Autodesk Inventor Services & Support

Unable to Import STEP or IGES file in Inventor 2009

Published date: 2009-Oct-01
ID: TS13528863

Applies to:
AutoCAD® Inventor® Professional Suite 2010
Autodesk® Inventor® Professional for Simulation 2009
Autodesk® Inventor® Professional for Routed Systems 2009
Autodesk® Inventor™ Professional 2009
AutoCAD® Inventor® Routed Systems Suite 2010
AutoCAD® Inventor® Simulation Suite 2010
AutoCAD® Inventor® Suite 2010
Autodesk® Inventor™ Suite 2009

Issue

1.While trying to load any STEP or IGES file in Inventor 2009, Inventor hangs and doesn't respond.

2.This issue is caused by a Microsoft defect.

3.We need to generate the translation report while importing IGES/STEP/Parasolid files, but this defect blocks the report creation.

Solution

Try the following workaround after installing Service Pack 2 for Inventor 2009.

1.Right click on My Computer and choose Properties.

2.In Windows XP, Click “Advanced”.

3.In Windows Vista, Click "Advanced system settings".

4.Then Click the Environment Variables, a dialog pops up.

You can add the variable as following.

Variable name  : TRANS_REPORT_OPTION
Variable value : 1

With Inventor 2009, TRANS_REPORT_OPTION can be any value if only it is not empty (Works with 1 & 2).
With Inventor 2010, TRANS_REPORT_OPTION should be 2.

5. Restart Inventor.

6. Try to import a STEP or IGES file into Inventor.

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