Inventor Crashes

[dcornelius]

I was just wondering if anyone has had a problem with Inventor when working with an assembly, and any changes that are made the program crashes. I am working on a grain bin, and everytime I go to remove a part it crashes. I have installed the service packs and the "body culling" patch. The computer I have is a Dell with the ATI Radeon 300X graphics card, 3.4 GHz and I believe 2 gigs of ram. The IT department has tried to fix the problem, and everytime they come to "fix it" it does the same thing after a week. Very frustrating. If anyone can help it would be much appreciated.

[Commissar Rod]

Have you tried the same operation on a different computer? Try that if you can just to makesure your current computer doesn't have some "wires crossed" someplace

[dcornelius]

I am the only one here who uses inventor.

[Commissar Rod]

So.. it is working ok for a week and then it starts the problem again..... do you know what changes IT is making that gets it working temporally..... it could be a setting that they take off in windows that gets automatically "updated" every week by your companies server.... I had a similar problem with that at an old job, weekend maintenance would reset all the corrections

[JD Mather]

Try switching to OpenGL instead of Direct3D for a while and see if that takes care of the problem.

[JD Mather]

I am the only one here who uses inventor.

http://discussion.autodesk.com/forum.jspa?forumID=78

[peter.84791]

Don't feel lonely!

I am the only one here too and I get the same from time to time.

"Sorry for the inconvenience, we are sending a report..."

Great! And then the whole .iam file disappears completely. This actually happened the other day so I started again. I put it down to my not understanding the software well enough, or maybe...

[djeffrey.72058]

More that likely, it's your Graphics Card and Driver. Your ATI is not certified to run Inventor.

Here's a simple test....

In Inventor go to Tools > Application Options > Hardware.

If you set the radio button to the bottom setting - Generic OpenGL, pick OK and then open the same file, does it still crash? If not, then time to send your IT department shopping for a real workstation Card. Go to Inventor - Help > Graphics for a link to the Autodesk Card and Driver site.

[dcornelius]

I tried changing it to the generic openGL and inventor would not even open the assembly. It froze and did the old "not responding" message. This is typical I get the latest additions of inventor but when I ask for changes to my computer, so that I can run these programs it doesn't happen. AAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! Sorry had to vent a little.

[JD Mather]

I think the next release is actually a little more forgiving in the graphics card requirements. How often does that happen...