Inventor View 2012 Association Help

[ezimmerman]

We have installed the x64 version of Inventor View 2012 on three Win7 x64 computer and the x86 version on one Win7 x86 computer.

The file associations are not there? Attached is a screen shot of one of the problem computers. The extensions (idw, iam, ipt etc...) are not listed?

We can make the association manually. However, we are going to be installing on 30+ computers and doing the association manually does not sound like fun. Can anyone help correct the file association issue?

Thank you

[Daren.Lawrence]

When you installed on the client machine, did you make sure that you were logged in as a local administrator (not domain) with all antivirus/antispyware disabled and the user account control set to “never notify” (lowest setting)? This is the first thing that comes to mind because the file associations are made with access to the registry upon installation. I’m in the process of making a virtual W7 machine to test the stand alone Inventor viewer to test this, but please let us know if this resolves it. Thank you.

[Daren.Lawrence]

After testing this on the Virtual machine with only the Inventor Viewer application, I see it's definitely not making the file associations as you stated. The problem seems to be in one of the applications or application extenstions in the bin folder and seems to have to do with the dtdv.exe as shown in this blog:

http://beinginventive.typepad.com/being-inventive/page/2/

(Under "Inventor View and Thumbnails")

Once I copied and ran the *this is Important* bit specific version of that executable into the bin folder for Inventor View - "<Install directory>\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor View\Bin", ran the viewer once and made the association with one file type, Explorer then registered all the remaining file types. So this is what I'd recommend and, instead of 1 person (you) doing this on 30 machines, I'd recommend 30 people making the file association part at least, on 1 machine. I hope that helps!

[mhenson]

We are having a similar issue.  When double clicking an .idw file we get the following error.

We click yes and then this error:

Click Ok and nothing happens.  We can open the file by dragging it onto the Inventor View 2012 icon.  Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks

[mhenson]

Un-installing Inventor View 2011 fixed this, but now I have a new error.  I can still open by dragging the file onto the Inventor View 2012 icon.

[Anonymous]

I have a client also getting the same error as mhenson.  Has anyone found a solution to what is happening to the file association?

[Anonymous]

I'm getting this error as well on all of our pc's with the standalone install (x86, Win XP). Has anyone found a solution to this?

[jdits7]

They did released a service pack recently, haven't had a chance to see if it is the fix or not. It can be downloaded from here.

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/index?id=10535296&siteID=123112

[Anonymous]

Well... tried the service pack and we still have the same issue. Has anyone found a solution? This seems like its a pretty big issue for anyone using Inventor View.

[Jon.Dean]

The problem here is that Inventor 2012 is not installed on the computer, so the filetypes have not been registered.

Darren gave you all the solution but maybe it was difficult to find.

Please jump to the following LINK.

Hope it helps.

Jon

[Jon.Dean]

Sorry the link did not work (typo).

Try this LINK

Jon

[Anonymous]

If you apply the following registry entries to your computer, the file assocations with Inventor view 2012 will work for anyone who logs in.  The key is that file assocations for the computer are stored in HKLM\Software\Classes.  This also works for Terminal Servers as well.  This associates IPT and IDW file types to the viewer.

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes\.idw] @="idw_auto_file" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes\idw_auto_file] @="" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes\idw_auto_file\shell] [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes\idw_auto_file\shell\open] [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes\idw_auto_file\shell\open\command] @="\"C:\\Program Files\\Autodesk\\Inventor View 2012\\Bin\\InventorView.exe\" \"%1\"" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes\.ipt] @="ipt_auto_file" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes\ipt_auto_file] @="" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes\ipt_auto_file\shell] [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes\ipt_auto_file\shell\open] [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\Software\Classes\ipt_auto_file\shell\open\command] @="\"C:\\Program Files\\Autodesk\\Inventor View 2012\\Bin\\InventorView.exe\" \"%1\""

[sopeautocad]

Hi, not sure if this is relevant but i have found that Inventor file associations were not copied to domain accounts on some computers we have here. To fix I exported HKCU\Software\Classes from a local user account and imported it into the affected domain account.