Thank you for downloading AutoCAD® MEP 2010 Update 2.
This readme 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 this update to your product. For reference, you should save this document to your hard drive or print a copy.
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You can apply this update to the following Autodesk products running on all supported operating systems and languages. Be sure to install the correct update for your software.
You do not have to install Update 1 in order to install Update 2. This update includes Update 1.
You can also use Communication Center to install the Live Update Maintenance Patches, which will automatically show the correct update for your product.
32-bit Product |
Update |
| AutoCAD MEP 2010 | AutoCAD_MEP_2010_Update_2.exe |
64-bit Product |
Update |
| AutoCAD MEP 2010 | AutoCAD_MEP_2010_Update_2_x64.exe |
You can use this update 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:
The following Windows 7 operating systems:
When you apply this update while running AutoCAD MEP, it is recommended that you do not click the "Automatically close applications and attempt to restart them after setup is complete" option. Instead, close AutoCAD MEP manually before you install this update.
The following defects have been fixed in AutoCAD MEP 2010 Update 2:
BDH Import
Update 2
- Radiator Import may lead to crash during when updating existing drawings.
Device
Update 1
- Device modify via grip edit doesn't move or maintain its orientation as expected.
- The Add Automatic Property for a Device was not retrieving the Load Category or Number of Poles.
Update 2
- Opening drawings from previous releases may lead to crash.
- When Rotating Devices with Update 1 installed, the Device annotation is not rotating relative to the offset specified in the block.
- Layer Key Override - Devices with an assigned System Definition that contains a Layer Key Override are appending the initial overrides in the Layer Key Override dialog.
Display
Update 1
- Haloed or hidden appearance for Plumbing Lines, Schematic lines and Wires do not display correctly.
Duct
Update 1
- Duct Flanges are displayed incorrectly after moving a duct using grips.
- Velocity in Duct Modify does not match the Velocity in the Properties Palette.
- Add Selected does not work correctly when duct height is greater than duct width.
- Takeoff for branch is not sized correctly when duct height is greater than duct width.
- Top and Bottom Elevation are incorrect in tooltip when duct height is greater than duct width.
Update 2
- Duct Takeoffs may move or become disconnected during Regen Model.
Elbow may change elevation when changing parameters values.
Electrical
Update 1
- A crash may occur when closing a drawing with an EPD file that has a relative path.
- A crash may occur when converting multiple blocks to Devices.
- Wire will only connect to one connector on some scaled devices.
Update 2
- Duplicate circuits may be created when copying devices between two drawings.
- Circuit Manager appears to hang in drawings with multiple tabs.
- Wire sizes may not appear in the first time Circuit Manager is activated.
- EPD Relative Pathing may not work on mapped networked drives.
- Exiting AutoCAD MEP with Circuit Manager open may lead to crash.
- Using Block Editor in a Panel Schedule drawing may lead to Circuits losing there name in the Schedule.
Info Center
Update 2
- Balloon notifications in Info Center may be blank when Windows 7 theme is set to classic
Performance
Update 2
- Compass repeatly sets Elevation value when Project Navigator is active.
- Opening drawings with large Xreferences may cause AutoCAD MEP to stop responding.
- Closing drawings may not release memory.
Multi-View Parts
Update 1
- Some linework is missing from certain MvParts.
- Radiator insertion fails, using the window option, if the radiator width or length is located in a basic table.
- Radiator Import does not set property data properly.
- Radiator valves are not aligned to the radiator when inserted using the plus grip.
Pipe
Update 1
- The formula for percentage slope by angle is incorrect. Fixing this means that an existing tool in which a specific number for percentage is stored will produce a different slope due to the new calculation.
- Pipe layouts with Very low slope cannot be created correctly.
- The Parallel Pipe command places new pipes on the wrong layer when systems use different layers.
- Some Pipe created in previous versions of AutoCAD MEP snaps to fittings when opened.
Update 2
- Some fittings accessed thru Runtime catalog may not appear in Routing Preferences.
- Some fittings may not appear correct when accessed thru a runtime catalog.
Plumbing
Update 2
- Plumbing Line overlapping with Plumbing fitting may lead to crash.
- Changing a Fitting Style on the Properties Palette may lead to the command line style control to not work.
- Selecting a Plumbing Line on Windows 7 operating system may lead to crash.
Schedules
Update 2
- Wrong area is calculated in BOM table with OE-NORM if length smaller than 400 and size constant in DACH profile.
Schematics
Update 2
- When filleting two schematic lines with schematic symbols, the schematic line end may snap to a schematic symbol.
- When drawing a short schematic line segment from a schematic symbol the schematic line may snap to the schematic symbol.
Sections
Update 2
- Creating a 2D section using large selection set on a 32 bit operating system may lead to crash.
Tool Palette
Update 2
- Dragging a Tool from Content Browser onto a Tool Palette may lead to script error.
Miscellaneous
Update 1
- CollisionDetection does not work as expected.
- "Copy to Clipboard failed" dialog will appear when copying an object that has been copy/pasted from another drawing.
- A fatal error will occur when creating an elbow with multiple segments.
Update 2
- Reloading Xrefs may lead to crash.
As a result of detailed information from customers who used the Customer Error Reporting Utility, a number of problems were identified and fixed. Updates have been made in the following commands and features:
The following AutoCAD Architecture defects have been fixed:
AEC Dimensions
Update 1
- Multiple overlapping windows may lead to incorrect dimensions.
API
Update 1
- AutoCAD Architecture might crash when trying to define a Display Theme style using .NET API.
Doors/Windows/Openings
Update 2
- When a custom block is applied to a door, window, or door-window assembly, the block will be visible even if it is not within the cut plane range.
- Sometimes, you cannot insert an opening in a wall in a certain cleanup group.
Drawing Management
Update 2
- AutoCAD Architecture may crash when you repath certain projects with no drawings open.
- Renaming items in the Project Navigator, and repathing the project may cause AutoCAD Architecture to crash.
Export to AutoCAD
Update 2
- Export to Autocad sometimes causes AutoCAD Architecture to crash.
External References
Update 1
- Openings in external references with negative Z value are placed at an incorrect position.
Update 2
- When you execute UNDO command after binding an external reference, AutoCAD Architecture may become unresponsive.
- AutoCAD Architecture may crash if you unload an external reference, attach it again, and then execute an UNDO.
GBXML
Update 2
- Duplicate openings are created in gbXML output when walls are slightly off from being perpendicular to each other.
General UI
Update 2
- Checkboxes are not displayed correctly on the Object Snap tab of the Drafting Settings dialog on Windows 7.
IFC
Update 1
- Slabs may have the wrong elevation when imported from an IFC file due to an incorrect thickness offset.
- Exporting a drawing to IFC may create incorrect IFC GUIDs for AEC objects.
- Importing IFC files that contain certain material settings may crash.
- Space exported to IFC have the IFC type of IFCTYPEOBJECT instead of IFCSPACETYPE.
Update 2
- When you import an IFC file, containing a space that uses a negative value for extrusion, the extrusion is in the wrong direction.
- Importing an IFC file fails if it contains a 3D vector for True North direction.
Layers
Update 1
- The "New layer from Standard" button doesn't work in localized versions.
- Layer description fields are not automatically populated in all cases.
Update 2
- When the Layer Properties Manager is open, opening a drawing sometimes causes AutoCAD Architecture to crash.
Multiview Blocks
Update 2
- When AutoCAD Architecture and Civil 3D are installed side by side, AutoCAD Architecture crashes on executing MVBLOCKADD command.
Performance
Update 1
- Response is very slow when using Dynamic UCS and objects are Isolated.
Update 2
- Sometimes, it takes a long time to complete an UNDO after a COPY.
Property Palette
Update 1
- Changing an entry to one that is the first characters of the previous entry will not work in some fields.
Save
Update 2
- When you save a drawing to a previous version, sometimes, you are not warned about possible data loss.
Schedules
Update 1
- Schedules are not sorted as expected when values are a combination of numeric and alphabetic characters.
Update 2
- Sometimes, schedule table data is not rounded off as specificed in the property data format.
Sections
Update 1
- Some objects imported from Inventor display as points in 2D Sections.
Update 2
- When a window or door window assembly is sectioned, some linework may be missing in the section.
Structural Members
Update 1
- Custom block based on 3D Solids using Boolean operations are always placed at the start point.
Spaces
Update 2
- AutoCAD Architecture may crash when a spaced update is triggered for a large number of spaces within an external reference.
Wall Objects
Update 1
- AutoCAD Architecture might hang when opening certain drawings that contain modified Wall Endcaps.
- Window openings may not be created due to Wall Plan Modifiers.
- Using Refedit on a block containing Wall Object may cause a crash.
Update 2
- When working on a project located on a slow network, the wall and curtain wall tools are slow to respond.
- Some walls in an external reference display solution tips when the units of the host drawing are different from that of the external reference.
- AutoCAD Architecture will crash when you delete a component of a wall which is on a locked layer.
With this update, if you are a subscription customer, a balloon notification periodically displays, letting you know how much time remains before your subscription expires. This notification will only display three times. You can access selected subscription benefits more quickly, without having to log on to the Subscription Center.
Online Renewal
If you meet the online renewal program rules, you can renew your AutoCAD MEP subscription online. If you have already renewed your subscription, or are not a subscription customer, these options are not available.
eLearning
In InfoCenter, click the Subscription Center button. Under Benefits Center, click View eLearning Catalog. You will be prompted to sign-in to the Subscription Center.
Search
You can access some subscription-only learning and technical support without logging onto the Subscription Center. This includes some eLearning lessons.
New Advantage Packs
When a new Advantage Pack becomes available, a balloon notification and menu option displays. To review and download the Advantage Pack, click the balloon notification or menu option. You must have permission to begin the download. Contract managers and software coordinators can control access to Advantage Packs from Subscription Center > Set Access from Product. Instructions for setting access permissions are provided to contract managers and software coordinators prior to Advantage Pack releases.
As a result of detailed information from customers who used the Customer Error Reporting Utility, a number of problems were identified and fixed. Updates have been made in the following commands and features:
Update 1
Update 2
The following AutoCAD defects have been fixed:
2D Drawing
Update 1
- If the PLINETYPE system variable is set to 0, STRETCH does not work as expected on arc segments of polylines.
- When the PLINETYPE system variable is set to 0, the closing point of a polyline with segments of different widths do not display correctly.
- If you use the JOIN command on splines, a duplicate control point is inserted.
- When you use the JOIN command on multiple polylines, AutoCAD may become unstable.
Update 2
- When drawing a closed heavy weight polyline with different width for each segment, the polyline cannot be closed properly.
3D Modeling
Update 1
- When you open a drawing that contains solids, some solids display briefly and then disappear.
- If a grip on a mesh face, edge, or vertex is highlighted and you use the ViewCube, AutoCAD may become unstable.
3D Navigation Tools
Update 1
- When you use the 3DORBIT command, you cannot orbit correctly. You can only orbit around a single pivot point and you cannot orbit around a specific object in a large group of objects.
Update 2
- AutoCAD may become unstable while dragging the cube and releasing the cursor at the top of the canvas.
Action Recorder
Update 1
- An Action Recorder macro created in AutoCAD 2009 may fail to run in AutoCAD 2010.
Annotation Scaling
Update 1
- When there are xrefs in a drawing, changing annotation scales takes a long time.
- When an annotative style multiline text (mtext) is rotated or surrounded by a hatch, the boundary box does not display correctly.
API
Update 2
- Exploding a block using "NetExplode" API modifies the "Global width" property of the polyline.
Blocks
Update 1
- When you turn off the display of an attribute with a visibility parameter in a dynamic block, the Enhanced Attribute Editor lists attribute prompts incorrectly.
- You cannot copy an object from an AutoCAD 2009 drawing and paste it as a block into an AutoCAD 2010 drawing.
- You cannot use the Properties palette to set the value of a action parameter to 0.
- When you delete a constraint parameter from a dynamic block, AutoCAD may become unstable.
- You cannot stretch some dynamic blocks as expected.
Check Spelling
Update 1
- When you run spellcheck on uppercase words, AutoCAD may become unstable.
CUI
Update 1
- When you save a workspace, if the Enterprise CUIx file is read-only, AutoCAD may become unstable.
- Toolbar flyouts close unexpectedly.
Customer Involvement Program
Update 2
- AutoCAD may fail to start up on Windows 7 workstations with Windows 2008 Server on the same subnet.
Data Extraction
Update 1
- When you use Data Extraction to extract the value of a block's multiline attribute into a table, text formatting code displays in the table.
Update 2
- Constrained attribute values may not extract properly based on drawing order.
DGN Support
Update 1
- When a DGN file is imported, some attributes are missing.
Update 2
- Restores the ability to use any extension when attaching DGN files.
- DGNIMPORT command with "Ignore all external references" option may not work.
Digital Signature
Update 1
- When you open a drawing, the Invalid signature dialog box may display even if the digital signature is valid.
Dimensions
Update 1
- You cannot create an angular dimension between two lines in different XY planes.
Update 2
- AutoCAD may become unstable when stretching multiple dimensions with dimbreaks applied.
- Cyrillic characters in dimension text may cause AutoCAD to incorrectly report that the drawing is corrupt after running RECOVER.
DWF
Update 1
- When the background color in AutoCAD is black, some DWF underlays do not display correctly.
DXF
Update 2
- When opening some DXF Files, you may receive a DXF error.
Dynamic Dimensions
Update 1
- When you use the COPYBASE command with Dynamic Input on, AutoCAD may become unstable.
ETransmit
Update 2
- AutoCAD may become unstable when using eTransmit.
Express Tools
Update 2
- AutoCAD may become unstable when editing height values for arc-aligned text in the Properties Palette.
Export Layout
Update 1
- When you use the EXPORTLAYOUT command on files in which Standard styles have been renamed, AutoCAD may become unstable.
External References
Update 1
- You may not be able to bind multiple xrefs that include nested xrefs.
- With the XATTACH command, you cannot select multiple xrefs.
Update 2
- Xrefs with true color gradients now display properly in 2D graphics modes.
- AutoCAD may display an error message about logic color -5 when attaching an xref.
- AutoCAD may become unstable when binding an xref.
- AutoCAD may become unstable when using right-click menu on an xref.
File Open
Update 1
- When you try to open a drawing file from a FTP site, AutoCAD may become unstable.
Update 2
- After applying Vista SP2 or on Windows 7 it is not possible to double click and open a folder that is using DFS Namespace.
- AutoCAD drawings saved in Vault may not display 2010 properties properly.
- Opening drawing files from older releases of AutoCAD may take a while to open.
- Unable to use asterisk "*" symbol on wildcard searches.
Find and Replace
Update 1
- If you use Find and Replace, autonumbering is deleted.
Font
Update 2
- AutoCAD may become unstable when using older version ".SHX" fonts.
General UI
Update 1
- On the status bar, the model or paperspace button may be missing, even after you have repeatedly turned it on.
Update 2
- AutoCAD may become unstable when more than one bubble is displayed and then closed.
Graphic System
Update 1
- When the background color is changed in an active paperspace viewport, the cursor disappears.
- After you plot a drawing in AutoCAD, if you lock Microsoft Windows and then unlock it, AutoCAD may become unstable.
Hatch
Update 1
- When you turn off the current layer while grip editing a hatch boundary, AutoCAD may become unstable.
- When the UCSVP system variable is set to 0, hatched objects align with the WCS rather than the UCS.
- When you grip-edit a hatch with an elliptical boundary, AutoCAD may become unstable.
Update 2
- AutoCAD may become unstable when double clicking on hatched areas in a drawing.
Image
Update 1
- When you attach some TIFF images, AutoCAD may become unstable.
- TIFF images may not display correctly.
Update 2
- Rotating an image with plines may appear to offset from the image.
- AutoCAD session may hang when plotting drawings with rotated Mr SID images attached.
InfoCenter
Update 2
- Balloon notification in InfoCenter is blank when Windows 7 display Theme is set to Classic.
Inquiry Tools
Update 1
- The AREA command fails on some polylines.
Keyboard Modifiers
Update 1
- When temporary overrides are enabled, keyboard input using the Shift key may not display on the command line.
Layers
Update 1
- Xrefs on locked layers do not display faded as expected. The LAYLOCKFADECTL system variable fails to alter them.
- When you delete a certain layer, all layers may be deleted.
- On the ribbon, the Layer drop-down does not display layers based on the current layer filter.
Update 2
- Layer groups may not remain deleted after reopening the Layer Manager.
- AutoCAD may become unstable when switching layouts if the Layer Description column is frozen.
Objects on "layer 0" in an external reference do not display when the layer is turned on from the current drawing.
Licensing
Update 1
- When you set your system time back more than 2 days, your license is broken.
- When you use a proxy server for Internet access, the License Transfer Utility fails.
Linetype
Update2
- Some of the linetypes with text do not display correctly.
LiveUpdate
Update 1
- When you have Autodesk 2009 and AutoCAD 2010 installed side-by-side, LiveUpdate does not work in AutoCAD 2009.
Measurement Tools
Update 1
- When you use the MEASUREGEOM command, the tooltip and command line results are different. The tooltip result is incorrect.
- When you use the DIST command in model space, the results at the tooltip and the command line are different. The tooltip result is incorrect.
Migration
Update 1
- When you export certain profiles, AutoCAD may become unstable.
When you save certain profiles migrated from AutoCAD 2009, AutoCAD 2010 may become unstable.
Multileader (mleader)
Update 1
- When you mirror mleaders that contain blocks with multiline attributes, the mirrored attributes are incorrectly justified.
OLE
Update 2
- AutoCAD can be slow when updating OLE objects in Microsoft Word 2007.
- "Paste to Original Coordinates" is disabled in right-click context menu after copying objects from another open drawing.
- AutoCAD may become unstable when pasting drawing files into Microsoft Word.
Organic Modeling
Update 2
- Gizmo may not display while in 3D Orbit.
Osnap
Update 2
- 64-bit AutoCAD may become unstable when using PRESSPULL on mesh object.
Update 1
- When you plot a drawing as a PDF file, the layer order is not alphabetized as expected.
- When a drawing that contains layers with names that include special characters is exported as a PDF, it cannot be opened.
- When you attach a large PDF file to your drawing, or try to attach it and then cancel the operation, performance is slow.
Update 2
- AutoCAD may hang when plotting large images to PDF.
Property Palette
Update 2
- AutoCAD may become unstable when using the Property Palette.
Publish
Update 1
- When Windows XP is set to Windows Classic theme, on any Asian language version of AutoCAD 2010, if you use the PUBLISH command, AutoCAD freezes.
Purge
Update 1
- On Windows Vista, in the Purge dialog box, when you attempt to use the Ctrl or Shift keys to select multiple items, the first highlighted item is de-selected.
Quick Access Toolbar
Update 2
- Opening a linked drawing from a Microsoft Office product may cause the Quick Access Toolbar to no longer display.
QUICKCALC
Update 1
- Calculations performed by the QUICKCALC command may be incorrect.
Recover
Update 1
- When you use the RECOVER command on an AutoCAD 2000 formatted drawing file, polylines and splines in the drawing are deleted.
Update 2
- Opening drawings with dense hatch appear to hang at 31%.
- Some older drawings containing 3DSOLIDS do not display.
Reference Edit
Update 1
- When you use the REFSET command, you can only add one instance of a block to the reference set. Other instances are rejected and an error message displays.
Ribbon
Update 1
- Text styles from an attached xref display in the Ribbon text style control.
- When you switch between AutoCAD Classic and other workspaces (for example, 2D Drafting & Annotation or 3D Modeling), performance becomes slow.
- Layers with a VP Freeze for a viewport indicate the VP Freeze status even when the viewport is not active.
- When you click the File menu in the zero doc state, AutoCAD freezes.
- After you unload a partial CUI file, a tab remains on the ribbon. If you click the tab, AutoCAD may become unstable.
Update 2
- AutoCAD may become unstable when switching to the Render tab of the Ribbon when .NET 4 is on the system.
- Legacy menu bar may display over the Ribbon when AutoCAD is not responding while opening large drawings.
- AutoCAD may become unstable when using Clipping Boundary control in the Ribbon.
- AutoCAD may become unstable when dragging a Ribbon Panel on Windows 7 64-bit operating system.
Section & Flatten
Update 1
- When you section solids through API, multiple memory leaks occur.
Update 2
- SECTIONPLANETOBLOCK may not work correctly when the sectionplane is not intersecting an object.
- After using the command SECTIONPLANE AutoCAD may become unstable.
- SECTIONPLANE may not display all cutaway geometry.
Seek
Update 1
- The SHAREWITHSEEK command may not work if the port used to communicate with Seek is blocked by a firewall.
Snaps
Update 1
- When you snap to the grid, there may be a slight offset from the grid.
Text
Update 2
- Bigfont may not be converted properly when saving a DWG to 2004 file format.
UCS
Update 1
- In AutoCAD 2010 German, you cannot use ribbon controls to modify coordinates.
Visual Basic
Update 2
- May not be able to restore minimized AutoCAD with VBA loaded.
Visual Lisp
Update 1
- When you use the CECOLOR system variable, the value returned by using the Getvar function is incorrect.
Update 2
LISP incorrectly converts some Japanese characters to CIF.
As you prepare to install this update, keep the following in mind:
Back Up Custom Files
It is recommended that you back up all custom CUI, MNR, and MNL files before you apply this update.
Administrative Privileges
During installation, you will be prompted for the original installation media or a network image. In order to apply this update, you must have administrative privileges to install and uninstall products.
Network Deployment
Administrators can deploy this update over a network using the Deployment wizard.
About Your Product
After you install, product information displays in the About dialog box.
Reboot
After you install, be sure to reboot your system even if not prompted.
The following Microsoft Windows command line switches are built into this update:
Instructions about how to use the /e command line switch are included in the installation procedures that follow.
Follow these instructions to install this update on a single computer.
You can use InfoCenter to apply this update through your local network. Detailed instructions on how to set up patching through your local network are listed in the InfoCenter tab of the CAD Manager Control Utility Help.
Note: You can install the CAD Manager Control Utility from the product installation media. Select Install Tools and Utilities and then select Autodesk CAD Manager Tools.
The following distribution method applies only to administrative images created with the Deployment wizard. After you complete these procedures, subsequent deployments of your product will include this update.
In all cases, append this update to the deployment. The only time it is appropriate to merge an update is if you intend to distribute the deployment through a group policy object.
The patch (update) file that you download contains an MSP (Microsoft Patch) file, which you extract from the executable file using the /e (extract) switch. For an example of the syntax, see step 2, below.
<local_drive:>\<patch_name> /e <local_drive:>\< patch_name>.msp
Note: This update cannot be uninstalled when the product is installed from a deployment (also called an administrative image) with a merged update.
Windows XP
Windows Vista and Windows 7
NOTE:
After uninstalling Update 1 or Update 2 for AutoCAD MEP 2010, you will need to repair your AutoCAD MEP 2011. You should do this right after the Update is uninstalled to avoid issues.
This release updates all AutoCAD MEP 2010 files.
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