Inventor 5.3 Service Pack 2 is Available for Download

[Jason Ruge (Autodesk Support)]

Can you believe it I think the FTP server is currently offline...

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Regards,
Jason Ruge
Manufacturing Product Support
Autodesk, Inc.

"Kent Keller" <ke...@strobedata.com> wrote in message
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> Jason
>
> When I click on the install file I get page not found
>
> --
> Kent
> Member of the Autodesk Discussion Forum Moderator Program
>
>
> "Jason Ruge (Autodesk Support)" <discussio...@autodesk.com> wrote in
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> news:9955048DDC97C210...@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> > Here is the Install file:
> > ftp://adeskftp.autodesk.com/prodsupp/downloads/Inventor_5_3_SP2.exe
> >
> > Here is the Readme file:
> > ftp://adeskftp.autodesk.com/prodsupp/downloads/Inventor_5_3_SP2.txt
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Jason Ruge
> > Manufacturing Product Support
> > Autodesk, Inc.
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
>

[Kent Keller]

[Jason Ruge (Autodesk Support)]

[Kent Keller]

Found it Don't know why the link doesn't work for me though.

[Larry Caldwell]

The 14th! How come it took 10 days to get posted ... <G>

Thanks for your efforts ... now, lets see wha'cha been do'n! (rub hands
together; grin on face)
~Larry

"Jason Ruge (Autodesk Support)" <discussio...@autodesk.com> wrote in

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[Glenn]

Larry,

The SP2 release was internally announced today at 12:33 PM.
Jason announced it in this NG today at 1:58 PM.
It took only 1 hour and 25 minutes... <BG>

Glenn
Autodesk Inventor Team

"Larry Caldwell" <l...@houston.rr.com> wrote in message
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[Cory McConnell]

Thanks for the heads up Jason.

C McConnell

"Jason Ruge (Autodesk Support)" <discussio...@autodesk.com> wrote in
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[Quinn Zander]

Well that was boring.

Downloaded it.
Installed it.

It didn't even mess up the App.Options.

It resized the browser-but didn't kick the panel bar out of "expert"
mode.

Are you sure this thing "did" something? <g>

QBZ

"Jason Ruge (Autodesk Support)" <discussio...@autodesk.com> wrote
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[Quinn Zander]

Well something's gettin' wacked REAL fast here...

I can't get any parameters linked into the properties and DA (from the
IAM) is giving me some stupid general error "reading file references".

All Right! Bring it on!

QBZ

"Ron Crain" <r...@arken.net> wrote in message
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> Too used to problems, huh?

[Ron Crain]

Too used to problems, huh?

"Quinn Zander" <mtn...@mb.sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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[Jimmy Carr]

Try using the measuring tool in an assembly while viewing it head on in a
common view. I'm getting problems here, especially if there are cylinders
involved.

"Quinn Zander" <mtn...@mb.sympatico.ca> wrote in message

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[Quinn Zander]

Measuring seems to work as always. What problems are you seeing?

Does your Design Assistant work from the File menu in an assembly?

Mine works from Explorer, but not from the IAM.

And I definitely CANNOT get parameters into the Custom Properties.

QBZ

"Jimmy Carr" <JCA...@nc.rr.com> wrote in message
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[Jimmy Carr]

Yes, I can expand the assembly and show all parts with no problem. Lets
make sure I doing it like you are. I have the assembly open, go to file,
then design assistant, then expand...no prob.

based on Walt's experience, maybe its an install problem.

"Quinn Zander" <mtn...@mb.sympatico.ca> wrote in message

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> ....and you can expand the assembly listed and all the parts show
> without error?
>
> Can I do a "repair" without messing up any good SP2 might have done?
>
> QBZ
>
>
> "Walt Jaquith" <wa...@harristhermal.com> wrote in message
> news:429BB4D53C923CA7...@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...
> > I can get DA from the File menu in an assembly...
>
>
>

[Jimmy Carr]

I can crash it. Its an assembly with an array of 12 cylinders. I can't
measure from the top of one of the cylinders to the edge of another part
without it hanging. I tried it on a smaller one and it responded albeit
very slowly. It seems that cylinders viewed orthogonal gives it fits. I
was able to open Design Assistant from the File menu while an assembly was
open. Did not have a manage tab though like in Explore. What can you do at
this point with DA. I don't use it much in this way. Did not try the
custom properties issue.

"Quinn Zander" <mtn...@mb.sympatico.ca> wrote in message

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[Jimmy Carr]

Okay, Maybe something wrong here. Were the cylinders lined up such that
they were hidden behind each other?

"Walt Jaquith" <wa...@harristhermal.com> wrote in message
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> I can get DA from the File menu in an assembly...
>
> Measure is working fine, too. I tried it head-on in an assembly that was
> basically nothing but cylinders....
>
> WJ

>
> "Quinn Zander" <mtn...@mb.sympatico.ca> wrote in message

> news:291590F5291597F7...@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...

[Quinn Zander]

....and you can expand the assembly listed and all the parts show
without error?

Can I do a "repair" without messing up any good SP2 might have done?

QBZ

"Walt Jaquith" <wa...@harristhermal.com> wrote in message
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> I can get DA from the File menu in an assembly...

[Walt Jaquith]

I can get DA from the File menu in an assembly...

Measure is working fine, too. I tried it head-on in an assembly that was
basically nothing but cylinders....

WJ

"Quinn Zander" <mtn...@mb.sympatico.ca> wrote in message
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[Walt Jaquith]

Yes, and yes.

According to information from Autodesk, the repair utility is smart enough
to keep you at your current level. See "R5 SP2 Repair install question",
1-3-02.

WJ

"Quinn Zander" <mtn...@mb.sympatico.ca> wrote in message

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[Sean Dotson]

Man of all the days to work from home.. jeeze I miss all the fun :)

_Sean

"Jimmy Carr" <JCA...@nc.rr.com> wrote in message

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[Walt Jaquith]

If I'm picturing what you're trying to do correctly, yes. I've got an
assembly with rows of cylindrical rings going down the outside of another
cylinder (think washers stacked on a bolt). Looking straight down on it, I
can measure in any manner that I've tried.

WJ

"Jimmy Carr" <JCA...@nc.rr.com> wrote in message

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[Jimmy Carr]

Yep, that's the scenario. Thanks that's encouraging. Let me poke around a
little. Something is definitely wrong here. Maybe a bad download or
something, the server was a bit flaky at the time.

"Walt Jaquith" <wa...@harristhermal.com> wrote in message

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[Quinn Zander]

What was the size of your download.

It kept insisting 7.23Meg, but it lists as 7412Kb in Explorer.

QBZ

"Jimmy Carr" <JCA...@nc.rr.com> wrote in message

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[Jimmy Carr]

Well this is interesting. I'm taking baby steps here, so I did a cold
boot, not a restart and it (measuring tool) seems to be working as
advertised.

"Quinn Zander" <mtn...@mb.sympatico.ca> wrote in message

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> Sick.
>
> I repaired and now I can't start IV.... its looking for some
> ivtagmmatrix.dll that has mysteriously disappeared.
>
> Reinstall time.
>
> Service Packs always make me so happy.

>
> QBZ
>
>
> "Walt Jaquith" <wa...@harristhermal.com> wrote in message

> news:0A9C3709EAED5CF0...@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...

[Quinn Zander]

Sick.

I repaired and now I can't start IV.... its looking for some
ivtagmmatrix.dll that has mysteriously disappeared.

Reinstall time.

Service Packs always make me so happy.

QBZ

"Walt Jaquith" <wa...@harristhermal.com> wrote in message

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[Jimmy Carr]

7412kb.

"Quinn Zander" <mtn...@mb.sympatico.ca> wrote in message

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[Jimmy Carr]

oops, spoke to soon. Measure is still broke for me. Walt, the cylinders
were arrayed rectangular in both directions if that makes any difference.
Maybe a new install is in order along with a fresh download of the sp. I
can send you that dll if you want Quinn.

"Jimmy Carr" <JCA...@nc.rr.com> wrote in message

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[Jimmy Carr]

How do you "blow away IV out of the Registry"? This is the first time I've
had any problems with service packs....welcome to the club huh?

"Quinn Zander" <mtn...@mb.sympatico.ca> wrote in message

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> I just finished blowing away IV out of the Registry...
>
> We'll see what happens when I get everything loaded and packed.
>
> Now I suppose I won't be able to import DWG's without blowing VVE away
> too... we'll see!
>
> QBZ

>
>
> "Jimmy Carr" <JCA...@nc.rr.com> wrote in message

> news:CDC03F72D4D0553D...@in.WebX.maYIadrTaRb...

[Quinn Zander]

I just finished blowing away IV out of the Registry...

We'll see what happens when I get everything loaded and packed.

Now I suppose I won't be able to import DWG's without blowing VVE away
too... we'll see!

QBZ

"Jimmy Carr" <JCA...@nc.rr.com> wrote in message

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[Walt Jaquith]

Sorry I dropped out of the conversation...ya gotta go home sometime, right?

Jimmy, my cylinders aren't arrayed; it's just one of my big, roundish
assemblies. I get the feeling we're doing apples and oranges here, and I'm
not being much help. If you can post an example to CF, I'll try to
duplicate your problem.

On the DA issue, I've always considered a full reinstall the price you pay
to be sure. Inventer still seems to like to be reinstalled from time to
time anyway, and a new SP is a good excuse. The registry keys
HKEY_CURRENT_USER and HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE both have entries for Inventor;
usually under software|autodesk... when I uninstall Invnentor, I delete
these entries entirely. The install routine then rebuilds them, which
insures a totally clean reinstall.

Of course, messing with the registry is dangerous. Observe all precautions,
including not doing it at all if you're not sure what 'all precautions' are.

WJ
(from home)

"Jimmy Carr" <JCA...@nc.rr.com> wrote in message

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[Jimmy Carr]

Walt. I posted a watered down version. It will respond, but see if you
can measure from the bottom to the tube to the top of the container like you
should be able to, viewing it as if it was one container in the view. In
the project assembly, this hangs it up and a re-boot is required.

"Walt Jaquith" <bea...@spessart.com> wrote in message
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[Jimmy Carr]

geeze. I just checked CF to see if it was downloadable and what is all of
this included in the message body? I did this in a hurry, but what gives
here.

"Jimmy Carr" <JCA...@nc.rr.com> wrote in message

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[Kent Keller]

Jimmy

The post is corrupt. Looks like it might be a link to the zip or ?? it is a
real small download.

--
Kent Keller
Member of the Autodesk Discussion Forum Moderator Program

http://www.MyMcad.com/KWiK/Mcad.htm

"Jimmy Carr" <JCA...@nc.rr.com> wrote in message

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[Jimmy Carr]

Kent, looks like i messed it up again. It locked up OE for me. I would
appreciate it if you could have the 2 post removed and I will try later when
I know what the H*** I'm doing.

"Kent Keller" <kwik...@verizon.net> wrote in message
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[Cory McConnell]

Boy this is a blast. Is anybody having trouble installing the SP? I have
downloaded it 3 times, rebooted twice and tried to install yhe SP 15 times.
I get the same error:

INTERNAL ERROR 2203
<service pack path> -2147287038.

Cory McConnell

"Jimmy Carr" <JCA...@nc.rr.com> wrote in message

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[Roy A. Brayton]

Is there something that we need to know about SP #2 and Windows 2000 Pro? I
keep getting an "internal error 2203" and a path pointing to a Temp file on
drive C when I try to load the SP. I moved everything to my laptop with
Windows XP, (where I don't want it) and the SP loaded fine, so it doesn't
seem to be a corrupted file. I did some diagnostics on my computer, and
everything seem to be in good health. And yes, my setup does meet the
criteria offered in the help file. Any ideas?

"Jason Ruge (Autodesk Support)" <discussio...@autodesk.com> wrote in
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> Here is the Install file:
> ftp://adeskftp.autodesk.com/prodsupp/downloads/Inventor_5_3_SP2.exe
>
> Here is the Readme file:
> ftp://adeskftp.autodesk.com/prodsupp/downloads/Inventor_5_3_SP2.txt
>
> --
> Regards,
> Jason Ruge
> Manufacturing Product Support
> Autodesk, Inc.
>
>
>
>

[Kent Keller]

Well I gave up with OE, and decided to download Free Agent for these ones
that lock up OE and I couldn't get it to see any attachments so I went to
the web ughhh and downloaded it.

It takes maybe ~2 seconds to measure from the bottom of the tube to the top
of the Jars. I imagine it is because there is so may possible spots to pick
from? Never tried anything like this in SP1 so couldn't say if it is faster
or slower.

--
Kent Keller
Member of the Autodesk Discussion Forum Moderator Program

http://www.MyMcad.com/KWiK/Mcad.htm

"Jimmy Carr" <JCA...@nc.rr.com> wrote in message

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[Quinn Zander]

Well, I'm in.

SP1 wouldn't even go in after the IV uninstall so I uninstalled Volo
View Express but left MDT loaded.

Installed VVE and IV5.3 consecutively.
Rebooted and SP1 went in.
Rebooted and SP2 went in.

I've got my DA back, my parameters export cleanly to Custom Properties,
and I've got MDT/Acad translation capability.

What an amazing 5.75 hours it has been... and I've yet to relocate the
Ifeatures, steel section templates, VB code, Charles' Text utility, IDW
templates blah blah blah.

QBZ

"Quinn Zander" <mtn...@mb.sympatico.ca> wrote in message

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[Laurence Yeandle]

"Well that was boring" :))

Laurence,

"Quinn Zander" <mtn...@mb.sympatico.ca> wrote in message

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[Walt Jaquith]

What? <g> You think it's our job to keep you entertained?

Seriously, if there's one thing I've learned, it's to reinstall Inventor
when adding a SP. Voloview, registry settings and all. Sure its a minor
hassle, but it's never failed to work for me, and ultimately takes less time
than messing around chasing dll errors and mysterious glitches.

"shortcuts make long delays" -Pippin Took

WJ

"Laurence Yeandle" <laurenc...@supanet.com> wrote in message
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[Larry Caldwell]

I usually reinstall but not right away. Way I see it, I only have a couple
of minutes invested in the installation of the service pack so that's all I
can really lose plus a minute or two to restore the work I was doing should
it get whacked. I wait till I see the first problems that I think are
related, then reinstall. So far I haven't seen any of the problems described
on the group ... we'll see I guess. <G>
~Larry

"Walt Jaquith" <bea...@spessart.com> wrote in message

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[Laurence Yeandle]

Actually Walt I was quoting old Quinn's first post wat they say don't shout
too soon :)
I hesitated for a minute then jumped straight in went real smooth, my
computers still original since IV4! I read in a car maintenance manual once,
unnecessary Sunday morning tinkering gives problems, if its all right why
fiddle. The amount of money I've taken off folk who employed my services to
fix what they broke. And a lot of them were engineers but didn't have the
time, all experts of course. You must be getting older or slowing up Walt
you post's aren't any way as colourful as they used to be :) yet <g>. Bye
for now and toodle loo.

Laurence,

"Walt Jaquith" <bea...@spessart.com> wrote in message
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[John Bilton]

Have you tried adding a folder called C:\Temp. I have had some programs
that would not install unless you added this folder. Win2k by default does
not create or use this folder, but I always create it and point my
environment to use this folder as it's easier to keep clean than digging
through Documents and Settings

HTH

John Bilton

[Finnur P. Frodason]

I got this error as well. Because this group of fine people :-) had run into
troubles I started with the laptop.
I tried all the tricks, uninstalled Volo, IV5 SP1, cleaned the registry -
always with a reboot between. All to no avail.
I Then realized that I could probably extract the files with WinZip. I did
so and run the update.
Everything worked.
I did this again on the production machine (extracting) and run the patch
without a glitch. No uninstalling etc.

Thanks for warning me.

Regards

Finnur

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[KJohnson]

I had the same error and tried out extracting the files using winzip then
running and it worked. I wonder what got messed up in creating the
installation. Out of curiosity what is your operating system. Could it be
Windows 2000?

Kathy Johnson

"Finnur P. Frodason" <fin...@cad.is> wrote in message
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[Finnur P. Frodason]

W2K + SP 2 on both machines

Finnur
"KJohnson" <kj@sensoft> wrote in message
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[KJohnson]

Interesting. I wonder if more people using Win 2k will have the same
problems.

Kathy Johnson
"Finnur P. Frodason" <fin...@cad.is> wrote in message

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[Lars Grundberg]

I had the same error , extracted using winzip, then it worked
W2SP2

[Andrew Pawelski]

Win2K SP2 - I had no problems at all.

"KJohnson" <kj@sensoft> wrote in message

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[Terry Joynson]

It's not W2K only, had the same on XP. The solution is to change the TEMP
enviroment variable to point at a shortname directory (C:\TEMP).
Worked for me.

Terry Joynson

"KJohnson" <kj@sensoft> wrote in message

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[Patrick Berry]

That's because 1Mb is actually 1024Kb, not 1000Kb. So much for the metric
system eh?

Patrick Berry

"Quinn Zander" <mtn...@mb.sympatico.ca> wrote in message

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> What was the size of your download.
>
> It kept insisting 7.23Meg, but it lists as 7412Kb in Explorer.
>
> QBZ
>
>

> "Jimmy Carr" <JCA...@nc.rr.com> wrote in message