Inventor add-in repair utility

In some cases Inventor modules may not function correctly despite the overall installation seems to work correctly. This may happen with any module like Inventor Studio, Tube&Pipe, Stress analysis, Design Accelerator, Dynamic Simulation, Frame Generator, the Content Center or Vault add-ins.

Symptoms usually vary from missing functionality or toolbar icons not working, to missing add-ins in your configuration. Commands may be grayed out or replaced by a question mark combined with a "Command not loaded" message.

To attempt to correct add-in registration issues, download attached batch file and place it in the BIN folder of your Inventor installation at <Inventor installation folder>\bin.
The default location of this folder is c:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor <version>\bin with <version> being the Inventor version number.
You will need administrative privileges to run this program, and on Windows Vista systems also UAC (User Access Control) switched off. Save this batch file to the Inventor bin folder.
Run the file by double clicking on it, while making sure that no Inventor.exe processes are running.

inventor_reregistration.cmd (cmd - 6Kb)

For older versions of Inventor (2010 and 2011), you might also want to read the following article.

Important note

Trying to run this utility on Inventor 2012 or later will have no effect for the simple reason that starting from Inventor 2012 many of the add-ins are registry free and thus no longer use the registration mechanism from 2010 and 2011 upon which this utility relies.