Inventor 2023 install developer tools - cannot find version of Visual Studio

[brad.jackson]

I am trying to install the 2023 Developer Tools, but it tells me that it 'Could not find any version of Microsoft Visual Studio'.  I have 'Visual Studio Professional 2022 installed'.  Any tips as to what I may be doing wrong?

[florian_wenzel · Accepted solution]

Hi,

you need to install Visual Studio 2019.

Then you will be able to instal SDK.

Then you can simple copy the the Addin Templete from Folder 2019 and past in Folder 2022.

Documents\Visual Studio 2019\Templates\ProjectTemplates

to

Documents\Visual Studio 2022\Templates\ProjectTemplates

[brad.jackson]

Thank you so much.  I will give that a shot and let you know how it comes out.

[Jakob_Hamburg]

Hi.

I know this is an old thread, but I want to contribute sth to this topic:

You can go to cmd window and use this command:

msiexec /a "C:\Users\Public\Documents\Autodesk\Inventor 2023\SDK\developertools.msi" TARGETDIR="C:\Temp\dt" /qb

I got the advice from this source:

https://codingforfun.de/extract-inventor-developer-tools-without-visual-studio-installed/

You have to move some files afterwards manually.

In the AU class "ClassPresentation-MFG601910-CurtisWaguespack-AU2023" () page 62) I got an idea where the folders should be.

To me it seems you can use VS2022