Hagerman Blog

Have you encountered the “Invalid Serial Number” message? We frequently see support cases opened for this issue. It usually appears when customers upgrade or switch to subscription and need to install a new product. Autodesk products are typically activated by entering the serial number and product key. However, doing this now may cause the following error and stop you from completing the process.

For those using categories and assignment rules in Vault, you may have found yourself attempting to find a more detailed way of utilizing the assignment rules.  You can always utilize the file extension for assigning categories, but what if files with the same extension can exist in different categories?  You could always search on another file property, but very often they don’t exist yet and going through the process of assigning them is often more work than assigning the categories.

With 2019.1 and beyond, the Inventor Nesting tool can now interact with many new objects, beyond just Sheet metal components. Standard Part files can now be loaded into the nesting interface as well as Neutral format files (STL, STEP, etc.) that have planar faces, as well as composites that have a planar face.