Switching Languages in Autodesk Inventor and LT

When Inventor is launched by a language-specific Start menu shortcut, that becomes Inventor’s current language. Launching Inventor from the generic Desktop Shortcut or by launching an Inventor file from Windows Explorer will always start Inventor in this current language. To set another language current, launch Inventor using that language’s specific Start Menu shortcut. If the desired language is not available in the Start menu, download and install the language pack from http://www.autodesk.com/inventor-languagepacks

You can also:

• Choose a Start menu shortcut for each language you have installed to override the last run, or current language or
• Choose an optionally created Desktop shortcut for each language you have installed to override the last run language.

You can modify the Target line of the Inventor launch icon to always launch in a specific language by adding a switch (/language) and 3 letter language code. For example, to set the default language to French, configure the Target line as follows:

"C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor 2016\bin\ Inventor.exe" /language=FRA

"C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor LT 2016\bin\ Inventor.exe" /language=FRA

To specify a language at the command line, you must first have downloaded and installed that language pack from http://www.autodesk.com/inventor-languagepacks

The 3 letter language codes for all languages are:

English - ENU

German - DEU

French - FRA

Italian - ITA

Spanish - ESP

Japanese - JAP

Simplified Chinese - CHS

Traditional Chinese - CHT

Korean - KOR

Czech - CSY

Polish - POL

Russian - RUS

Brazilian Portuguese - PTB