Installing Inventor 2012 Pro and Inventor Publisher on Windows 8

Want to see this?

Go to the setup folder and open this file (using Notepad):

In the file find (CTRL + F):

#============= DOTNET Begin ===============

Under it you will see:

Copy it and paste it here:

Save the file (CTRL+S) and your done.
(Doing this may or may not violate various agreements you have made or will make with Autodesk of which I may have just taught you how to do but do not endorse).

You should already have .NET installed with Windows 8 by default, so no harm done.  This should also work for other Autodesk products.

Installing Inventor 2012 Pro on Windows 8 developers edition

The program fails installation, as you may have guessed already. So this is a small guide to get through the installation on a 64-bit machine running Windows 8 developers edition.

Error 1:
Crashes upon selecting install after launching the setup program.
Solution - select "Install Tools & Utilities" then agree to the licence agreement and press next.  Press back then back again to get back to the screen with the install button once again.  Select install.

Error 2:
Fails to install Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable (x86) on a 64 bit machine.
Solution - manually install it by going to the log file that is displayed when the setup fails - this appears as a link.  Look at the bottom of the text file and it will show the directory of the install file along with other info about the installation failure. Install Microsoft Visual C++ 2008 SP1 Redistributable (x86) by going to the directory shown in the log and installing it.

Error 3:
Install fails when attempting to install Design Review 2012.
Solution - Uncheck the checkbox for Design Review 2012, hope you didn't need it.