Inventor?

[InventorGod]

I have Inventor 4 on my computer. It ran fine for about 6 months, but now it freezes when it tries to open a saved or new part, assembly, or draing, the wait time for drawings is signifiacntly less than with the parts and assemblies. It takes up to a minute for a drawing to open, but I haven't timed how long it takes a part or assembly to open. To open the program itself takes A LOT longer. The longest it's taken was 2 and a half hours, but it's usually around 1 and a half. When I first put it on here, it opens fast and worked great, but now it does like I mentioned before. Does anyone know how to fix this or why it's doing it, I've cleaned my harddrive and deleted unnecissary files and programs. So it has plenty of harddrive and physical memory. Please help, someone.

 

[rollupswx]

Inventor 4 is a really ancient version.
I had a computer that was running slower and slower and then did a defrag one day after deleting a bunch of programs that I no longer used. I was astounded how much faster everything ran after the defrag.
As old as that release is I think it would make good sense to reformat the hard drive and re-install all of your software. I think 3yrs is about the outside limit before I would reformat and re-install. On our lab computers re reformat every 6 months. Never have half the problems I hear other people having.

 

[InventorGod]

I was afraid I'd have to reinstall, I've done numerous defrags, and haven't got to get a newer version of Inventor, mainly because of price

 

[btrueblood]

Um, rollups post reminded me of something...

even the latest version of Inventor creates temporary files in its own "temp" directory. Unlikely as it is (ha!), if you crash, those temp files don't get deleted. After awhile they build up and bog the system down. Try searching your drive for temp directories, or drill around in various areas of Inv to locate it; then (with Inv shut down) delete everything in there. The enema treatment should have your Inv session feeling much peppier... good luck.

 

[InventorGod]

I didn't think about that, do you know where to find them, I looked in all my Invenotr folders and in my Temp folder

 

[CorBlimeyLimey]

From

http://www.inventor-certified.com/graphics/requirements.php

After installation, a workspace of 1GB minimum is required for the Undo file and other Autodesk Inventor® temporary files. The default location is defined by your TEMP environment variable. You can change this location by running Autodesk Inventor® and changing the location of the Undo file. Actions, such as repair, related to the SQL data base for the Content Center may require a TEMP space up to 3 times the size of the database file (3 x 1.2GB).

 

[btrueblood]

I was afraid you'd ask that...

On my Inv11 installation, for a WinXP operating system, the temp folder is on:

c:\documents and settings\(my user name)\local files\temp

I found it by opening inventor, and then choosing the menu item "Tools>Application Options..." and then clicking on the "files" tab, and looking at the "undo" file location.

Hope that helps.

 

[InventorGod]

Thank I found it, but it's still sloww comig uop, I'm going to try to save all my prts and assys and reinstall. Thank everyone

 

[btrueblood]

Um, you may need to restart after deleting the files. Sorry I forgot to mention that. After you restart the computer, and before restarting Inv, check the temp folder again, clean it if need be, restart, etc. until it stays empty.