Thank you for downloading Autodesk AutoCAD^® MEP 2014 Service Pack 1

This readme contains the latest information regarding the installation and use of the Service Pack. It is strongly recommended that you read the entire document before you apply the Service Pack to your product. For reference, you should save this document to your hard drive or print a copy.

Contents

• Who Should Install This Service Pack?
• Primary Issues Resolved by This Service Pack
• Problems Reported with the Customer Error Reporting Utility
• General AutoCAD MEP Updates
• General AutoCAD Architecture Updates
• General AutoCAD Updates
• General Installation Information
• Before You Begin
• About Windows Command Line Switches
• Installation Instructions
  • Apply This Service Pack to a Stand-Alone Installation
  • Apply This Service Pack Through a Local Network
  • Apply This Service Pack to a Network Administrative Image
  • Uninstall This Service Pack

You can apply this Service Pack to the following Autodesk products running on all supported operating systems and languages. Be sure to install the correct Service Pack for your software.

32-bit Product	Service Pack
Autodesk AutoCAD MEP 2014	AutoCAD_MEP_2014_SP1_32bit.exe

64-bit Product	Service Pack
Autodesk AutoCAD MEP 2014	AutoCAD_MEP_2014_SP1_64bit.exe

This Service Pack can be applied to AutoCAD MEP 2014 installed as a standalone application as well as AutoCAD MEP 2014 installed from the following Autodesk Design Suites.

• Autodesk Building Design Suite 2014

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• Problems Reported with the Customer Error Reporting Utility
• General AutoCAD MEP Updates
• General AutoCAD Architecture Updates
• General AutoCAD Updates

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 Service Pack 1

Project Navigator

• Closing AutoCAD Architecture while the Project Navigator is open may cause occasional crashes.

Object Viewer

• Crash when saving an image in the object viewer while the steering wheel is enabled.

Schedule Table

• Modifying text height appearance in schedule tables results to a crash.

AutoCAD Service Pack 1

Block

• Occasional crashes related to operating blocks with the Lookup parameter.

Autodesk 360

• Crashes when trying to sign out of Autodesk 360 from inside AutoCAD if you have previously uninstalled Autodesk 360.

Command Line

• Occasional crashes when clicking or dragging the command line window in Windows 8.

Materials

• Occasional crashes when opening a drawing that contains certain customized materials.

Plot

• Occasional crashes when plotting a drawing with unreconciled layers.

General

• Occasional crashes when switching drawings or layouts.
• Occasional crashes when editing with grips or cycling grips.
• Occasional crashes when exiting AutoCAD.
• Occasional crashes when zooming or panning in a drawing that contains a locked viewport.

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The following AutoCAD MEP issues have been fixed:

Cable Tray

• Sometimes, when the global profile is active, the add grips icon (+ icon) on cable trays appear too far away.

MvPart

• The part size of some special MvParts do not update correctly when you change their “L” values.

Schedule

• Some schedule tables do not indicate that they are “out-of-date” when you add duct property sets while AECPSDAUTOATTACH is OFF.

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The following AutoCAD Architecture issues have been fixed:

Boolean Operation

• Some objects may disappear after performing Boolean operations such as cleaning up, inserting a window, modifying a roof line, and so on.

Corner Window

• Elevations or sections of corner window styles may display incorrectly.

Elevation Label

• Elevation labels may not reflect the current elevation location. As a work around, use AecElevationLabelClearCache command to fix the elevation labels with incorrect elevation location values.

Object Viewer

• Some visual styles do not work in the object viewer.

Section

• Generated sections may not display all lines.

WebDAV

• Failure to create projects on WebDAV servers.

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The following AutoCAD issues have been fixed:

3D Modeling

• Cannot read specific solid modeling information after saving a drawing to 2004-based version of AutoCAD and reopening it in a 2014-based version.

Block

• The uniform scale check box sometimes displays incorrectly as unchecked.

DGN Support

• Issues with copying and pasting DGN linetypes in a drawing.

Document Switching

• The file name is not displayed in the File tab on Turkish-language operating systems.

File Navigation

• The application sometimes stops responding when the file selection dropdown list is being used on Windows 8 with a smart phone device plugged in.

Plot

• Wipeout doesn't work when Lines Merge is turned on during plot.
• Lines near a Wipeout boundary don't plot.
• Some images don't plot when the visual style is set to Realistic and software acceleration is turned on.
• In some cases, DWG files containing Raster images, PDF or DWF underlays don't plot correctly when publishing to DWFx.

Point Cloud

• A memory leak issue.
• Some point cloud scan files are not displayed correctly.
• An API issue might cause the colors set by normalization and intensity to change after cropping.

Selection

• SELECTIONPREVIEW is incorrectly set to 0 during drawing certain editing and zooming operations.

General

• In certain cases, external commands in an acad.pgp file are not executed correctly.
• There's a performance issue with drawings saved as AutoCAD 2010 drawings.
• Changing the position of multiple blocks via the Properties palette is not correctly applied to all selected blocks.
• In certain cases, drawing files with invalid fonts cause AutoCAD to freeze on startup.
• AutoCAD crashes when a custom entity contains embedded AcDb3dSolid.

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• Before You Begin
• About Windows Command Line Switches

Note: Autodesk 360 (AdSync) patch will automatically be installed with the AutoCAD MEP Service Pack.

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As you prepare to install this Service Pack, keep the following in mind:

Back Up Custom Files

It is recommended that you back up all custom CUIX, MNR, and MNL files before you apply this Service Pack.

Administrative Privileges

During installation, you will be prompted for the original installation media or a network image. To apply this Service Pack, you must have administrative privileges to install and uninstall products.

Network Deployment

Administrators can deploy this Service Pack over a network using the Deployment Wizard.

About Your Product

After you install the Service Pack, updated product information displays in the About dialog box.

Reboot

After you install this Service Pack, it is recommended to reboot your system even if not prompted.

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The following Microsoft Windows command line switches are built into this Service Pack:

• /e – Extracts the MSP file from the Service Pack executable file.
• /q – Suppresses the completion message after the Service Pack is applied. This is useful if you use a script or batch file to apply this Service Pack to multiple computers.

Instructions about how to use the /e command line switch are included in the installation procedures that follow.

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• Apply This Service Pack to a Stand-Alone Installation
• Apply This Service Pack Through a Local Network
• Apply This Service Pack to a New Network Administrative Image
• Uninstall This Service Pack

Follow these instructions to install this Service Pack on a single computer.

1. Download this Service Pack and save it to any folder.
2. If required, insert the product media (for example, the AutoCAD installation disc).
3. Find the folder where you saved the Service Pack and double-click the executable (EXE) file.

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Follow these instructions to install this Service Pack on multiple computers using your local network.

1. Download this Service Pack and save it to any shared folder on your local network.
2. Find the shared folder where you saved the Service Pack, and double-click the executable (EXE) file.

Note: Installation through your local network using the CAD Manager Control Utility is not supported for this Service Pack.

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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 Service Pack.

In all cases, append this Service Pack to the deployment. The only time it is appropriate to merge the Service Pack is if you intend to distribute the deployment through a group policy object.

The patch (Service Pack) file that you download contains an MSP (Microsoft Patch) file, which you extract from the executable file using the /e (extract) switch.

1. From the Autodesk Product Support website, download the Service Pack EXE file to your local computer.
2. On the Start menu (Windows), click Run. Enter the following information and click OK.

   <local_drive:>\<patch_name> /e <local_drive:>\< patch_name>.msp

3. Insert the Autodesk media and launch setup.exe.
4. Select Create Deployments. Click Next.
5. On the Begin Deployment page, in the Specify the Deployment Location box, enter the shared network location where you would like to create an administrative image, or click Browse to find a location. Users will install the product from this location.
6. In the Specify a Deployment Name box, enter the name for your deployment.
7. Continue through the Deployment wizard, open and configure the deployment in the product configuration page, click Add to find the Service Pack extracted in Step 2. Notice that the Service Pack has been added in the Include Service Pack(s) from Local Drive or Local Network box. Close and return to the product list.
8. Follow the instructions in the Deployment wizard to complete the Service Pack deployment.

Note: When the AutoCAD MEP Service Pack is included in a deployment, the deployment will install the Service Pack without the update files for Autodesk 360.

Note: The extraction of MSP from the service pack executable requires VC++ runtime redistributable 2010. Please make sure it is installed before extracting the MSP file.

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Windows XP

1. From the Start menu (Windows), click Settings > Control Panel.
2. In Control Panel, click Add or Remove Programs.
3. In the Add or Remove Programs window, select the Show Updates option.
4. Find the appropriate Service Pack in the list of programs. Click Remove.

Windows 7 / Windows 8

1. Start Control Panel.
2. Click Programs.
3. Click Programs and Features.
4. In the Programs and Features window, in the left pane, click View Installed Updates.
5. Find the appropriate Service Pack in the list of updates. Click Uninstall.

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We want to express our appreciation to all our customers who identified these issues and reported them to us. Their reports gave us the opportunity to improve the product for everyone's benefit. We also thank you for your continued business, and for your feedback regarding this release.

Respectfully,

The Autodesk AutoCAD MEP Product Team

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