install SDK

Anonymous — Tue, 03 Dec 2013 20:11:10 GMT

Hi,

I am new to API of Inventor. i tried installing DeveloperTools.msi loated at

C:\Users\Public\Documents\Autodesk\Inventor 2014\SDK

It says "Could not find any version of microsoft visual studio."

However, I have Microsoft Visual Studio Express 2013 installed.

Please help.

Also, is installing the SDK necessary to develop add-ins?

Regards,

Saurav Agarwal

Re: Not able to install SDK

xiaodong_liang — Wed, 04 Dec 2013 03:50:56 GMT

Hi,

The Inventor wizards 2014 does not support VS2013 yet. because VS2013 was just released in November this year.

In addition, we don’t allow users to install the SDK msi if there is not a supported VS was installed. Users should have at least one of the supported VS products installed on their machines before they can use DeveloperTools.

Could you switch to use VS2012 Express version currently?

Re: Not able to install SDK

Anonymous — Wed, 04 Dec 2013 08:48:21 GMT

I installed visual studio 2010 and was able to install developertools thereafter.

Thanks

Re: Not able to install SDK

miechh — Thu, 16 Jan 2014 08:59:25 GMT

When do you expect Visual Studio (Express) 2013 to be supported by the SDK of Inventor? I'd really have a look at the examples that I can't view right now.

Re: Not able to install SDK

YuhanZhang — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 08:56:57 GMT

To support the VS2013 for Inventor Wizards is in our consideration now. But you said you want to view examples do you mean to open the samples in developer tools with VS Express 2013?

Re: Not able to install SDK

YuhanZhang — Mon, 20 Jan 2014 02:54:29 GMT

I checked with our developer team that for the next release Inventoris based on VS2012, that means VS2013 may have newer components that the next release won't support so we will not support the VS2013 in SDK (Inventor Wizards). You can use the VS2012 for your addin creation.

Re: Not able to install SDK

Anonymous — Tue, 10 Feb 2015 12:46:43 GMT

Hi,

i'm having the same issue at the moment. When i try to install the "DeveloperTools.msi" i get "Could not find any version of Microsoft Visual Studio.

i'm currently using:

Inventor 2013

Visual Studio Express 2010

Re: Not able to install SDK

awatt — Thu, 02 Apr 2015 12:44:18 GMT

Any estimate on when Inventor 2015 will support VS 2013?

Re: Not able to install SDK

Anonymous — Wed, 26 Aug 2015 20:05:46 GMT

Does Inventor 2013 DeveloperTools supporty Microsoft Visual Studio Professional 2012 ?

Thanks,

Re: Not able to install SDK

YuhanZhang — Fri, 28 Aug 2015 07:45:48 GMT

Inventor 2013 Wizards does not support VS2012, it supports VS 2005, 2008 and 2010.

Re: Not able to install SDK

Zimmerle — Wed, 28 Oct 2015 18:45:44 GMT

I have PDSU 2015 (inventor 2015) and would like to do some dev. work. Which version of VS is the most recent one supprted with IV 2015?

TIA,

Zimmerle

Re: Not able to install SDK

awatt — Wed, 28 Oct 2015 18:48:39 GMT

I have successfully used Express 2012 for Inventor 2015.

Re: Not able to install SDK

Zimmerle — Wed, 28 Oct 2015 19:26:42 GMT

VS 2012 Experss is not available for download any more.

Options ? ? ? ? ?

Re: Not able to install SDK

awatt — Wed, 28 Oct 2015 19:30:04 GMT

Try this:

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=34673

Re: Not able to install SDK

Anonymous — Thu, 29 Oct 2015 02:09:53 GMT

I successfully installed SDk with VS2012 professional and Inventor 2016 professional.

Re: Not able to install SDK

Zimmerle — Thu, 29 Oct 2015 23:14:39 GMT

OK, so I have installed VS2008 and I still have errors trying to install Inventor's DEv tools. It almost finishes and then, BAM! cannot run the script and uninstalls what has already been processed.

Next?

Re: Not able to install SDK

YuhanZhang — Fri, 30 Oct 2015 02:18:20 GMT

If you have the KB3072630 installed on your machine, you will encounter the failure, and a workaround for now is to disable the KB3072630 first and install the SDK then enable the KB3072630 again. You can find the workaround I posted in below post:

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/inventor-customization/iv-2016-sdk-install-error-serious-error-installing/td-p/5769286/page/2

Hope this helps.

Re: Not able to install SDK

Anonymous — Fri, 19 Feb 2016 08:37:21 GMT

May I know what are the newest version of VS to work with Inventor 2016 Professional?

Re: Not able to install SDK

YuhanZhang — Tue, 23 Feb 2016 06:53:36 GMT

The Inventor 2016 is based on VS2012. Hope this helps.

Re: Not able to install SDK

Anonymous — Wed, 29 Jun 2016 17:50:15 GMT

Any to be honest, i have Visual Studio 2015 Automating Inventor 2017.

Getting the SDK to install is the difficult part. Install Visual studio 2012 (or 2010) and install it. If it says failed at any point, dont press ok.

Copy the extracted files from the folder location of the installer elsewhere then click ok.

Within those files, the Zip file containing the Visual studio template will exist.

You can also add a "StartAction" to the .vbproj file so when debugging, inventor will Launch after building the DLL.

I have attached the VS11 file from the Inventor 2016 SDK. It should work fine on older versions.

PS: Sorry to bump up an old thread!