19 Feb 2025

.NET 8 is now available for Inventor on Design Automation

Switching to .NET 8 was a big task for all desktop products that started supporting it in their 2025 release and not everything managed to catch up with all the changes before those desktop products got released.
It also effected 3rd party developers - as also mentioned here.

As a result, its support in the case of Design Automation for Inventor delayed quite a bit. 

But now it's here, so you don't have to test with .NET 8 locally then switch to .NET Framework 4.8 so that the same code can run on Design Automation.

In the case of the 2025 engine there are now two separate versions you can select: 
Autodesk.Inventor.2025_Net8, which supports .NET 8
Autodesk.Inventor.2025, which supports .NET Framework 4.8

Currently, the plans are that the next engine version will only support .NET 8.

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