Inventor Project file Material Library not showing, solution

[Hunteil]

Just had a long drawn out troubleshooting scenario with the project file and material libraries not showing InventorMaterialLibary. (Inventor Material Library... The one that comes default with Inventor 2019.)

So here's what happened:

Company has an existing, out of date project .ipj file with incomplete company styles, blocks etc etc etc

I created a new project .ipj file for company.

Created a new directory for testing the new project file and templates etc.

Copied all the default "Design Data" file folders from: C:\Users\Public\Documents\Autodesk\Inventor 2019

Applied all my edits we needed.

But consistently when I created a new drawing or edited a drawing with the project active. The Material library pull down would show nothing there... As if the library file was empty.

I contacted some support and screen-shared and the same thing was confirmed with the gentleman and we couldn't figure it out. We even copied the "Design Data" folder/files from the default location to the desktop and mapped it and it didn't work still.

We exchanged files and couldn't replicate my scenario with the support. I even loaded it with my coworker computers and the glitch / bug presented there as well.

We even attempted a fresh install of Inventor to test this and the same issue semi-presented itself...

(see Solution below)

[Hunteil · Accepted solution]

Solution:

In Inventor application options. Go to General > Startup > Uncheck Startup action.

Then close inventor and reopen the application. It should open without a file opening.

Now select the project you want and test from this point on.

Reason:

We had Inventor setup to auto load the existing company Project file and open a new template to prevent files from opening in other project files. (this is a headache when you draw something in the wrong project and find yourself incapable of being able to upload to Vault etc.)

Anyways, because the Inventor opened another project file and loaded another drawing up. It had accessed the Material Library from that other project... So when you went to change the project file to your test project. It wouldn't register the different material library.

I hope this help others with the same issue. Good luck out there my fellow Inventor users.