Factory Asset Publishing Error 'The template file needs to be migrated'

Joanna Gryszka

Issue:

Publishing a Factory Asset in Inventor fails while trying to publish the 2D drawing with this error:

Cause:

The DWG template in the Project's template folder needs to be migrated.
Factory Design Utilities installation problem.

Solution:

Open your Project's drawing templates and save to migrate them to the current Inventor version.

For example in Factory Design 2024:

Open and save the ANSI(in).dwg in the default Inventor template location in C:\Users\Public\Documents\Autodesk\Inventor 2024\Templates\en-US\English

2. If this doesn't resolve the error, uninstall and reinstall the Factory Design Utilities:

When publishing a Factory 2D asset from Inventor, the following two errors were received

About the Author

Manufacturing Technical Support Specialist<br><br>Joanna has over eight years of experience working with Autodesk products. She started supporting core AutoCAD and network installations of all Autodesk products. She now has five years of experience with Inventor. <br> She graduated from Mechanical Engineering and has been providing solutions to clients and dedicating her knowledge to the Solution Center since then.
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