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Technical discussions => General discussion => Topic started by: bowen192 on October 23, 2014, 12:27:46 AM

Title: Is Inventor 2015 supported by Keyshot?
Post by: bowen192 on October 23, 2014, 12:27:46 AM
As the title, is Autodesk Inventor supported in Keyshot?
Title: Re: Is Inventor 2015 supported by Keyshot?
Post by: TpwUK on October 23, 2014, 05:43:55 AM
Yes it is, but not via plugin for live linking

Martin
Title: Re: Is Inventor 2015 supported by Keyshot?
Post by: bowen192 on October 23, 2014, 06:20:00 AM
OK, ta. Just having some problems with importing and since we've just changed over to 2015, I wanted to check it wasn't that.

Is there a plug-in in the pipeline?
Title: Re: Is Inventor 2015 supported by Keyshot?
Post by: TpwUK on October 23, 2014, 06:36:44 AM
Hi Bowen192, regarding plugins I can't answer that directly but one of the development guys might be able to shed more light on this for you. :)

Martin
Title: Re: Is Inventor 2015 supported by Keyshot?
Post by: bowen192 on October 23, 2014, 06:59:53 AM
I've asked a few times in the plugin section, but it feels like walking into a ghost town in there.

Would appreciate if you could point me in the right direction...
Title: Re: Is Inventor 2015 supported by Keyshot?
Post by: TpwUK on October 23, 2014, 09:42:13 AM
I'll see what i can do - no promises though

Martin
Title: Re: Is Inventor 2015 supported by Keyshot?
Post by: TpwUK on October 23, 2014, 10:01:05 AM
Made an enquiry Bowen, the issue is by demand. If enough demand is generated for a live plugin then the team will develop one, sadly with Inventor there has been very little interest shown for a KS to Inventor plugin. :/

So the best thing you can do if you want to see a plugin developed is get the guys from your Inventor support forum to start asking.

Personally myself, i prefer the direct importing of files rather than a live connection. Keeping it simple means less trouble for me :)

Martin
Title: Re: Is Inventor 2015 supported by Keyshot?
Post by: bowen192 on October 23, 2014, 10:14:33 PM
Cheers Martin.

Surprised about the lack of interest with Inventor, especially with Solidworks so prominent; usually one follows the other.

It seems to be a bit of a Catch-22. Without live-linking you might struggle to attract CAD Inventor companies, but without the company commitment there is no plug-in.  :-\

What is also odd is that there is already a Fusion360 plug-in when the F360 user base is dwarfed by Inventor.

I'll try and drum up some interest.

Thanks again.
Title: Re: Is Inventor 2015 supported by Keyshot?
Post by: cranston on October 24, 2014, 03:56:20 AM
I have at least three users that would like better integration with Inventor.

-Brian Cranston
Title: Re: Is Inventor 2015 supported by Keyshot?
Post by: mike.4life on December 16, 2014, 03:28:11 AM
Hope we can get more people to request the KS Plugin for AI if that is the case, can wait to see an Keyshot Plugin for Inventor.