Autodesk Inventor Professional 2023.1 Update : Available Today!

[dan_szymanski]

On behalf of the Inventor Product Team, I am pleased announce the availability of the Autodesk Inventor Professional 2023.1 Update. Please check your Autodesk Account or the Autodesk Desktop App to download and install your update.

Our point release updates include fixes for issues, however also include customer driven enhancements. Be sure to check out the What's New  content and Release Notes for more details. We hope you benefit from the 40+ productivity improvements the 2023.1 update includes. We feel there is a little something for everyone.

Finest regards,
Dan

[Niels__J]

Is 23.0.1 included in 23.1 or do I have to install both?

[johnsonshiue]

Hi Niels,

Inventor 2023.1 includes enhancements, all prior fixes, and other fixes. You don't need to install 2023.0.1 before installing 2023.1. But, if you already have 2023.0.1 installed, it is perfectly fine to install 2023.1 on top of it also.

Many thanks!

[pcrawley]

Any update on the apparent Home Screen issue?  Running without it seems to cure the high-CPU usage issue, but makes Inventor harder to use as a result.  Changing Projects presented me with a challenge since the "Projects" button has gone (along with the whole "Get Started" Ribbon) - lucky it's in the Quick Assess toolbar!

[Splinter65]

You can also open projects from the manage item in the file menu. It isn't great but unless you change projects often isn't costing much time, once you find it that is. At least it isn't for me.

[kmiller]

Any update on how to get the data privacy dialog to stop popping up all the time?  It even occasionally comes up when running task scheduler on files.  It really shouldn't show up at all.  Changing the privacy/data collection settings didn't help as you cannot fully turn all of them off.  Also noticed this after installing .1 update.  It also affects previous (2022.1 for sure) versions of inventor.

[SER4]

I am also noticing several instances of "CefSharp.BrowserSubprocess.exe" from C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor 2023\Bin using a bunch (~16% CPU on a 6x2=12 logical processor).

I can kill the offending process, and everything seems to be fine so far.

**CORRECTION: It appears this is related to the Home screen--it kinda turns into a white blank screen.  Simple fix is to start up the Home screen again.

[kimK7B54]

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@johnsonshiue wrote:

Hi Steve,

As I replied to you on the Feedback email, we are not aware of an issue like this. You mentioned that uninstalling 2023.1 helped resolve the fan noise issue. If possible, please make sure all critical Windows updates are installed and the graphics driver is updated. Also, try installing 2023.1 again. Does the fan noise come back?

One more test to try. Go to Tools -> App Options -> General -> uncheck "Show Home on startup." Does it help 2023.1?

Many thanks!

I've also been listening to annoying fan noise due to high CPU usage.  The culprit appears to be this process, when ended via taskmanager, CPU usage dropped off to a normal level.  Not clear what this process is for, or if it's needed for Inventor to operate.  This happened after installing 2023.1.1 update yesterday (well, it looks like it killed the home tab screen.)

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[GJackson-GMC]

Hi All

Experiencing this issue on both a HP Z4 workstation running windows 10 and a Dell 7760 on windows 11, The Windows 11 recent update 22H2 made no difference.

Starts off ok then CPU usage increases over a period of time. After a few hours this is consuming a considerable amount of the CPU. Turning off the home screen from staring up resolves the issue as proposed in an earlier post, but it's not really a solution.

I spoke with some friends who initially advised they hadn't noticed any issues, however once they investigated the problem was present. They just had not noticed any fan noise due to being in a busy office.

This CefSharp process high CPU issue has been present for some time now, with very little feedback as to a solution.  Autodesk can you advise any time scale for a fix? Or at lease acknowledge this has been registered as a bug. 

[pcrawley]

I see the same thing.  Roughly 10 minutes after starting work in Inventor with the Home Screen running, the CefSharp.BrowserSubprocess.exe starts up.  (This morning I was doing nothing other than messing with sketch in a part file - nothing else was open in Inventor and no other Windows apps either.)  Kill the process and the Home screen dies - but otherwise Inventor carries on fine.  I just live without the Home Screen - which is a pity because I liked it.

There are other posts relating to CefSharp.BrowserSubprocess.exe, so it was a bit surprising to read a denial of the issue.  See:

1. Re: CefSharp.BrowserSubprocess.exe constant CPU Usage in 2023.1 update - Autodesk Community - Invent...
2. Re: Inventor My Home 2022 vs 2023 and other discussion - Page 3 - Autodesk Community - Inventor

Tracked as INVGEN-63695

I'd love to see this issue solved and be able to use the Home Screen again after all the work that has gone into fixing it.

[johnsonshiue]

Hi! If I recall correctly, the issue should be addressed in the coming 2023.2 update. A testable patch is available on Inventor Feedback Community (https://autode.sk/InventorBeta). You may want to try it out.
Please note that the testable patch isn't the final one. When the official 2023.2 update becomes available, the testable patch needs to be uninstalled and the official 2023.2 update needs to be installed.
Many thanks!

[GJackson-GMC]

Thanks for the update. Much appreciated

[kimK7B54]

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@johnsonshiue wrote:

Hi! If I recall correctly, the issue should be addressed in the coming 2023.2 update. A testable patch is available on Inventor Feedback Community (https://autode.sk/InventorBeta). You may want to try it out.
Please note that the testable patch isn't the final one. When the official 2023.2 update becomes available, the testable patch needs to be uninstalled and the official 2023.2 update needs to be installed.
Many thanks!

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I have installed the Beta 2023.2 update and can confirm this has NOT been addressed. 

[GJackson-GMC]

2023.2 Released & bug has not been addressed, disappointing result. How long now until next release? 

[johnsonshiue]

Hi Folks,

I have checked with the project team. I am sorry it was my misunderstanding assuming that the issue was resolved on 2023.2. Indeed, the issue has not been fixed yet. I will check with the team and report back the findings.

Many thanks!

[johnsonshiue]

Hi! Just to provide some update, the issue was reported as INVGEN-63695. It has been actively investigated. So far we don't have a solution yet.

Many thanks!

[jeffg28CLY]

This comment isn't about 2023.1, but I'm also seeing something very similar to this in 2022.4.

Just one instance of Inventor would spawn maybe 4 or 5 processes of cefsharp.browsersubprocess.exe.

Those processes themselves weren't causing much CPU usage, but with them running, the main inventor.exe process does.

So with two instances of Inventor already open, I disabled "Show Home screen on startup" in the settings, and opened a new instance.

The two instances that were already open are at 20-22% CPU usage each (inventor.exe), even with zero tabs/files open.

The instance that was opened with the Home screen disabled is at <2% CPU, and much less RAM.

Attached: Task Manager for three Inventor processes. None of them have any files or tabs open. But only one of them was opened after the Home screen and cefsharp.browsersubprocess were disabled.

I also renamed cefsharp.browsersubprocess.exe to fully prevent it from loading. Though now when I click the Home icon, Inventor immediately crashes.

Whatever this browser thing in Inventor is, it uses an absurd amount of system resources.