In the Environments tab in Inventor 2016, the Stress Analysis and Inventor Studio are greyed out. I have 3 computers, 2 of which are laptops, both have these functions working, however on my main desktop, they are not. I've already gone through the registry editor and attempted to fix it that way. I am the only user.
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Hi,
Have your checked the addin loaded or not? go to Tools -> Add-ins for a quick check.
or try to repair the application in the control panel.
Hope it helps!
Hello @Headhead4 just a thought, are you at the top level of the assembly?
If within an assembly you have dived into a part/sub-assembly the Environment Tabs will be greyed out.
If so, Return to Top and see if they come back.
If not, check Environments > Manage > Add-Ins > Load Behavior > Loaded
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I've tried and I just recently reinstalled it and that did nothing. I think it has to do with a seperate program I don't have installed. For example, the thread tool does not work if Microsoft Excel is not installed.
@Headhead4 have you updated to the most recent Microsoft update recently? Since you mention a thread issue, it might be related to this:
Microsoft Security Updates Might Cause Problems - Hole Thread Unavailable
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I have. That was the first thing I thought. What I think is weird is my laptop has the same exact programs and settings as my desktop and the laptop has no problem.
I realized I didn't answer your question. It's greyed out in general. I'll make a new part, go to environments, and Stress analysis and Inventor Studio will be greyed out.
@Headhead4 wrote:
.... if Microsoft Excel is not installed.
Just to be sure - do you have MS Excel on this machine?
Just to be sure - can you go to Help>About Inventor and post screen shot of your version of Inventor (showing service pack level)?
@Headhead4 thanks for the screenshots, yeah it should not be greyed out when creating new part with the add-ins loaded.
As a general suggestion, make sure that the 2016 version is updated to current.
You could try the Inventor Reset Utility:
Here is a similar article that might help:
Environment Apps grayed out again - reset utility NG, Inventor /install.exe NG
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You should never post your personal Serial Number on a public forum.
I was expecting an image something like this (with Serial Number removed).
Note that you are on RTM release (SP0) - you should install the latest Service Packs and Updates for your version of Inventor.
Be sure to have UAC on lowest level during install of Service Packs.
Did you install Service Pack 2 and Update 1 for Service Pack 2?
Google is your friend.
The original release of a software version. (as contrasted to unsupported Beta version)
this popped up when I attempted to install Inventor2016_SP2 which is the name of Autodesk Inventor 2016 Service Pack 2
Did you read it?
Did you install Service Pack 1 first?
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