February 27, 2015
Release Notes - Autodesk Inventor LT 2016 Readme
Autodesk, Inc.
In a continuing effort to provide high quality products, Autodesk has released Autodesk Inventor LT 2016. This readme highlights significant known issues and provides useful information for operating Inventor LT.
General
Installation
Uninstallation
Disk Requirements - Autodesk Inventor LT 2016
Includes Inventor LT disk requirements and Inventor LT prerequisites disk requirements.
System | Actual Disk Required | |
Windows 32 bit | Total - 4.5 GB | System drive (required) – 2.6 GB |
Windows 64 bit | Total - 5.0 GB | System drive (required) – 2.8 GB |
Before you begin...
Windows 7: Windows Update is in the Control Panel, which is accessible from the Start menu.
Windows 8: Windows Update is in the Control Panel, on the desktop Charms Bar, Settings menu.
It is sometimes necessary to perform Windows Update multiple times to completely update your operating system.
To install Autodesk Inventor LT 2016:
For Electronic Fulfillment users only:
For DVD users only:
For more detailed instructions, please refer to the installation instructions provided with your delivered media containing Autodesk Inventor LT 2016.
To verify the installation was successful, start Inventor LT. On the Help menu, select About Autodesk Inventor LT. If the About box displays: Build: 138, Release: 2016, the installation was successful.
Translator | Import | Export |
Alias | V10 or later | |
CATIA V4 | All Revisions | |
CATIA V5 | R6 - V5-6R2014 | R10 - V5-6R2014 |
Creo Parametric | 1.0; 2.0; 3.0 | |
IGES | All Revisions | 5.3 |
JT | 7.0 – 10.0 | 7.0 – 10.0 |
NX | Unigraphics V13 - NX 9 | |
Parasolid | Up to 27.0 | 9.0 - 27.0 |
Pro/ENGINEER | Up to Wildfire 5.0 | |
Pro/ENGINEER Granite | Up to 9.0 | 1.0 - 9.0 |
Pro/ENGINEER Neutral | N/A | N/A |
Rhino | Up to 5.0 | |
SAT | Up to 7.0 | 7.0 |
SolidWorks | 2001 Plus – 2015 | |
STEP | AP214, AP203E2, AP242 | AP214, AP203E2, AP242 |
STL | N/A | N/A |
XGL/ZGL | N/A |
Application Functionality
Inventor exports file formats tables.
In Inventor 2016, to export the following formats requires 32 or 64-bit Microsoft Excel to be installed on your computer.
To export the following database formats, Inventor uses the “Microsoft Access Database Engine”, which is part of Microsoft Office. For 64-bit Inventor, you must install 64-bit Microsoft Office in order to export these files. If 64-bit Microsoft Office is not installed, you will receive an error message, "Unable to create file: Database exports require a 64-bit Microsoft Office installation."
Communication and Interoperability
Enhanced Visualization
Inventor Studio
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Portions of this software copyright 1996-2008 Acresso Corporation.
All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
We thank all our customers who identified these issues and reported them to us. These reports give us the opportunity to improve the product and provide you with the best solution in mechanical design. We also thank you for your continued business and for the feedback regarding the content of this update release.
Respectfully,
Autodesk Inventor Product Team
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