Stress Analysis and Inventor Studio greyed out

[Headhead4]

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.

[Xun.Zhang]

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!

[kelly.young]

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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[Headhead4]

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.

[kelly.young]

@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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[Headhead4]

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.

[Headhead4]

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]

[Headhead4]

[JDMather]

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@Headhead4 wrote:

.... if Microsoft Excel is not installed.

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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)?

[kelly.young]

@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:

How to use Inventor Reset Utility to reset the local environment for a Windows User Account (Invento...

Here is a similar article that might help:

Environment Apps grayed out again - reset utility NG, Inventor /install.exe NG

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[Headhead4]

@Anonymous I do have excel installed

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[Headhead4]

@kelly.young I read the article, but it didn't really help, but thanks anyway

[JDMather]

@Headhead4

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.

[Headhead4]

Alright I just reset it with the reset utility, and nothing happened

[JDMather]

Did you install Service Pack 2 and Update 1 for Service Pack 2?

[Headhead4]

@JDMather Out of curiosity, what does the RTM vesion mean? 

[JDMather]

Google is your friend.

https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=cPtYWomnE-7s_QbUxrPQBQ&q=what+does+rtm+mean&oq=what+does+...

The original release of a software version.  (as contrasted to unsupported Beta version)

[Headhead4]

this popped up when I attempted to install Inventor2016_SP2 which is the name of Autodesk Inventor 2016 Service Pack 2

[JDMather]

Did you read it?

Did  you install Service Pack 1 first?