Client Side Settings

The Client Side specific settings are stored in the Inventorsettings.ini file in the Client Side installation directory.

The significance of each key, under different sections is as follows:

This page discusses:

[Server] Section

The settings file has the following default settings for the server: 

[SERVER]
address=server url
clientName=localhost
appletloglevel=5

Important: The server flags address, clientName, and appletloglevel have been deprecated.

[Client] Section

The settings file has the following default settings for the client: 

[CLIENT]
debugflag=false
browserwindowname=Matrix10 Applications
supportattachments=false
deletelocalderivedoutputfiles=false
clientloglevel=1
helpfilepath=server url/docv6/DShomepage_English.htm
searchlimit=100
pagination=false
pagesize=35
language=English

where,

String Description
debugflag This is a Boolean debug setting. This can have values true or false. If set to true a log file, Inventor.log is created in your User Profile directory. This directory contains the log for all the commands executed which can be used for troubleshooting.
browserwindowname This flag has been deprecated.
deletelocalderivedoutputfiles This is a Boolean setting. It's default value is true. This Boolean variable is applicable only when the user selects Delete Local Files in the Checkin page. If the user sets this variable to true and during Checkin, selects the Delete Local Files checkbox in the Checkin page, then the derived output files created locally are deleted. If the user wants to preserve the derived output files then you can set this Boolean variable as false, that is, if the user selects the Delete Local Files check box (in Checkin page) and sets this Boolean variable to false, then the locally created derived output files will not get deleted and only the CAD Model files will be deleted.
clientloglevel Used to set level of the logs being generated.

Default value is 1. Detailed Logs can be achieved by setting the value to 7.

supportattachments This setting is false by default. Set this setting to true to enable attachments support. Checking in or Checking out a part, assembly or drawing which has a linked attachment, checks out the attachment with the component.
Note: The part, assembly, or drawing which has a linked attachment must be present in same directory.
helpfilepath The help url path installed on the server
searchlimit The upper limit of the number of search results that should appear when search is performed on Open / Insert dialogs.
pagination This string governs if pagination should be available.
pagesize The number of pages that should be available.
Language The default language of the application. By default, the language is English.

To configure it to other languages below should be the setting in InventorSettings.ini in place of language=English

language=French

language=German

language=Italian

language=Japanese

language=Simplified_Chinese