More stuff you should know - InfraWorks Tutorial

- [Instructor] Before we go any further, there's just a few things I want to clarify about the installation requirements for the InfraWorks Inventor workflow. Now, obviously you need both InfraWorks and Inventor but they also have to be the same version. So you cannot work with InfraWorks 2021 and Inventor 2020. It also has to be Inventor Professional that we're working with. So Inventor Lite will not help us at all. But what you also need is if you open up Inventor and go over to the environment's tab, is something called the infrastructure part shape utility. It's an option on the environment's tab and this is what allows you to export parts, which are able to be consumed in InfraWorks. However, you may in certain cases find that this particular utility doesn't show up on the ribbon even though you've already installed it. And this happens mainly if you install InfraWorks first and then Inventor. And there are a few articles on the Autodesk knowledge base about things not being populated properly or you can't install it, or whatever it is there's a number of knowledge-based articles around this particular issue of the part shape utility, not showing up. So the first thing they tell you to do is uninstall InfraWorks, install Inventor and then re-install InfraWorks. But it takes a very long time. And if like me, you already had InfraWorks installed and couldn't get show up, then this is the workflow that I followed. So on your PC or whatever machine you're using you can search for something called the shape modeler.MSI. And it's usually in the local system where you extracted the InfraWorks installers. So wherever you extracted it to it's usually see Autodesk, Autodesk and InfraWorks whatever version it is. That's where it usually is. So what you can do for that is you can just make sure let's go to our settings, if for example, like me, you had the Autodesk Inventor infrastructure modular plugin already installed, but then you installed Inventor and it didn't show up, what you can do is you can just uninstall the infrastructure modeler plugin and re-install it. And you will find that at the MSI that I just talked about, so shape modeler.MSI. What we really want to do, and this is very important. Every time you uninstall this and re-install it restart your machine, otherwise you end up with all sorts of weird stuff going back in the background. So once that happened, when you head over to the environments tab in Inventor the infrastructure part shaped utilities button will show up. So through trial and error, what I found was you want the install date and time of your infrastructure modeler plugin to be after you install of Inventor itself. So that's all we need to do, is it elegant? No, but at least it's a way of getting things to work, if you ran into the same problems as I did.