Licensing FAQs

To improve the performance of Inventor refer the following page on the Autodesk website: http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/item?siteID=123112&id=5310997&linkID=4183228

Ensure that the Read Only setting is unchecked in MDTools and MDTools Cavity Library installation folders.

Manually open the port UDP 6001.

1. Click Control Panel > Windows Firewall > Exceptions.
2. Add port UDP 6001 on the machine that has the MDTools License Server.
3. Add Inventor to the list of Exceptions on the client machine.

The cause can be the stress analysis module of Inventor. Try and unload this add-in.

To ensure that the issue does not occur uncheck the Show extension for known files types in the Folder option.

1. Click Windows Explorer > Tools > Folder Options
2. Uncheck Hide extensions for known file types.

Disable Simulation Modules from the Inventor Add-ins.

When cavities with the same diameter are connected to the center of another cavity, and convert manifold is selected, the cavity disappears. This is a bug in Autodesk Inventor.
To avoid this, slightly increasing the depth of the connecting cavities.

Use the MDTools Shrink Wrap option to hide Plugs and Angled holes in the manifold 2d drawing.