Inventor 2020/2021
For Inventor 2020/2021 there’s no native support for the full preview so the Inventor Viewer must be installed as additional application;
please consider the following procedure is also for Inventor 2021, just replace “2020” with “2021” in the paths
Once installed, you’ve to manually copy and register as followings:
copy from
C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor View 2020\Bin\InventorViewCtrl.ocx C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor View 2020\Bin\CommonLIB.dll C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor View 2020\Bin\en-US\InventorViewRes.dll
to the correspondent subpath of the Inventor 2020 installation:
C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor 2020\Bin\InventorViewCtrl.ocx C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor 2020\Bin\CommonLIB.dll C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor 2020\Bin\en-US\InventorViewRes.dll
please note the third file is contained in a language dependent folder (en-US is for US english installation), so make sure of copying accordingly to the installed language;
for this reason the installation language of Inventor and Inventor viewer must be the same.
then, opening an administrative command prompt, you’ve to register the dll:
Regsvr32 "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor 2020\Bin\InventorViewCtrl.ocx"
finally, add the following path as a further value of the already existing “PATH” environment variable
C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor 2020\Bin
through the Edit environment variable dialog:
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