Notice to Autodesk Alias Customers: DL19319648 Released

In our continuing efforts to provide high quality products, Autodesk has released update DL19319648 which addresses multiple issues(see Summary).

This document 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 the update to your product. For reference, you should save this document to your hard drive or print a copy.

Contents

- Description of the Issue
- System Requirements
- Installation Instructions

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#### Description of the Fixes

- Brush performance and stability has been improved when symmetry or cursor outline is on.
- Some Catia export cases performed slowly due to an issue with the creation of loop of boundaries curves of trimmed surfaces. Improvements in loop creation have increased performance.
- The Mesh Curves->Mesh Intersect tool now correctly intersects the mesh with only the trimmed (visible) portion of a trim surface. Previously the tool had been intersecting the mesh with the entire (original) surface resulting in curves that appeared to "run-off" the trim surface.
- Canvas Layer editor thumbnail refreshes have been reduced when manipulating layer attributes.
- Fixes a crash on retrieval of a wire file while the Hotkey editor is opened.
- QuicktimeVR output now works when the source input is a software render.
- All Autodesk plug-ins installed from the Autodesk Exchange Store now appear in the Plug-in Manager under a single heading ("Autodesk Exchange Apps") instead of each plug-in appearing under its own heading.
- The new 2013 feature of window associations (i.e., Shift-snapping one window to another) was not working for Categories, Color, or Shader windows. This has been fixes. Those windows now can be associated with each other or other windows.
- Fixes a crash caused by the presence of the geometric shader in the model, which in turn references a mesh, where the mesh type was not known to the serializer used in the translation. By registering the geometry packet file types, the serializer is able to find the mesh type and serialize the geometric shader successfully.
- Fixes a crash seen when declining a File->New with an active brush.
- Fixes a problem where the NT browser becomes mixed up in the window ordering and sometimes will disappear and reappear when the Alias window is selected again.
- Exported EDF files now hardware shade correctly in ICEM.
- Reference objects are now drawn with the correct transparency value as specified in the control panel, and overlapping objects are no longer always drawn using a fully opaque transparency value.
- Fixes a problem where the Reference Manager disappears when you select to view only the File view.

This update should only be applied to systems directly affected by the issue described above, as this was the only issue this update was created to address.

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#### System Requirements

For application of this update, your system must have one of the following products installed:

- Autodesk® Alias® Automotive 2013
- Autodesk® Alias® Design 2013
- Autodesk® Alias® Surface 2013

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#### Installation Instructions

This update is available in 32bit and 64bit versions (downloaded together as one bundle) and is only applicable to Autodesk Alias 2013. Once installed, it will appear as an update under Add/Remove Programs and can be uninstalled from there.

1. Download update DL19319648.zip for Autodesk Alias 2013.
2. Extract DL19319648_32-bit.msp and DL19319648_64-bit.msp from the zip file downloaded in step 1.
3. Double click on the appropriate .msp file (32-bit or 64-bit) to install this update on each system running Autodesk Alias2013.
4. Choose Next to begin the install...
5. Once finished you'll receive the Autodesk Alias 2013 Setup dialog box stating that the update has been successfully applied.
6. Click Finish to complete the installation and exit the dialog box.

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#### Thank You...

We thank all our customers who identified this issue and reported it to us. These reports give us the opportunity to improve the product and provide you with the best solution in mechanical design. We also thank you for your continued business and for feedback regarding the content of this update release.

Respectfully,

Autodesk Alias Product Team

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