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briant.markham
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Inventor View dissappeared from the Context Menu

I used to have Inventor View available in the Windows Explorer context menu. Now it is missing, I would love to add it back. It allowed me to spot check hundreds of dwg's very quickly.

Anonymous
in reply to: briant.markham

This is the path to the application:

"C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor XXXX\Bin\InventorView.exe"

 

If it is still installed, you should be able to fire it up maunally. Or, if you right click on your desktop and select "New" then "Shortcut", ypu can just paste the path into the shortcut wizard, for example "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor 2019\Bin\InventorView.exe"

 

Once you have a shortcut, copy it into this location

C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\Autodesk Inventor XXXX

 

XXXX denotes the version for example 2019. 

By default 2020 onwards installs with Inventor Read-only Mode, not Inventor View

briant.markham
in reply to: Anonymous

It's not missing from the start menu or anything like that, it works just fine. It is missing from the "right click" context menu in windows explorer. I guess it is some sort of shell extension, and it is extremely useful for checking a large number of drawings very quickly. I attached a screenshot of what this looks like from another computer below.

I got it fixed, it turned out that those options were only available if the dwg filetype is associated with "AutoCAD DWG Launcher". I had changed it a couple of weeks ago to view some really old dwg's in base AutoCAD. Thanks for your attempted solution.