Service Pack 1 - for Autodesk Inventor 2014 (Build 222)
Sep 19, 2013
Release Notes - Autodesk Inventor 2014 SP1 Readme
Autodesk, Inc.
In a continuing effort to provide high quality products, this Service Pack 1 for Autodesk Inventor 2014 fixes or addresses a
variety of issues. This file highlights how to install the service pack and what has been fixed.
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- SP1(222) installs on Inventor 2014(170).
- Install only the bit-type version of Autodesk Inventor 2014 Service Pack 1 that
corresponds to the bit-type version of your installation of Autodesk Inventor 2014.
- For deployed installations append the Service Pack to your existing
deployment image rather than merge it. We suggest this behavior for all service pack releases. Additionally,
update a deployment image on the same bit-type machine as the machine for the final installation from that image.
For more information about Network Deployments, see the Network Administrator's Guide by accessing your
original installation media. In the installer, select Read The Documentation.
- Keep the original installation media or network image readily accessible during installation and uninstallation in case you are prompted for it.
- This Service Pack 1 includes all released hotfixes for Autodesk Inventor 2014, including fixes made within Update1 & Update2, so no prerequisite installations are required.
- This Service Pack 1 does not include Autodesk 360 desktop companion Update 2. If you would like to update it as well, please go to Data & Download page.
- Inventor Optimization 2014 requires update. Inventor Optimization will verify the user's account has a balance of cloud credits, and the user's account will now be charged a flat rate of cloud credits per completed Optimization job. The prior Inventor Optimization 2014 release will cease working on September 16, 2013; this update will be required on and after that date to continue to use Inventor Optimization.
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- Verify that you have administrator privileges on your local machine to install Autodesk Inventor
2014 Service Pack 1.
- The 32-bit version of Autodesk Inventor 2014 Service Pack 1 is approximately 48.1 MB in size. A
minimum of 1.36 GB of free disk space is required on the drive where your temporary files are directed.
- The 64-bit version of Autodesk Inventor 2014 Service Pack 1 is approximately 91.9 MB in size. A
minimum of 1.99 GB of free disk space is required on the drive where your temporary files are directed.
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Installation
- Update your operating system before you install Autodesk Inventor 2014 Service Pack 1. Reboot
your system after the updates are installed.
- Download the appropriate version of Autodesk Inventor 2014 Service Pack 1; either the 32-bit
or 64-bit version depending upon your operating system bit type.
- Double click the .msp file to update Autodesk Inventor 2014 with Service Pack 1. A
progress bar displays while the installer updates the files on your system. When done, click Finish.
- If required, reboot the system after installation of the Service Pack 1 is finished.
To verify the success of the installation, start Autodesk Inventor. On the Info Center Help drop-down list, select About Autodesk
Inventor. If the About box displays: Build: 222, Release: 2014 SP1, the installation was successful.
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Uninstallation
The installer process sometimes hangs as it waits for operating system file update time-outs. If
the following steps do not enable the process to complete, wait until all of these file updates complete. This
process takes up to 6 hours. To greatly speed up the uninstall process, perform the following steps:
- In your system Control Panel, access Network Connections.
- Disable the local area connection and all network adaptors, including virtual adaptors.
- After the uninstall process is completed successfully, in your system Control Panel, re-enable the local area connection and all network adaptors, including virtual adaptors.
- If required, reboot the system after the uninstallation of the Service Pack 1 is finished.
If you experience an error messages with any Autodesk 2014 product after Uninstalling a service pack, please refer to the following Technical Solutions TS22241522.
Please familiarize yourself with an article posted to the Being Inventive Support blog if you plan to include this SP1 within a deployment image of Autodesk Inventor 2014. Microsoft released a hotfix that addresses a known issue that you can potentially encounter.
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Locate Autodesk Inventor 2014 Service Pack 1 here: Inventor Updates
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Cable & Harness
- Inventor unexpectedly exits when you undo and redo repeatedly in an iAssembly to open its member files when Cable & Harness add-in is loaded.
- For some particular dataset, after placing a nail board view of a Cable & Harness assembly in a drawing file, Inventor unexpectedly exits when you close the drawing file without saving and then closing Inventor.
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Stress Analysis
- Contacts in solids and faces at vertices are identified as face-face contacts.
- FEAComputerServer unexpectedly exits when detecting a large number of contacts.
- Inventor unexpectedly exits when you start stress analysis with certain models created by Inventor 2013.
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API
- DataIO.WriteDataToFile fails to publish Inventor drawing file to DWF file.
- Inventor imports DWG file into sketch with wrong units if you specify custom units for it.
- Inventor unexpectedly exits when calling ReferenceKeyManager.LoadKeyContext with an invalid KeyContext input.
- Inventor unexpectedly exits when calling AttributSet.Add for a FaceProxy that has 80000 edges.
- The output image using Camera.SaveAsBitmap is not correct in generated previews of drawing views.
- Inventor unexpectedly exits when accessing corrupt UserParameter.Value property.
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Assembly Modeling
- Inventor unexpectedly exits when you paste components after selecting two Origins in Joint command.
- Cannot make a weldment iAssembly material valid as a weldable material.
- Inventor unexpectedly exits after if you delete Tube and Pipe while the assembly is open in Express mode.
- Tube and Pipe loses its adaptability after moving its reference part in Express mode.
- Inventor unexpectedly exits if Design Accelerator add-in is loaded, and you pause the mouse over a face while placing file from Content Center in Express mode.
- The graphics does not update when you switch a design view to the one that contains a section view in Express mode.
- In Express mode, when the top assembly is open, welds nodes does not display correctly after you change their visibility.
- After you click Load Express and then Load Full, Tube and Pipe command is still disabled.
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BIM Exchange
- Cannot export .ipt file to .rfa file if features of the part are in unsupported appearance.
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BIM Simplify
- Inventor unexpectedly exits if you click OK several times in the Define Envelopes dialog box.
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Content Center
- The material of a Content Center component displays a long string in the assembly BOM.
- Unable to change icon of existing custom category in Content Center Library.
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Design Accelerator
- Bolted connection does not update automatically when you repostion its location by changing the placement sketch point.
- Bolted connection is not able to machine more than two parts at the same time.
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Drawing Manager
- Inventor unexpectedly exits when you undo and redo repeatedly in a drawing after you edit the source assembly file.
- For some particular legacy dataset, edges in the section view which are marked as invisible turn to visible when you open the drawing file.
- For a multi-body part, the drawing view does not respect component visibility if its design view association is unchecked.
- If you turn on hidden line for a particular part in the drawing view of an assembly, Inventor shows hidden interference edges of whole assembly instead of that particular part.
- Shaded views are not showing correct in drawing with zoom.
- Slow shut down of InventorViewCompute.exe even after Inventor main window closes.
- View remains raster after selecting Precise view.
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Engineer's Notebook
- Font color does not function in Engineer's Notebook comments.
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Enhanced Visualization
- If you create a shaded drawing base view, project some other views and then undo, the shaded face of the base view disappear.
- The shaded face in broken view shows incorrectly.
- Text is behind the Hatch in a drawing sketch.
- Inventor sometimes unexpectedly exits when you zoom an assembly in the wireframe visual style.
- After you open several files in an Inventor session, go to a drawing file and zoom in and zoom out, the title block displays incorrectly.
- Shaded with Hidden Edges visual effect becomes Shaded when you edit a sketch or a component in an assembly.
- The model shows too much noise if you use Ray Tracing in Good mode.
- Inventor sometimes unexpectedly exits when you create a sketch on a machine with certain old graphics drivers.
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Frame Generator
- Fail to assign the special material from custom material library to Frame member.
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Materials/Appearances
- Performance is poor when you delete appearances and materials from a library.
- Performance is poor when you copy appearances and materials between libraries.
- Cannot edit, rename or delete an in-document asset after renaming the same asset in library.
- Inventor unexpectedly exits when you undo and redo to assign material and appearance to a pattern feature.
- Duplicate Asset Name dialog box displays when you copy the same name material and appearance between documents.
- Cannot apply appearance assets from a different language library to an object.
- Cannot remove Stain color when you check off Stain option.
- All system libraries turn to sick when you login as a non-English account.
- Appearance is deleted when you delete its linked material.
- In assembly BOM, mass properties does not update when you assign material a using the quick access tool bar.
- The appearance dropdown list is not available when you select internal components.
- Style Conflict dialog box displays when you create a file from a template using a material or appearance from a customized library that is removed from current project.
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Multi-Sheet Plot
- Multi-Sheet Plot tool cannot read .idw file.
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Part Modeling
- In the Insert iFeature dialog box, the help button is disabled if the iFeature is created with a legacy localization build.
- iPart members do not show sketch and block definition.
- iPart created from a feature with no dimension generates empty children.
- When you measure distance in an iPart member, on the context menu Select Other is grayed out.
- Mass calculation fails for a part that uses unpatched Rhino surface data.
- Inventor sometimes hangs when you rebuild a pattern feature.
- Inventor sometimes unexpectedly exits when you edit a mirror feature.
- Sweep creates an invalid body with some faces that are not selectable or colorable.
- Sweep generates unexpected surfaces.
- Min and Max values for Hole patching are not stored.
- iFeature insert dialog will show "Create Package" instead of the description of the iFeature.
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Point Cloud
- If the region of your machine is set to German, Spanish, or Italian, the rcp point cloud files fail to attach.
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Presentations
- Inventor sometimes unexpectedly exits when you open an .ipn file.
- If you add a sub assembly into the main assembly, and then open the associated .ipn file of the main, the structure does not update in the browser.
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Sketch
- Cannot switch on and off the visibility of a sketch block when you edit the sketch.
- Inventor sometimes unexpectedly exits when you correct a sketch by Design Doctor.
- Cannot create a coincident point when you attach a line to a projected point.
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Translators
- After you save an Inventor drawing file to AutoCAD Mechanical 2014 file version, in the .ini file, the version of AutoCAD Mechanical is 2013.
- Inventor sometimes unexpectedly exits when you open non-Inventor files with Save Components during Load option checked on.
- When you open STEP, IGES, NX and SolidWorks files, there is no units information in the translation report.
- When you import non-Inventor files with Create Surface as Individual Surface Bodies option selected, performance is poor.
- Inventor unexpectedly exits when you export a file with empty bodies to IGES and STEP file formats.
- In a Windows 32-bit operating system, Inventor unexpectedly exits when you open an NX file with the Search below Folders to Open File option checked on.
- Inventor fails to open .neu files more than once in the European Windows operating system.
- No part color displays when you insert import a Solidworks file.
- CHS Inventor installed on a CHS operating system fails to read the files from CHS SolidWorks.
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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 mechanical design. We also thank you for your
continued business and for the feedback regarding the content of this update
release.
Respectfully,
Autodesk Inventor Product Team
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