Migration FAQ's

Question: When migrating from R2008, do you need to migrate to intermediate releases?

Yes and no. Consider the various factors: Autodesk Inventor is only supported and tested 3 releases back.

• Migrating R2008 to R2010 to R2014 should be fine.
• Migrating R2008 to releases R2014 and after could be problematic

Other factors can increase the risk when:

• Older releases did not have style libraries. Styles were stored in the files themselves.
• Older releases stored View Reps in private IDV.
• Older releases used Access database to store Content Center files.

Question: Do I need to set the "Prompt to save for migration" option on in Application Options dialog?

• Only when you want to migrate all files immediately and want to have a dialog prompt you to save files.

• If you do not need to migrate all files immediately, do not check this option in the Application options.

  • This is important for Vault and Data Management solutions in general to avoid unnecessary revisions.
  • This option is ignored and does not lead to file being made dirty when "Prompt to save for migration" application option is unchecked (default setting).

• More information in here.

Question: Will my sheet metal bend tables survive when I migrate my parts from R2009 to releases R2014 and after?

• Inventor 2009 introduced a new sheet metal style library ─Bend tables and K-factor unfold methods of pre-R2009 parts migrate transparently

• You do not need to migrate the Flat Pattern to take advantage of new features such as editing flat pattern, cosmetic centerlines, bend order annotation etc.

  Note: deleting and recreating the flat has a negative impact on existing drawing views.