AUTODESK!!! REVISION CLOUD!!!! SERIOUSLY!!!!

[jeanchile]

COME ON!!!

Four hours this morning and I STILL don't have a ****ing revision cloud command! UserTools installs, won't register, same crap as a lot of people on this forum.

Leaving for a funeral in twenty minutes... still can't issue these drawings before I leave.

ADD IT TO THE OFFICIALLY SUPPORTED PROGRAM ALREADY!!! WHAT IS THE MATTER WITH YOU!!!!

I love you but come on... how can a company this smart be so stupid sometimes. Maybe you could ask the company who makes AutoCAD how to do it... Oh, wait....

Off to create a sketch and manually draw one....again.

[cbenner]

Breathe.... breathe....  

At least three entries of this on the Idea Station....

... but only a total of 42 Kudos.  Maybe these should be combined, and we need a Kudos campaign to get it moving forward?

[jyager]

It is pretty ridiculous.

I currently save my .dwg, open it in ACAD, make my revisions since I can shape and pline the clouds in a matter of seconds...then save, close and re-open in Inventor to print.

Intuitive.

[jyager]

That and the spellcheck...my engineers always get a laugh out of there not being a native spellcheck.

"Even AutoCAD has that...maybe we should go back to 2D"

[BeKirra]

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@cbenner wrote:

Breathe.... breathe....  

At least three entries of this on the Idea Station....

... but only a total of 42 Kudos.

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IMO Kudos doesn't mean too much as revision cloud is a simple tool to all users.

It is hard to believe that Autodesk has provided this tool in AutoCAD for long time but it can't add or forgets to add it to a later product, like Inventor.

[rhasell]

Hi

To solve your problem, I found that the solution was there all along, in the text file.

1) Open a command prompt (I used admin mode)
2) cd\C:\Users\Public\Documents\Autodesk\Inventor 2015\SDK\UserTools\DrawingTools\bin
3) Type regsvr32 "DrawingTools.dll"

That's it, open Inventor and the addin will be available.

[jyager]

That rev cloud add in tool is offensively bad compared to autocads 20 year old rev cloud tool.

Sent from my iPhone

[rhasell]

You have my vote on that one, its horrible. but it's all we have at the moment. (In Inventor)

Why a tool like this has been left out is beyond me.

Maybe they thought their program was so good, you should never have to markup a drawing ever again.

[jyager]

Or check your spelling.

Sent from my iPhone

[jeanchile]

Okay, I've had a few deep breaths (I have found that when following Chris' advice on this forum that I've never been steered wrong). I went to a funeral which taught me what really is important in life... and that is to make sure this program has a proper revision cloud command before I die.

I recently upgraded to 2015 and I still don't have a working revision cloud. I've tried everything I can find on this forum (new user, command line entries, my own "tried and true" process from 2010) and I cannot get it to load. I have no Add Ins tab, none of the tools loaded in the Add In Manager, nothing. When I try to register the general tools or drawing tools a quick command window flashes on my screen and then nothing happens. I've encountered this before but the fix was always to download and install the 2010 tools from Mark Flayler's (I may be spelling that wrong, sorry) blog and they seemed to work, but that blog page is gone and I'm not sure installing the user tools from 2010 for a 2015 machine is a good idea anyway.

Anybody else have something I can try? I'm going to need a revision cloud again in the future (although I do like the idea of Inventor getting so smart that I'll never need one again... how do we do that AI or something?).

Also, I have gone and given my kudos to every revision cloud post on the Idea Station. I kindly urge everyone here to do the same if they haven't already. It would be nice to see this thing take off like some kind of power-to-the-people-revolt or something (remember occupy wall street? Okay, maybe that's a bad example).

Here are the Idea Station posts, please go vote if you can:

First one is here.

Second one is here.

Third one is here.

I don't know why there is three of them but someone is obviously not following the rules (although admittedly they could make the search on the Idea Station easier... is there an Idea Station for the Idea Station?).

[jyager]

Unfortunately the best option is still opening it up in AutoCAD and doing it there.

[jeanchile]

Short of waiting for AutoCAD to boot up each time and then opening every drawing I need, is there anything else I can try to get the old crappy, non-supported version installed on 2015? It's an acceptable work-around, and the cloud command in AutoCAD is certainly superior, but it is kind of a pain.

[rhasell]

Have you tried the method I mentioned earlier?

After using every other method with limited success, this one worked 100%
of the time for me.

Regards

Reg Hasell

[jeanchile]

I have and no matter what I try and type I get various syntax errors, directory errors, etc. Can you please review your instructions and be very specific and double check exactly what you've typed? I feel like either you've got some errors there and steps maybe aren't thorough enough or I am just plain missing something. Command line modifications are not new to me but I can't seem to make your suggestion work.

[rhasell · Accepted solution]

No worries, I will recheck them.

1- Extract the tools as per normal.

They should extract to their default location. ( Left this out, as you had already done this step)

2) Open a command prompt (I used admin mode)

3) cd\Users\Public\Documents\Autodesk\Inventor 2015\SDK\UserTools\DrawingTools\bin

Apologies, there was a syntax error,(I removed the c:), the object of this step is to change to the directory where the tools were extracted to.

4) Type regsvr32 "DrawingTools.dll"

Type this in with the inverted commas as well.

let me know if it works.

[jeanchile]

Ahhh... there we go. I tried removing the "cd" directory earlier but didn't try the "C:" part. I wasn't sure exactly what we were trying to do there.

So that worked, thank you! I am hesitant to mark your post as the solution though because I don't want anyone to believe I consider this solved . I technically won't think this is "solved" until Autodesk adds a native/supported cloud tool that will do what their AutoCAD tool does. This non-supported one is crude but it will work for now... But HEY AUTODESK, people have been saying that since 2009... just sayin'.

Can everyone who sees this post PLEASE go to the idea station links in my post #10 and give kudos for those ideas? Even if you don't think it's the most important thing for them to be doing it would be nice to see this system work in a sort of peoples revolt kind of situation.

[Anonymous]

I am totaly lost on the fix for this.

step 3 what do I do with this? Do I scroll to it? put it in the command prompt?

I have widows 8 if that make any differance

[rhasell]

Hi.

Responding via email. If I recall the step 3 on this page is a correction
of a typo. Refer to the previous page where the is the regsrv command.

Type that command in at the correct directory location and it will register
the add - in.

[rhasell]

okay, back in the office.

Windows 8 will not make a difference, I performed this on my Windows 8.1 box, without any issues.

There is an executable file, "registerdrawingTools.exe" which an executable batch file which does not work correctly, so we are doing the exact same thing manually.

You need to open the command prompt.

Start, Run, CMD (If the run command is missing, track down "Accessories,Command prompt" It is advisable, to run this with admin privelages.

This is a  basic DOS command line to change directory, from your current directory, to the one we require to execute the command. If we don't do this, the command won't execute correctly.

Now TYPE in the command from Step 3. (This ia a manual process, you must type it in word for word)

press enter.

The command prompt should change to the new directory, if not, then check the syntax and try again.

you can then run the step 4

regsvr32 "DrawingTools.dll"

Type this in with the inverted commas as well.

see screen shot.

[Anonymous]

OK typed it just like shown and it did not work. I went to where the folder was located on my computer and noticed instead of just \documents\ it was actually \public documents\ so I teied that still does not work. Here are the 4 ways I tried it.