Autodesk® Factory Design Suite Premium 2012
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This readme contains the latest information regarding the installation and known issues for Factory Design Suite Premium 2012. We strongly recommend that you read this entire document before you continue the installation. For reference, you should save this document to your hard drive or print a copy. If you experience problems not covered in this Readme, please visit the Autodesk Product Support web site.

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Suite Components

 

Autodesk Factory Design Suite Premium 2012 includes the following components:


 

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Supported Operating Systems

 

You can use this installation with the following operating systems below.


Service Pack 2 (SP2) and Service Pack 3 (SP3) of the following:


The following and Service Pack 1 (SP1) of the following:

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Installation Instructions

 

Note for Beta users: Please uninstall all the components from Autodesk Factory Design Suite 2012 Beta 1 and Beta 2, and any other editions for 2012 of the components listed in this suite before starting your installation of Autodesk Factory Design Suite 2012 Premium.

 

A consolidated installer is provided for the release. The "setup" program located therein is a dual-platform installer, so can be used on both x86 and x64 systems.

 

Important

 

Autodesk Navisworks 2012 Exporter plugin is in sub-component list under Navisworks Simulate. If you want it to work with AutoCAD Mechanical, AutoCAD Architecture, Showcase and 3Ds Max, these should be installed along with, or before, Navsiworks Manage.

 

As Autodesk Factory Design Utilities for AutoCAD 2012 is listed as a sub-component under AutoCAD Architecture 2012 and AutoCAD Mechanical 2012, we recommend that you install them at the same time. Otherwise, if one of these products is installed later, the Utilities may not be available. If this happens, you can use "Control Panel" -> "Programs and Features" -> "Add or Remove Features" of Autodesk Factory Design Utilities for AutoCAD 2012 to add one or both of these two features "Register to AutoCAD Architecture" and "Register to AutoCAD Mechanical".

 

If installing Vault 2012 client and add-ins as part of a suite, Vault add-ins may not be installed to all applications. To resolve the issue, select Uninstall/Change for the Vault client in Control Panel > Programs and Features, then select Add or Remove features in the Vault client install, and re-select the add-ins that need to be installed.

 

If you encounter the failure of uninstalling Utilities by Autodesk Factory Design Suite Uninstaller, Please use control panel to uninstall the Utilities.

 

There is a possibility that you will encounter a problem that results in no Factory Ribbon in AutoCAD Architecture 2012 and AutoCAD Mechanical 2012 after the installation, especially if you had previously installed one of the Autodesk Factory Design Suite 2012 Betas. You can reload the Ribbon by running CUILOAD command and loading FACTAPPLICATION from C:\Program Files\Autodesk\ApplicationPlugins\FactApplication.bundle\Contents\Resources.

 

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Known Issues

 

AutoCAD Architecture/AutoCAD Mechanical

 

Inventor

 

Factory Design Suite

 

Navisworks Simulate

 

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