r/AutodeskInventor

Hi all,

I hope you’re doing well and Happy Fourth! I’m a teacher in NY who teaches “Autodesk Inventor and Revit” at the high school level. Two questions:

1. I make 129K forgive me if this is too personal but how does that compare to industry architects?

2. What are some projects in 2026 you recommend I try with my students for both Inventor and Revit?

Really enjoy Mechanical Drafting and Architecture but man, the kiddos are burning me out haha.

Thanks so much!

P.S. I Teach in Westchester County, NY.

Hi everyone. I need some help with this project. I couldn't think of a better idea than turning to this group for assistance. I’ve been trying various approaches, but I can't quite figure out the best option. How would you go about it?

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I installed Inventor 2023 on 1 Desktop and 1 Laptop in my workshop. They have been running fine for a couple years. Suddenly, both failed to start Inventor on the same day. WTF. Anyone have a clue? Did autodesk find a way to disable these?

Hi everyone,

I was one of the principal engineers who developed Autodesk Inventor Nastran (originally NEi Nastran) from 1987 to 2023 working primarily on the solver. If you’re stuck on a problem, whether it’s meshing, contacts, nonlinear analysis, bolt pretension, composites, dynamics, vibration, buckling, or interpreting results, I’ll do my best to help here in the thread. If it’s something that requires looking at confidential models or is too involved for Reddit, we can discuss other options privately. I don’t check Reddit constantly, but I’ll answer as many questions as I can. Looking forward to helping the community.

I'm a member of a university faculty (not a student) and I've been on an educational license for many years. So far Autodesk has always accepted a letter from the faculty head as a proof tor the educational letter. The letter states that I'm a faculty member and that I use Inventor for educational / training purposes. This year, out of the blue, they refused to accept this letter and claimed that it is "not an official document". This is nonsense but there is no way for me to object because the verification process is automatized and the decision is sent from a do-not-reply address. I've tried to resubmit the document with an added note explaining that this is in fact an official document but it got rejected again within a minute. I'm a bit at a loss here. I can't call Autodesk and complain because I'm not on a subscription and the university folks also don't know how to handle it. What can I do?

Is there a usable workaround in Inventor to quickly create many threads as real geometry?

I need printed threads, not inserts or alternatives. M3x0.5 has been working reliably for me for years.

ThreadModeler/ThreadCreator does not work properly for me in Inventor 2027.

Is there a practical solution using an add-in, iLogic, iFeature, or macro?

Ideally, Inventor would have an export option: cosmetic threads in the model, real threads only for STL/3MF export.

In Creo i use UDF's to choose and insert (para)metric threads

So, the kind of work I do, there are often assemblies that are mirror of each other!

One workflow thats in my mind but havent really used is:

1. I can just use mirror command to mirror all the parts in the parent assembly to be copied as mirror and then save it, that would be linked to the parent parts.
   Now that gives two porblems;
   A. There are always many parts that aren't the mirror but are the same as the parent part so obviously I wouldnt select those while mirroring, because I wouldnt want different part numbers for same parts, and have to manually add them later on.
   B. The mates wont copy along in the mirror assembly and evry part is going to be either loose or grounded, which really is usless, as I would have to add all the mates again!

2. The second workflow, which I always do, is just to manually mirror the parts I need in the part environment and just create the whole mirrored assembly again.

I have a feeling that there gotta be a smarter more efficient workflow which I dont know of.
So, any help?

Hi everyone!! Need an emergency help. I want to convert this txt file into STEP or PART (PART file will be great, if it is possible).

I don’t have inventor in my pc. So i couldn’t convert txt file. If you can help me out. It will be great. I will dm u the file

In our office we used Inventor 2011 from 2011 until last year when we updated to Inventor 2025. We store and work from a NAS and have noticed both permanent performance issues and occasional crashes when working on large assemblies after updating to Inventor 2025. We had no issues in Inventor 2011.

Found a forum post claiming NAS support was dropped in 2021 version which seems to be true as we had no issues when testing Inventor 2020. Post recommended using Windows server instead.

Most people seem to recommend using vault which is unfortunately not an option for our workflow.

Can anybody using Windows server share their experiences working as a small team on only the network drive? (No copying to local machine)

On a day to day basis we are 4-8 people working on the same project and workers and NAS are on premises so no cloud or remote access are used.

We only work on local machines when converting files from customer and plant point clouds.

Thanks in advance for any help!

TL;DR Working with files stored on a NAS is no longer supported, will switching to Windows server fix performance issues?

Hello.

I would like to assign different colors to individual purchased parts (cylinders, motors, LMs, etc.) in Inventor assembly drawings.

Currently, I am applying the color by right-clicking a specific purchased part model in the 'Model Browser' on the left and selecting 'Properties'.

While this works, it requires repeating the same process for every view.

This seems too time-consuming and inefficient, so I was wondering if there is an easier way to handle this.

Have a nice day.

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Hi everyone,

I'm working on a stiffened plate model in Inventor Nastran using shell elements. The model consists of a plate and intersecting stiffeners represented as shells.

A compressive load is applied from below, and as the structure deforms upward, I notice that the shell elements begin to separate at their intersections instead of behaving as a single continuous structure. Since these components represent welded structural members, I would expect them to remain fully connected during deformation.

The geometry appears to be touching, but I'm not sure whether the shells are actually sharing nodes or if I need to define an additional connection.

My questions are:

• What is the correct way to connect intersecting shell elements in Inventor Nastran?
• Should I use Continuous Mesh, Bonded Contact, Edge-to-Edge connections, or another approach?
• How can I verify that the shell elements are truly connected and behaving as a single piece?

I've attached images of the mesh and results for reference.

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!