Export fails using InventorServer

Issue

An inventor file is converted with powerJobs Processor using the InventorServer into one of the following formats: BMP, GIF, JPEG, PNG, TIFF and the job fails with following error:

Failed to export document ***** to *****.bmp! Reason: The parameter is incorrect. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80070057 (E_INVALIDARG))

The InventorServer application does not support converting files to following formats:

• JPEG
• BMP
• GIF
• TIFF
• PNG.

Solution

For these conversion you need to use Inventor instead of InventorServer. To change this follow this steps:

1. On the machine on which powerJobs Processor is installed navigate to "C:\ProgramData\coolOrange\powerJobs\Jobs"
2. Open your job's script file
3. Search for the Open-Document cmdlet:

   1. Open-Document -LocalFile $file.LocalPath ...

4. Change it to use Inventor as application:

   1. Open-Document -LocalFile $file.LocalPath -Application "Inventor"

See Also

• Possible file conversions