I am a technician for a school system and have a unique issue with Inventor. An instructor utilizes the Guided Tutorials within Inventor to assist her in teaching how to use the program, and since recently upgrading our machine to Windows 10 she has been unable to use these tutorials. Upon attempting to load the tutorials under a student's account (which is heavily restricted rights-wise) the tutorials do not load properly and they are greeted with the error message:
I'm happy to hear that the guided tutorials are proving useful to your instructor - not so good that you are having issues. The team that can get to the bottom of the issue is taking a look at it and will respond.
Hi there,
I'm trying to go through the tutorials in Inventor Pro 2020. In number 3 'Getting started with assemblies', the tutorial requires you to add a part called SWZ-W-104003.ipt with 'place component'.
The video walkthrough shows the part available in the directory 'workspace' after the tutor clicks 'place component'. However when I click place component, there is no workspace, only 'libraries' and 'content center files'.
Below are screenshots. In the second shot (tutor's video) I've circled the 'workspace' directory to highlight what is missing from my screen! Is my tutorial broken or is there a box unchecked somewhere? Greatly appreciate the help, the tutorial cannot be completed without this step!
I don't have any projects in the Projects window to activate. There are only two projects showing, 'Default', and 'Inventor Electrical Project'. Default is ticked by, err, default!
I've tried going into 'browse' at the bottom, and searching 'tutorial' in the Autodesk folders which turns up nothing. I've also searched by selecting 'all file types', and looked for anything containing the word tutorial, and found some folders under 'guided tutorial plugin'. None of the files inside these folders are project files, there are some files called 'Tutorial File', of filetype Autodesk Inventor Part, though these are recognisably parts from the inventor tutorials.
The screenshot below is the Projects window, the redacted part is a company projects folder.
Thank you again for any help!
Again, thank you for getting back to me. I've tried closing the programme, and re-opening it and starting only the inventor tutorial. Unfortunately that doesn't work either!
When I reopen the software, my view of the home screen is shown below.. under the projects tab there is only 'Default', 'Inventor Electrical Project', and 'Vault VMA'
Hi JD,
Thank you for responding, I'm doing the inbuilt tutorials. In the tutorial called 'Create a linear drive assembly', task 1, step 3 is to select component SWZ-W104003.ipt and import it to the model.
When I open 'Place component', there are no components there. The tutorial video thinks I will have the following screen: (I circled the 'Workspace' in red as this is missing when I open 'Place Component', and the component I need is in there)
The way the guided tutorials work is that it overwrites that file with the proper information every time you run a guided tutorial. That's why it's important that you do not have any files open when you start a guided tutorial. It's not a big deal when you run a tutorial that does not ask you to insert or place a components because it knows where the files exist. The TutorialData.ipj file is supposed to be created when you install Inventor. If it's not there, I'm not sure what happened, but creating it should fix it.
Thankyou for the replies. Your answers got me almost all the way there, it is now fixed.
I had the tutorial files in the location you specified, so added them to inventor by going Projects > New > and entering the file path specified by Danny and Paul: C:\Users\Public\Documents\Autodesk\.desktop-connect\.docstore\guided-tutorial-plugin\INVNTOR\2020
I just installed Inventor 2013 on my Windows 8 PC. Everything works fine but I can't seem to get the interactive tutorials to work. The ones included work fine but I downloaded the biggest pack from =123112&id=16463987 and followed the instructions. It just won't work.
Are you saying that none of the tutorial files work? Or is it just the Interactive tutorials? If the latter, then maybe it is an Adobe Flash pluggin or some other component that is missing or will not work with Windows 8.
Did you visit the link JDMather provided in his last post? It should take you to the list of tutorials that you can follow. The link you reference is the download link for the Inventor files mentioned in those tutorials.
They wouldn't connect at first, and based on prior forum posts I tried reinstalling everything in the LWS folder. That allowed me to do one of the tutorials. But immediately after finishing it, the whole system stopped connecting again, and now when I try to uninstall/reinstall the LWS items I get a corruption error saying "cabinet file 1" is missing.
On a related note, I just tried Inventor on my other PC and it still doesn't work. Does the software simply not have functional tutorials? I checked my firewalls, it doesn't look like they're the issue.
Now that I'm on the new computer, the uninstallation/reinstall process does consistently solve the connection issue and allows me to access the tutorials for a couple hours before it breaks down and stops connecting again, after which I need to uninstall/reinstall again. It's inconvenient, and I'd hope you can pass the issue along to your dev team since it appears to have nothing to do with the firewall/node processes, but it works so that's what I'm using.
No one here has recommended you reinstall the tutorials, I also do not recommend it because I've already done it and it has not changed anything and uninstalling/installing the LWS folder files does not touch the tutorial files, but if you want to try your luck, you can find them here in the cmbron's post:
Autodesk has created an exciting platform built around users helping each other by creating tutorials in Inventor. With the recent Inventor 2017.3 update, Guided Tutorials were improved to allow users to create their own unique content to share with the Inventor user base.
Guided Tutorials are learning tools within Inventor for you to run through various tutorials created by other users of the software. You can run through these tutorials and learn new functionalities and enhancements.
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