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Inventor 2018 - AddInLoadRules customization
I have been struggling with Inventor 2018 to load 2 plugins, pre-loading the program, when I load up inventor now, it blocks my 2 add-ins and then I would manually have to go to add-ins manager and enable them on startup.
For some reason I can't seem to get this working in our pre-captured image file that we deploy from.
I have in previous version been able to modify this from the "AddInLoadRules.xml" as shown in the following guide:
But in the 2018 version it seems this is no longer handled by an .xml file, but by a "FILE" without file-extension, that I can't seem to edit.
Any idea how I can pre-define theese 2 plugins to be auto-loaded, instead of blocked on first time startup?
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The only hand-editable overrides file is the Administrator Overrides. This is located in the Inventor preferences folder, e.g.:
C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor 2018\Preferences\AddInLoadRules.xml
Did you modify this file for the pre-captured image that you deploy from? That is the intended workflow.

Joe S
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I was looking for the same thing. Just for clarification, it is not possible to change an add-ins load behaviour in an inventor that is already installed without using the add-in manager on startup?