Thank you for downloading AutoCAD® MEP 2011 Update 1.
This readme contains the latest information regarding the installation and use of this update. It is strongly recommended that you read this entire document before you apply this update to your product. For reference, you should save this document to your hard drive or print a copy.
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You can apply this update to the following Autodesk products running on all supported operating systems and languages. Be sure to install the correct update for your software.
You can also use Communication Center to install the Live Update Maintenance Patches, which will automatically show the correct update for your product.
32-bit Product |
Update |
| AutoCAD MEP 2011 | AutoCAD_MEP_2011_Update_1.exe |
64-bit Product |
Update |
| AutoCAD MEP 2011 | AutoCAD_MEP_2011_Update_1_x64.exe |
You can use this update with the following operating systems below.
Service Pack 2 (SP2) and Service Pack 3 (SP3) of the following:
Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Service Pack 2 (SP2) of the following:
The following Windows 7 operating systems:
When you apply this update while running AutoCAD MEP, it is recommended that you do not click the "Automatically close applications and attempt to restart them after setup is complete" option. Instead, close AutoCAD MEP manually, and press "Ignore" at the prompt. It is also recommended that you reboot your system after installing the update.
As a result of detailed information from customers who used the Customer Error Reporting Utility, a number of problems were identified and fixed. Updates have been made in the following commands and features:
AutoCAD Architecture
- Drawing Management
- Grips
AutoCAD
- 2D Display
- 3D Navigation Tools
- Annotation Scaling
- Attributes
- Customize User Interface (CUI)
- DGN Support
- External References
- File Navigation
- General UI
- Graphic System
- Hatch
- Inquiry
- Image
- Layer
- Open/Save
- Other
- Parametric Drawing
- Partial Open
- PDF Export
- Ribbon
- Selection
- Selection Highlighting
The following AutoCAD MEP defects have been fixed:
3D DWF
- An exported 3D DWF file may be significantly larger. Toggle the new system variable, 3DDWFEDGE, to control this.
Auto Layout
- The connection is broken when laying ducts with eccentric transitions and a large difference in duct size.
Display
- Hidden duct connectors are displayed when brought in as an external reference.
- Hidden lines of duct objects sometimes don't display as expected.
Duct
- The elevation of a custom elbow may inadvertently change when the elbow is modified.
- AutoCAD MEP crashes when the Duct Fitting Modify dialog is invoked in rollup mode.
Electrical
- Sometimes, the Circuit Manager shows duplicate panels.
- When multiple users simultaneously save drawings to an Electrical Project Database, AutoCAD MEP may crash.
Labels
- Sometimes, labels do not display data.
Multi-View Parts
- Exploding certain multi-view parts to multi-view blocks may transform the contained geometry.
- For certain custom multi-view parts with flange connector, the flange is not created as expected.
- Certain special multi-view parts display incorrectly in metric drawings.
Pipe
- Sometimes, drawing parallel pipes may cause AutoCAD MEP to hang.
- Sometimes, after serveral routing segments, a pipe segment gets offset from the cursor.
Plumbing
- Sometimes, there is a gap between the plumbing riser symbol and a branch.
Schedule
- Adding a panel schedule after adding a panel causes AutoCAD MEP to crash.
- The value of circuit length in a schedule table is sometimes wrong when brought in as an external reference.
- The area calculated in schedule tables is sometimes incorrect.
- Opening a drawing containing an electrical panel schedule may cause AutoCAD MEP to crash.
Miscellaneous
- Dialux 2011 cannot be installed on a 64 bit operating system.
- Sometimes, small windows cannot be exported to gbxml format.
The following AutoCAD Architecture defects have been fixed:
3D Modeling
- Components whose display has been turned off are displayed on converting an AEC object to a 3D Solid.
Curtain Walls
- Custom model components in a curtain wall may display incorrect material assignments in different display configurations in 3D views.
Dimensions
- Associative dimensions may not update when walls are moved.
Drawing Management
- Redefining an existing model space view causes AutoCAD Architecture to crash.
General UI
- AutoCAD Architecture may crash on launching the Style Manager.
Help
- Third party applications based on AutoCAD Architecture cannot access their help files through the application.
IFC
- Some roofs may change position after executing the command IFCEXPORT.
Materials
- The MATERIALLIST command reports the volume of only the first object in a multiple selection.
Modify
- AutoCAD Architecture may crash while trimming entities.
Performance
- Sometimes, memory usage increases when switching back and forth between the tabs of the Properties Palette.
Renovation
- A wall with display overrides displays incorrectly when modified in the renovation mode.
Sections
- Creating a horizontal section may cause AutoCAD Architecture to crash.
Slabs
- No style information is available in the Properties Palette for a slab created by applying the properties of the Slab tool to linework and walls.
Walls
- Trimming a wall may cause doors and windows in the wall to move or disappear.
- Walls that clean up correctly in a previous version may not clean up correctly in AutoCAD Architecture 2011.
- Wall cleanup EIP functions such as Merge, Subtract, Fillet, and Chamfer do not work in a custom UCS.
The following AutoCAD defects have been fixed:
.NET API
- .NET applications built for AutoCAD 2010 may not run on AutoCAD 2011.
- When opening multiple drawings, the minimize and maximize buttons may not always be visible.
- You may experience a random exception when loading custom ARX applications.
2D Display
- When using Software Acceleration, AutoCAD may become unstable.
3D Cache
- When VSINTERSECTIONEDGES is set to 0, camera preview can be extremely slow.
3D Modeling
- AutoCAD may become unstable when stretching along the Z axis of the Gizmo.
- Using the Gizmo grip on a 3D model may not work correctly from the right-click menu.
3D Navigation Tools
- Navigation Bar tooltips may cause AutoCAD to become unstable when switching between drawings.
- Clicking on the "X" to close AutoCAD may fail if the drawing is maximized, and both the ViewCube® and SteeringWheel® are enabled.
- Orbiting 3D models does not degrade when Adaptive Degradation is checked in the Performance Tuner and uses the 3D Connexion device
- AutoCAD may become unstable when using the Look tool in the WHEEL command.
- AutoCAD may become unstable when using 3D Orbit in degradation mode with 3Dconnexion devices.
- AutoCAD may become unstable when using the Walk tool in the SteeringWheel feature with degradation and when FPS is set to a limit of 30.
Annotation Scaling
- Drawings containing 100 or more annotation scales cannot be reset.
ARX
- Third party applications may fail when using "removeCmd" in custom ARX applications.
Attributes
- Multiline attributes in a dynamic block created in AutoCAD 2011 may not display in AutoCAD 2010.
Command Line
- With Dynamic Mode set to "0" you may not be able to input Japanese or Chinese characters at the command line.
Customer Involvement Program
- AutoCAD fails to start due to Customer Involvement Program on Windows 7 workstations with Windows 2008 Server on the same subnet.
CUI
- When an Enterprise menu is loaded, the Workspace control in the CUI Editor may be grayed out.
- Unable to copy and paste Toolbar Controls in the CUI Editor.
- When switching profiles that point to a CUIx file that cannot be found, AutoCAD may become unstable.
- When using "^P" in a macro, the MENUECHO is not displayed properly.
Digitizer
- AutoCAD will display a CER (Customer Error Report) dialog when exiting AutoCAD with a digitizer configured.
DGN Support
- DGNIMPORT command may not work with the option to ignore external references.
Dimensions
- Some AutoCAD Mechanical objects cannot be selected after being inserted as a block and exploded.
- AutoCAD may become unstable when using eTransmit on drawings containing multileaders.
Display Acceleration
- AutoCAD may become unstable when a password protected screen saver displays on the screen.
Display Drivers
- May have issues updating the Graphics Card drivers on Windows Vista or Windows 7.
- Some display drivers may show up as certified even though they were not certified.
DWG
- WBLOCK may be unable to save the drawing to the AutoCAD 2000 file format for "DWG" and "DXF"
External References
- AutoCAD may become unstable when an External Reference is reloaded after XOPEN, EDIT, or SAVE.
Graphic System
- AutoCAD may become unstable when opening multiple drawings in the same session when running out of video memory.
- AutoCAD may become unstable when opening large amounts of drawings.
Hatch
- Hatch may not display properly when dynamic blocks are part of the boundary and live preview is enabled.
- Some hatch objects on a newly thawed layer may require a "REGEN" to display.
- Some custom hatch patterns may not display in the Ribbon Panel.
- AutoCAD may become unstable when using grips to select hatches in some drawings.
- AutoCAD may become unstable when editing annotative hatch through the Ribbon.
- Hatch Scale may revert to 1 when setting transparency and angle on a hatch pattern on a 64-bit operating system.
Help
- Welcome Screen Videos may not play on 64-bit operating systems.
- Searching Online Help may be slow.
Image
- AutoCAD may become unstable when plotting a drawing with plot transparency set to "On".
Layer
- Changing layers transparently from the Ribbon will not update to the new layer when you complete the command.
- Layer properties cannot be changed transparently from the Ribbon.
- When a large amount of layers exist in the layer dialog, changing them in the Ribbon layer control will not update the layer dialog.
- After setting a new layer current, focus is set to the "Name" Column.
Licensing
- Cascading license can't be checked out if one of the distributed server machines doesn't exist on the network.
- AutoCAD cannot get a license from the distributed server when one of servers is stopped.
Materials
- Protein Materials values created on a 64-bit operating system will not work on a 32-bit operating system.
- When FBXEXPORT is using the default settings, de-selecting the Insert as Block option in FBXIMPORT results in nothing being imported.
MText
- Mtext Paragraph spacing cannot be removed.
- Text in AutoCAD Mechanical-created Fit dimension can change unexpectedly after DDEDIT.
Object DBX
- Unable to export multi-line attribute values with Object DBX
OLE (Object Linking & Embedding)
- Drawings with OLE objects saved as a DXF file no longer contain OLE options.
Open/Save
- AutoCAD may become unstable when using undo on large drawings.
Other
- FBX files imported from Autodesk 3ds Max will not import unless materials are unchecked.
- AutoCAD may become unstable if a drawing REGEN occurs after editing a block.
- AutoCAD will not take advantage of the 3 gigabyte switch when enabled on a 32-bit operating system.
- Color book values may not display properly in AutoCAD
- Some PGP aliases may not function in AutoCAD LT.
Partial Open
- AutoCAD may become unstable when SDI (Single Document Interface) is set to 1, while editing drawings with OPENPARTIAL are set to 1.
PDF Export
- Adobe Reader may display a warning message "Cannot find or create the font ArialMT" when opening PDF files created in AutoCAD
Publish
- AutoCAD may become unstable when publishing large drawings to PDF.
Raster Design
- AutoCAD may become unstable when inserting some BMP images.
- Saving with ISAVE, ISAVEAS, and ISAVE again may cause an error message that you cannot save the file.
Ribbon
- AutoCAD may become unstable in a side-by-side install if the files tab path points to the Install Directory of AutoCAD 2010.
- AutoCAD may become unstable when Regional and Language Options are set to Turkish language.
- Ribbon Fold Panels cannot be transferred in the CUI Editor.
- AutoCAD may become unstable if you have a "." in your menugroup name.
- While in a command, changing the workspace from the Quick Access toolbar will not work.
- Loading custom toolbars from the Ribbon may fail.
Section & Flatten
- All cut-away geometry in sectionplane may not display properly when selecting "Show Cut-away Geometry".
Selection Highlighting
- Selection Cycling displays when none should be visible.
- AutoCAD may become unstable when holding control and hovering over intersections of lines.
- Changing the Selection Cycling toggle from "Off" to "On" and then quitting AutoCAD may cause you to receive an error report.
- AutoCAD may become unstable after using the "CapturePreviewImage" method
Snaps
- Crosshairs do not extend across the screen when set to 100% in isometric snap style.
Visual Lisp
- Visual Lisp may display an error message when using ads_defun and ads_regfunc calls in AcApp.arx.
- When using the lisp function, "vl-directory-files" may cause AutoCAD to become unstable if the directory path is long.
As you prepare to install this update, keep the following in mind:
Back Up Custom Files
It is recommended that you back up all custom CUI, MNR, and MNL files before you apply this update.
Administrative Privileges
During installation, you will be prompted for the original installation media or a network image. In order to apply this update, you must have administrative privileges to install and uninstall products.
Network Deployment
Administrators can deploy this update over a network using the Deployment wizard.
About Your Product
After you install, product information displays in the About dialog box.
Reboot
After you install, be sure to reboot your system even if not prompted.
Known Limitations
- This update cannot be merged into a deployment.
- On Windows 7, there may be a delay in response when uninstalling this update. Please wait until you are prompted to select the install folder. Uninstallation will continue once you point to AutoCAD MEP's install folder.
The following Microsoft Windows command line switches are built into this update:
Instructions about how to use the /e command line switch are included in the installation procedures that follow.
Follow these instructions to install this update on a single computer.
You can use InfoCenter to apply this update through your local network. Detailed instructions on how to set up patching through your local network are listed in the InfoCenter tab of the CAD Manager Control Utility Help.
Note: You can install the CAD Manager Control Utility from the product installation media. Select Install Tools and Utilities and then select Autodesk CAD Manager Tools.
The following distribution method applies only to administrative images created with the Deployment wizard. After you complete these procedures, subsequent deployments of your product will include this update.
In all cases, append this update to the deployment. The only time it is appropriate to merge an update is if you intend to distribute the deployment through a group policy object.
The patch (update) file that you download contains an MSP (Microsoft Patch) file, which you extract from the executable file using the /e (extract) switch. For an example of the syntax, see step 2, below.
<local_drive:>\<patch_name> /e <local_drive:>\< patch_name>.msp
Note: This update cannot be uninstalled when the product is installed from a deployment (also called an administrative image) with a merged update.
Windows XP
Windows Vista and Windows 7
This service pack updates the following files:
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