Inventor tutorial - No workspace in 'place component'

[freddie66NFG]

Hi there,
I'm trying to go through the tutorials in Inventor Pro 2020. In number 3 'Getting started with assemblies', the tutorial requires you to add a part called SWZ-W-104003.ipt with 'place component'.

The video walkthrough shows the part available in the directory 'workspace' after the tutor clicks 'place component'. However when I click place component, there is no workspace, only 'libraries' and 'content center files'. 

Below are screenshots. In the second shot (tutor's video) I've circled the 'workspace' directory to highlight what is missing from my screen! Is my tutorial broken or is there a box unchecked somewhere? Greatly appreciate the help, the tutorial cannot be completed without this step!

[johnsonshiue]

Hi! I believe you need to activate the proper Project. In the tutorial files, there should be an ipj file. Close all Inventor files -> Get Started -> Project -> find it and activate it.

Many thanks!

[freddie66NFG]

Hi John, thank you for the response!

I don't have any projects in the Projects window to activate. There are only two projects showing, 'Default', and 'Inventor Electrical Project'. Default is ticked by, err, default! 

I've tried going into 'browse' at the bottom, and searching 'tutorial' in the Autodesk folders which turns up nothing. I've also searched by selecting 'all file types', and looked for anything containing the word tutorial, and found some folders under 'guided tutorial plugin'. None of the files inside these folders are project files, there are some files called 'Tutorial File', of filetype Autodesk Inventor Part, though these are recognisably parts from the inventor tutorials.

The screenshot below is the Projects window, the redacted part is a company projects folder.

Thank you again for any help! 

[johnsonshiue]

Hi! I think I know where the problem is. I guess you started the tutorial while you already had another file opened (Default project is active). Tutorial Add-In was not able to switch the project. The quickest way to fix it is to close all files (including tutorial) and then rerun the tutorial. Then it should work.

Many thanks!

[freddie66NFG]

Hi there John,

Again, thank you for getting back to me. I've tried closing the programme, and re-opening it and starting only the inventor tutorial. Unfortunately that doesn't work either!

When I reopen the software, my view of the home screen is shown below.. under the projects tab there is only 'Default', 'Inventor Electrical Project', and 'Vault VMA'

Thanks again, Freddie.

View of my home screen, with projects tab showing availab

[JDMather]

The Project will not show up by default.

You have to go to Projects>Browse and locate it a (or Create it if it does not already exist).

What Tutorials are you going through?  The built-in Inventor tutorials?

Also, I see Vault in your screen capture.

I would not expect you to be using Vault at this stage.

[freddie66NFG]

Hi JD,
Thank you for responding, I'm doing the inbuilt tutorials. In the tutorial called 'Create a linear drive assembly', task 1, step 3 is to select component SWZ-W104003.ipt and import it to the model. 

When I open 'Place component', there are no components there. The tutorial video thinks I will have the following screen: (I circled the 'Workspace' in red as this is missing when I open 'Place Component', and the component I need is in there)

 

Many thanks, 
kind regards,
Freddie

[DannyHubbard]

Freddie,

Make sure you have the 2020.2 update installed, there were some problems with the tutorial project file that should be fixed in that update.

Could also try extracting the tutorial project file from the attached zip and copying it to "C:\Users\Public\Documents\Autodesk\.desktop-connect\.docstore\guided-tutorial-plugin\INVNTOR\2020" to see if that works.

Thanks,

Danny

[Paul.Normand]

Hello,

The guided tutorials require that the TutorialData.ipj file exists and is in the proper location. In your case it would be

C:\Users\Public\Documents\Autodesk\.desktop-connect\.docstore\guided-tutorial-plugin\INVNTOR\2020.

If you navigate to that folder and there is no TutorialData.ipj, try creating one in that location with that name.

The way the guided tutorials work is that it overwrites that file with the proper information every time you run a guided tutorial. That's why it's important that you do not have any files open when you start a guided tutorial. It's not a big deal when you run a tutorial that does not ask you to insert or place a components because it knows where the files exist. The TutorialData.ipj file is supposed to be created when you install Inventor. If it's not there, I'm not sure what happened, but creating it should fix it.

If everything was working properly TutorialData should appear in your list of projects and I don't see it.

I also checked with development and this was a known issue in R2020 that was fixed in 2020.2. If you update to the latest dot release it should fix it for you without needing to manually create the ipj file..

Best regards,

Paul

[freddie66NFG · Accepted solution]

Hi everyone, 

Thankyou for the replies. Your answers got me almost all the way there, it is now fixed.
I had the tutorial files in the location you specified, so added them to inventor by going Projects > New > and entering the file path specified by Danny and Paul: C:\Users\Public\Documents\Autodesk\.desktop-connect\.docstore\guided-tutorial-plugin\INVNTOR\2020

All the tutorials now work! 
Thanks everyone.