start up glitch with inventor

[Anonymous]

https://autode.sk/38M8hPv

I am having troubles with accessing the home screen of my inventor programs and believe some files have been corrupted. is ther anything i can do to fix this?

[JDMather]

Is this a new install that never worked

or

did it work for some time and now suddenly doesn't work for some reason?

[mcgyvr]

I have had Inventor 2020 get stuck on "loading" like that multiple times. It was always when I had another instance of Inventor already running. 

Is that repeatable for you or just every once in a while?

If repeatable you might try turning off addins one by one until you can find the one that may be triggering that. 

Have you loaded the latest updates for Inventor?

[johnsonshiue]

Hi! It may be related to My Home page. Here is what you can try.

0) Close Inventor.

1) Go to File Explorer -> C:\Users\_your_login_\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\Inventor 2020\.

2) Find UserApplicationOptions.xml. Make a copy of it.

3) Edit it in Notepad.

4) Add the following line right below <ApplicationOptions....>

<General ShowHomeBaseOnStartup="0"/>

5) Save the xml file.

6) Restart Inventor.

Does it work better now?

Many thanks!

[Anonymous · Accepted solution]

It did work before but when the glitch happened I just wiped my computer clean of any inventor trace and re-installed the application. now it works great with one small issue. all my assembly files have there original icons set to the design assistant icons. I thought that kinda wierd but at least the program works well now.

[svetlana.antiperovitch]

Hi John,

Your instructions are not clear.

 Add the following line right below <ApplicationOptions....>

<General ShowHomeBaseOnStartup="0"/> 

Is this a new file name? What is the purpose of adding the line "to what?"

And what .xml we suppose to save?

[johnsonshiue]

Hi Svetlana,

The prior reply applied to older Inventor releases (2021 and earlier). What release are you on? If you want to disable Home page, go to Tools -> App Options -> General -> uncheck "Show Home on startup" -> Ok. Then restart Inventor.

Many thanks!