March 4, 2016
Release Notes - Autodesk Inventor 2017 Readme
Autodesk, Inc.
In a continuing effort to provide high quality products, Autodesk has released Autodesk Inventor 2017. This readme highlights significant known issues and provides useful information for operating Inventor.
Contents
Notes about Installation and Uninstallation
General
%USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Autodesk\Inventor 2017\Content Center
%USERPROFILE%\Documents\Inventor\Content Center Files\R2017\
See the Uninstallation section below for further information.
Verify that Autodesk Licensing Service x64 - 3.1 does not appear in the Control Panel before reinstalling
Installation
Windows7: KB 2533552
Windows8.1: KB2919442; KB2919355
The correct link to the electrical manufacturer database is http://www.autodesk.com/autocadelectrical-content-default-catalog-database.
Autodesk Desktop Connect Service
Autodesk Guided Tutorial Plugin
Inventor Connect Desktop for A360
“C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Desktop Connect\forever\Stopall.cmd”
Including Desktop Connect, Guided Tutorials, Inventor Connect and Configurator 360.
If you do not check this option during deployment, you may encounter an error when you try to use the related function in Inventor.
Including Communication Center, and Autodesk Exchange Apps.
Note: You can always control updates from Autodesk using the CAD Manager Tool, available from Tools and Utilities on the Installer.
To modify the option, Enable Design Collaboration, you must uninstall and then reinstall Autodesk Inventor through Add/Remove Program.
Uninstallation
Disk Requirements - Autodesk Inventor 2017
Includes Inventor disk requirements and Inventor prerequisites disk requirements.
System | Actual Disk Required | |
Windows 64 bit | Total - 17.5 GB | System drive (required) – 8.5 GB |
Desktop Content Library | Actual Disk Required |
ANSI | 1,402.88 MB |
DIN | 431.8 MB |
GOST | 927.6 MB |
ISO | 275 MB |
JIS & GB | 772 MB |
Feature | 3.2 MB |
Other | 1,812.5 MB |
Parker | 49.1 MB |
Routed Systems | 6.3 MB |
Sheet Metal | 45.3 MB |
Mold Metric | 58.1 MB |
IDF standard Content | 0.79 MB |
Before you begin...
Windows 7 SP1 64-bit: Windows Update is in the Control Panel, which is accessible from the Start menu.
Windows 8.1 64-bit: Windows Update is in the Control Panel, on the desktop Charms Bar, Settings menu.
Windows10 64-bit: Windows Update is in the Setting menu, which is accessible from the Start menu.
Note: It may be necessary to perform Windows Update multiple times to completely update your operating system.
To install Autodesk Inventor 2017:
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 2017.
To verify the installation was successful, start Inventor. On the Help menu, select About Autodesk Inventor. If the About box displays: Build: 142, Release: 2017, the installation was successful.
Translator | Import | Export |
Alias | V10 or later | |
CATIA V4 | All Revisions | |
CATIA V5 | R6 - V5-6R2015 | R10 - V5-6R2015 |
Creo Parametric | 1.0; 2.0; 3.0 | |
DWF/DWFx | 6.0 – 7.5 | 7.5 |
DWG | All Revisions | R2000; R2004; R2007; R2010; R2013; R2017 |
IDF | 2.0; 3.0 | |
IFC | IFC 2x3 | |
IGES | All Revisions | 5.3 |
JT | 7.0 – 10.0 | 7.0 – 10.0 |
NX | Unigraphics V13 - NX 10 | |
OBJ | N/A | N/A |
Parasolid | Up to 28.0 | 9.0 - 28.0 |
1.6 | ||
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 |
RFA | R2017 | |
Rhino | Up to 5.0 | |
RVT | Up to R2017 | |
SAT | Up to 7.0 | 7.0 |
SolidWorks | 2001 Plus – 2016 | |
STEP | AP214, AP203E2, AP242 | AP214, AP203E2, AP242 |
STL | N/A | N/A |
SMT | Up to ASM222 | ASM222 |
XGL/ZGL | N/A |
3D Sketch
BIM Exchange
Communication and Interoperability
Guided Tutorials
Presentations
Sheet Metal
Task Scheduler
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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