Autodesk Factory Design
Utilities 2014 Service Packs 1
Nov. 2013
Release Notes - Readme file
Autodesk, Inc.
In a continuing effort to provide high quality products, Autodesk Factory Design Utilities
2014 Service Packs 1 addresses a variety of issues. This document describes the addressed issues, as well as additional known issues.
The SP1 includes Service packs for Autodesk Factory Design Utilities for Inventor 2014 , Autodesk Factory Design Utilities for AutoCAD 2014 and Autodesk Factory Design Utilities for Navisworks 2014. They apply to every edition of Autodesk Factory Design Suite 2014; Standard, Premium and Ultimate. The service packs can be applied to any language version of Autodesk Factory Design Suite 2014.
Notes About Installation
Summary of Issues Addressed by these Service Packs
Factory Design Utilities for Inventor 2014
Factory Design Utilities for AutoCAD 2014
Factory Design Utilities for Navisworks 2014
Known Issues
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- This Service Packs 1 includes all released hotfixes for Autodesk Factory Design Utilities 2014, so no prerequisite installations are required.
- Pre-installing Autodesk Navisworks 2014 Service Pack 1 is required before applying this Autodesk Factory Design Utilities 2014 Service Packs 1.
- We recommend you install all available updates for the applications involved in the Factory Design Suite 2014.
- The licensing error may be encuontered while launching 2014 products, after uninstalling a Service Pack of one of the 2014 products invovled in the Factory Design Suite 2014. Please refer to TS 22241522 for the solution.
You must have at least one of the following applications installed on your machine:
- Autodesk Inventor 2014 with Factory Design Utilities
- AutoCAD Mechanical 2014 or AutoCAD Architecture 2014 with Factory Design Utilities
- Autodesk Navisworks Manage 2014 or Autodesk Navisworks 2014 Simulate 2014 with Factory Design Utilities
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Abbreviations used:
- CER refers to a Customer Error Report
- NG refers to an item reported on the Autodesk Newsgroups
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Factory Design Utilities for Inventor 2014
- CER: Exiting asset builder may encounter unstability when the asset is an assembly.
- CER: Inventor 2014 may crash while deleting one placed asset in specific layout.
- CER: Unexpected exit may be encountered if the annotation contains hyperlinks in invalid format. When you input URL with spaces for Annotation, please take %20 for each space. For example:file://c:\temp\this%20is%20a%20test.
- CER: Inventor 2014 will be occasionally unstable when launch Asset Variants command with user specifc asset.
- CER: Inventor 2014 will become unstable when defining a connector for a derived component and the link to the base part is broken or suppressed.
- CER: Unexpected exit of Inventor 2014 when delete BIM connector in the layout and operate Sync to AutoCAD.
- CER: Inventor 2014 may be unstable when Sync AutoCAD within specific large layout dataset.
- CER: Inventor 2014 may be unstable when Sync AutoCAD with more than 255 same instances in the layout.
- 255 same instances are maximized number can be populated to 3D Assets when Sync Inventor.
- Sync to AutoCAD may fail for specific dataset that has been operated with multiple rounds of Sync AutoCAD and Sync Inventor.
- ANSI(mm).idw or ANSI(in).idw should not be mandatory in the template folder when publishing asset.
- Inventor should read drawing INSUNITS in AutoCAD when importing DWG Solids in Create Asset in Inventor 2014.
- The overlay scales up with 25.4 automatically after a roundtrip between Inventor 2014 and AutoCAD 2014.
- Fail to publish Asset Variants in localization Inventor 2014 which is installed on English Operation System.
- Inventor 2014 can't connect to subscription center after disconnect network and connect again.
- The color of DWG solid is missed when it is imported into Inventor 2014 to Create Asset.
- One layer is set as locked in AutoCAD 2014, then edition of layout happed to this layer in Inventor 2014. Sync AtuoCAD again will fail.
- Patterned assets which is in another pattern can not be populated to be 3D Assets in Inventor 2014.
- 3D Assets offset from original 2D DWG overlays.
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Factory Design Utilities for AutoCAD 2014
- Sync Inventor with unloaded DWG files will fail with exception message popping out.
- Title border, drawing border, shaded views, etc. can't show if open Inventor drawing in AutoCAD Architecture 2014 or AutoCAD Mechanical 2014. .
- Multileader's arrowhead can't display in all templates from AutoCAD Architecture 2014 and Factory templates from AutoCAD Mechnical 2014.
- DXF file can't open in AutoCAD Architecture 2014 or AutoCAD Mechanical 2014 if it contains Factory element or uses Factory template.
- Exceptions pop up when switch the variants for one Asset Variants which is located in the locked layer in AutoCAD Architecture 2014 or AutoCAD Mechanical 2014.
- Error dialog pops up when click Home view in AutoCAD Architecture 2014 or AutoCAD Mechanical 2014 if BIM Connector included in the file.
- User can't specify path for routing in AutoCAD Architecture 2014 Russion or AutoCAD Mechanical 2014 Russian.
Factory Design Utilities for Navisworks 2014
- Navisworks 2014 hangs up when open NWD file.
- Unexpected exit when launch Navisworks Manage 2014 or Navisworks Simulate 2014 if they have been applied of Navisworks 2014 SP1.
- Exporting Factory objects to DXF file is not supported.
- Color will be missed if you import DWG Solid as Multi-Body part in Inventor 2014 to Create Asset.
- Define Connector or add Descriptor can not work for one Asset that is derived component.
- Asset Variants fail to be published in Inventor 2014 against Win8.1 Operation System.
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We thank all our customers who identified these issues and reported them to
us. These reports give us the opportunity to improve the product and provide
you with the best solution in manufacturing engineering. We also thank you for your
continued business and for the feedback regarding the content of this update
release.
Respectfully,
The Autodesk Factory Design Suite Product Team
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