Virtual Kit of Parts?

[Daniel Brim]

I did not see the Fuse Panel when scanning through the VKOP. Did I just miss it or is it there?

[jdiwnab]

I got permission to install the trial of Inventor 8 on my home computer, but it crashes when trying to work with assemblies and some other comands. My computer is powerful enough though. The trial of Inventor 4 (Yes I know it's old ) worked fine. Did this problem happen with anyone else? Or is there a work around to open the files anyway?

[Greg McCoy]

Originally Posted by jdiwnab

I got permission to install the trial of Inventor 8 on my home computer, but it crashes when trying to work with assemblies and some other comands. My computer is powerful enough though. The trial of Inventor 4 (Yes I know it's old ) worked fine. Did this problem happen with anyone else? Or is there a work around to open the files anyway?

What are the specs of your machine? Inventor requires a lot of RAM, my machine is a 1.5 GHz Pentium 4 with 640 MB of RAM and 60 GB of free disk space, and it still bogs down after several hours of heavy assembly work . I can't imagine working with less than 512 MB of RAM.

Originally Posted by DanielBCR

I did not see the Fuse Panel when scanning through the VKOP. Did I just miss it or is it there?

I too noticed that the fuse panel wasn't in the Virtual Kit of Parts on Streamline. Maybe somebody will post one

[jdiwnab]

I have a 1.9 GHz AMD with 768 MB of RAM runninng Win XP. I could have large assembly open with shiny materails rotating with very little of slowing down in Inventor 4.

It doesn't seem to be crashing becase I did too much, but that there is a problem with the program. Inventor just quits on me. Only when it crashed with a part tool did it give me a message about sending a report to Autodesk. Becuase we have dial up, I couldn't sent it then with someone on the phone (not me )

I would appreciate help so I can open the VKoP. We want to know exactly how heavy our bot is going to be.

[Greg McCoy]

Yeah, your computer should definitely be good enough. You might want to check your graphics card settings on the "Hardware" tab of the "Application Options" (under "Tools") making sure it's compatible and such.

If all else fails, you could try reinstalling, but I'm not sure what this entails as far as keeping your license. I've used Inventor for four years, and I've found it to be fairly reliable and crash-resistant in my experience. Hopefully someone else has more insight on problems like this

[jdiwnab]

The graphics card is OK. There isn't a usuall license becuase it is just a trial. So what if I lose a day, the design team hasn't found a final arm design yet, so I'm ok. Oh! Are there updates for inventor 8? I'll check that and tell you if it helps.

OK...Now it works. I just installed the updates (a lot of them) and it seems OK

They made the VKoP look good, but they didn't change the materials from default. I hoped the battery would really weigh 12 lbs. I'll have to edit them... Oh well...

[Anchi]

what fx card? alot simply dont work(almost all of the nvidia fx cards dont)

[bradford86]

One thing that I noticed helped our team with the kit of parts was having the full playing field. Out team has made it and have also made it avaliable to download for you use at our website www.pennrobotics.org/files. It was build in Autodesk Inventor 8 and you also have to download the winrar340.exe-WinRar file to beable to view it.