Article - CS348996

Inventor CAD worker fails to start if the license type is changed from a Multi-User server license to a Single-User based license with an Autodesk account in Windchill PDMLink

Modified: 28-Jul-2025   


Applies To

  • Creo View Adapters 5.1 to 10.1
  • Windchill PDMLink 11.1 to 13.0
  • Autodesk Inventor
  • Windchill Visualization Services (WVS)

Description

  • Inventor.exe starts up and almost immediately exits when the worker is started.
  • Inventor Worker fails to start
  • Switching the Inventor license type from Multi-user license connected to a License server to a Single-User License connected to an Autodesk account causing the worker fail to start
  • Creo View Adapter for Inventor stops working with following error in worker log if the license type of Inventor is changed from a Multi-User server license to a Single-User based license with an Autodesk account
Launching Inventor Session  : 
inventor2pv Warning: Failed to Create a new Inventor Application Instance
inventor2pv Error:70000: Failed to start inventor session

or

inventor2pv Error:70029: Failed to Create a new Inventor Application Instance, error[80080005]
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