March 31, 2011

Release Notes - Read Me file
Autodesk, Inc.

In a continuing effort to provide high quality products, Autodesk has released Autodesk Product Design Suite 2012. This file highlights significant known open issues and provides information that is useful while using Inventor.

Notes About Installation

Installation Requirements

Installation Instructions

Legal Notice

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• Please update your operating system before you install Autodesk Product Design Suite 2012. Reboot your system after all security updates, and so on, are installed.

• .NET 4.0 is required for the installation of Product Design Suite 2012. Please verify that .NET 4.0 is installed before you start to install or deploy product. If it is not installed the installer can be found on the source media under "…\3rdParty\NET\4\wcu\dotNetFramework\dotNetFx40_Full_x86_x64.exe".

• Close all Autodesk applications before installation, maintenance, or uninstalling of the software.
• After you finish a silent deployment installation, reboot the computer before you launch product. If the version of MSI of your operating system is lower than 4.0, the operating system reboots automatically after the silent deployment install finishes.
• If you are running Windows Vista 64-bit or Windows 7 64-bit, verify that you have the Microsoft fix for user mode callback exceptions KB976038. This fix ensures that Autodesk receives the correct data from Inventor error reports. For more information, and access to this and related Microsoft downloads, refer to Autodesk Technical Solution 15492718.
• You may install all products at once, or in multiple sessions of the product Design Suite installer.
• If you want to install Autodesk Fusion 2012 with Autodesk Inventor 2012 or AutoCAD Mechanical 2012, we recommend that you also install Autodesk Fusion 2012 Service Pack 1. On the Autodesk Product Design Suite 2012 Install - Configure page, click the small down arrow to expand the Autodesk Fusion 2012 configuration section, and then select the service pack along with other configuration options.
• If you find some products cannot be selected to install, you can put the mouse on the red "prohibited" circle in front of the product to get more information.
• If you download the source files to a local folder with a name that contains non-English characters, make sure that the language in Regional Settings is consistent with the language name of the local folder.
• When you browse a downloaded language pack, select the language that matches the language of the local, or English machine. Also, make sure all of the products you plan to install or deploy are of the same language.
• If you install Autodesk Design Review 2012, it automatically uninstalls your installed Autodesk Design Review 2011.
• Ensure that the deployment log file path does not include non-English characters, and that the deployment image path is less than 65 claracters long.
• Non-silent deployment install sometimes takes a long time to initialize. During initializing, the installer UI sometimes disappears for a while.
• When you modify deployment on Windows XP operating systems, please make sure the version of MSI is higher than 4.0 or installation errors will be encountered.
• Create the deployment on a computer that does not have the Product Design Suite products installed. If you must use a computer that already has the Product Design Suite products installed on it, use a x86 machine to create a 32bit deployment and use a x64 machine to create a 64bit deployment image.

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• The Autodesk Product Design Suites 2012 supports XP 32bit SP3, XP 64bit SP2, Vista 32bit SP2, Vista 64bit SP2, Win7 32 bit and Win7 64 bit. If the operating system does not meet these requirements, please update it before the installation.
• On Windows Vista, Microsoft Vista SP2 Hotfix KB971138 is REQUIRED in order to install Autodesk Inventor 2012. For more information, and access to this and related Microsoft downloads, refer to Autodesk Technical Solution 16323149.
• Verify that you have administrator privilege on your local machine to install Autodesk Product Design Suite 2012.
• Installation on virtual machines is not supported.
• Flash Player 10 (or higher). The multimedia learning solutions require the Flash player. Download from the Adobe Flash Player Web site.
• Adobe Reader is required to read documentation provided in PDF format. Download from get.adobe.com/reader.

Disk Requirements - Autodesk Product Design Suite 2012




Suites	System	Actual Disk Required
Product Design Suite Ultimate 2012	Windows 32 bit	Total - 20.4 GB	System drive (required) - 5.2 GB
Product Design Suite Ultimate 2012	Windows 64 bit	Total - 19.5 GB	System drive (required) - 2.4 GB
Product Design Suite Premium 2012	Windows 32 bit	Total - 17.4 GB	System drive (required) - 4.2 GB
Product Design Suite Premium 2012	Windows 64 bit	Total - 15.2 GB	System drive (required) - 3.2 GB
Product Design Suite Standard 2012	Windows 32 bit	Total - 10.3 GB	System drive (required) - 4.1 GB
Product Design Suite Standard 2012	Windows 64 bit	Total - 11.7 GB	System drive (required) - 5.5 GB

 

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Before you begin...

1. Install Microsoft .Net 4.0.

2. Install all Windows Updates that are pending on your machine and reboot.

Windows XP: Use the Windows Update utility located in the Control Panel.

Windows 7 and Windows Vista: Use the Windows Update utility located in the Control Panel, and on the sidebar.

Note that you may be required to perform Windows Update multiple times in order to completely update your operating system.

3. Verify that enough disk space is available on your machine to install Autodesk Product Design Suite 2012.

4. Before installing any of the Autodesk Product Design Suites 2012, ensure you uninstall all previously installed Autodesk 2012 Beta products.




To install Autodesk Product Design Suite 2012:



For Electronic Fulfillment users only:
1. Download the appropriate Autodesk Product Design Suite 2012 installation files to a temporary location on your computer hard drive.
2. Double-click the self-extracting executable file to access the Installer. The files are temporarily extracted to the Temp folder. If this temporary location is nested too many levels deep, the install fails. It is recommended that the extracted destination folder path is less than 84 characters long. We recommend that you use the default destination folder as the self-extract destination folder name. After the file is extracted, the Inventor installer wizard launches automatically. If it does not launch, browse to the folder where all files were extracted and double-click setup.exe.
3. In the Install > Configure Installation dialog box, click the expandable arrow to set preferences.
   
   Important: If you are switching languages or adding a Language Pack, ensure you browse to it and set that option before setting any other preferences. Changing a Language Pack will reset some of the installation preferences to their default values.


4. After configuration, confirm all your preferences are set as required before starting the installation.
5. When the installation is done, click Finish.
6. If required, reboot the system after the installation is finished.


For USB users only:
1. Insert the USB stick in to an available USB port on your computer, wait till Windows recognized the device.
2. The Autoplay dialog will launched automatically, choose "Open foloder to view files". If it does not launch, open "My Computer", a new icon using the next available drive leter labeled "PDSSUITE" will appear automatically, then open that drive.
3. Double-click setup.exe to start the installation.
4. In the Install > Configure Installation dialog box, click the expandable arrow to set preferences.
   
   Important: If you are switching languages or adding a Language Pack, ensure you browse to it and set that option before setting any other preferences. Changing a Language Pack will reset some of the installation preferences to their default values.



5. After configuration, confirm all your preferences are set as required before starting the installation.
6. When the installation is done, click Finish.
7. If required, reboot the system after the installation is finished.



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Notwithstanding the terms contained in the terms and conditions and the Autodesk Software License Agreement (EULA) accompanying this software, if you received this Software as a New Version or Cross grade (all as defined in the EULA), your license with respect to the previously licensed version of Autodesk Mechanical Desktop software ("Mechanical Desktop") shall not terminate, you shall have no obligation to uninstall such software and you may continue to use such Previous Version of Mechanical Desktop with your current version of Autodesk Inventor software.




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We thank all our customers who identify issues and report 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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