Thank you for downloading AutoCAD®MEP 2012 Service Pack 1
This readme contains the latest information regarding the installation and use of the Service Pack. It is strongly recommended that you read the entire document before you apply the Service Pack 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 Service Pack to the following Autodesk products running on all supported operating systems and languages. Be sure to install the correct Service Pack for your software.
NOTE: You can also use Autodesk Exchange to install the Live Update Maintenance Patches, which will automatically show the correct Service Pack for your product.
32-bit Product |
Service Pack |
| AutoCAD MEP 2012 | MEP2012SP1.exe |
64-bit Product |
Service Pack |
| AutoCAD MEP 2012 | MEP2012SP1x64.exe |
You can use this Service Pack with the following operating systems:
Service Pack 2 (SP2) and Service Pack 3 (SP3) of the following:
Service Pack 1 (SP1) and Service Pack 2 (SP2) of the following:
The following Windows® 7 operating systems:
If you apply this Service Pack 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, and press "Ignore" at the prompt. It is also recommended that you reboot your system after installing the Service Pack.
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:
AutoCAD Architecture Service Pack 1
AutoCAD Service Pack 1
The following AutoCAD MEP defects have been fixed:
Auto Layout
- In some cases, copying and pasting an object in 2D or 3D view causes the object to rotate incorrectly.
Display
- The symbol of inline mvparts might be offset under 1-line diplay configuration.
- There is a gap between the pipe connector and some special inline MV part symbol connectors.
Duct
- In some cases, the transition elbow does not get added automatically when the duct is resized.
- AutoCAD MEP crashes intermittently when adding a duct fitting or when changing the base point of a fitting.
- Duct instant sizing does not update the duct size in certain cases.
- In some cases, the size of a Cross fitting is not calculated correctly.
- Duct sizing tool adds the duct fitting in the wrong layer.
Electrical
- Refediting a circuit drawing could lead to lost data.
- Some devices do not allign to objects correctly.
Labels
- LabelCurveAdd does not allow preselection.
Multi-View Parts
- MvPart Catalog status warning dialog displays when importing certain custom catalogs.
- Some customized MvParts display incorrectly.
Pipe
- Connection breaks occur when editing MEP 2011 pipe runs in MEP 2012.
- Copying pipes rotates the duplicate pipes.
- Hubs do not insert automatically when laying out sloped pipes.
Tool Based UI
- The Properties palette does not update the parameters when changing fittings.
- Instant sizing does not automatically calculate size.
Miscellaneous
- Duct object becomes unresponsive if its value us set using an API.
- Creating or opening drawings with external references or with walls very close to each other, causes AutoCAD MEP to crash.
- Insulation for Pipe fittings display incorrectly.
- AutoCAD MEP hangs when generating a 2D section which includes a special MV-part.
- Interference Detection does not work if a drawing with external references or with walls very close to each other, is rotated.
- Catalog editor crashes if the .NET3.5 Framework is not installed.
The following AutoCAD Architecture defects have been fixed:
Drawing Manager
- Selecting a sheet with a long name may cause unexpected behavior in AutoCAD Architecture.
- Opening a project with a large number of files in a 64-bit machine may cause AutoCAD Architecture to crash.
IFC
- Space containment does not work on a 64-bit operating system.
Multi-View Block
- Exporting multi-view blocks to AutoCAD may result in an incorrect size.
Profile
- Some AEC ARX files are loaded when running AutoCAD Architecture with an AutoCAD profile.
Renovation
- Renovation function fails when you add a door or window object during renovation mode.
- Sometimes the renovation toggle remains enabled even after exiting the renovation mode.
Section
- Building geometry may change after you activate and then disable the live section.
- Roof or roof cap solid hatch might be displayed in section incompletely.
Space/Zone
- Some merged space area are calculated incorrectly.
- When the unit area is inconsistent with its unit length, the calculated space area might be inaccurate.
Structural Member
- Adjusting column grid can cause beams to lose connection with the columns.
Tag
- Adding tags for doors on multiple reference copies may cause unexpected behavior in AutoCAD Architecture.
Wall
- REPOSITIONALONG command does not work for doors and windows.
- Running the JOIN command on two connected walls may cause unexpected behavior in AutoCAD Architecture.
- When you offset a wall using another wall with the same direction as the reference, the offset wall may be created in the opposite direction.
- The Below Cut Plan display component of doors or window may not display.
The following AutoCAD defects have been fixed:
3D Navigation Tools
- 3DConnexion settings are not being remembered after changes are made.
- 3Dconnexion device will not cancel the current command.
3D Surface Modeling
- With dynamic input off dragging the height handle of an extruded line will not always stretch by the value and direction of the drag.
- AutoCAD may become unstable when rebuilding a helix to a spline where the selection was not dropped.
Annotation Scaling
- AutoCAD may become unstable while attempting to load a DCL file with errors from a long file name.
- Tooltip does not appear when Additional tool tip string is set in “AcEdInputPointMonitor::monitorInput”.
- API fix: This fix will respect the custom color, line pattern and line weight when selecting the entities including external reference.
Autoloader
- Autoloader fails when SeriesMax parameter set to linked.
- Autoloader loads partial CUI but may not display it when the bundle is removed and reinstalled.
- When platform="AutoCAD*", bundles will be load on ACAD and Vertical.
- Using Autoloader to add custom CUI files that contain WPF Custom Controls will not work as it needs a registry entry.
Blocks
- AutoCAD may become unstable while snapping to blocks containing OLE objects.
- Editing attribute text in EATTEDIT dialog sometimes results in a fatal error.
- When a drawing is saved from within the Block Editor, the entire content of the drawing is sometimes lost and replaced with the content of the block being edited.
- Sometimes there is a delay while trying to modify blocks containing a Block Table Parameter.
- AutoCAD becomes unstable when entering the block editor, attempting to edit a dynamic block which has geometry on a locked layer.
- Sometimes the BEDIT toolbar does not get hidden after exiting block editor.
Digitizer
- You may receive an error at the command line after enabling a WinTab driver and the tablet will not function.
Display Drivers
- Integrated chipsets are unable to return available video memory correctly.
DWF
- Arcs and circles viewed on edge appear as a single line. This changes 2D DWF/DWFx drivers to plot them as a single line, rather than a polyline.
DWG
- AutoCAD may become unstable when using the "UNDO" command on drawings that are 2 gigabyte or larger.
Dimensions
- Ordinate dimensions in paper space are not correctly reflecting the distance from paper space UCS.
ETRANSMIT
- AutoCAD may become unstable while closing a drawing after etransmitting it using the COM API.
Exchange
- Autodesk Exchange may display a non-subscription link after updating to a subscription serial number.
- User login IDs that contained special characters like “@” could not log in to online services.
Express Tools
- AutoCAD may become unstable when using the NCOPY command.
- Overkill may delete polylines incorrectly when working with reversed polylines.
- Overkill may not work well when there is an arc segment in between 2 line segments.
Hatch
- AutoCAD may become unstable when using the “separate hatch” option.
Image
- Multi frame QuickBird Tiff image files may not display expected colors.
- When trying to insert an Adobe Photoshop PSD file it was not visible in the file filter list.
- AutoCAD may become unstable when inserting an AdobePhotoshop PSD file.
Layer
- Changing layer colors of layers beginning with non-alphanumeric characters may result in other layers changing colors.
- The layer state Ribbon control does not honor the apply properties viewport overrides.
MLeader
- AutoCAD may become unstable when drawings with multileaders are saved to older versions.
Modify
- AutoCAD may become unstable when editing polylines.
- NCOPY may fail to copy objects contained in blocks that were inserted into paper space.
Mtext
- Mtext Paragraph spacing value cannot be edited once a value is set.
- True Type (TTF) font text or mtext is blurry, bold, and distorted when the viewport is non-orthogonal because XY values are not exactly zero.
OLE (Object Linking & Embedding)
- AutoCAD may become unstable when copying from an Excel file back to AutoCAD.
Open/Save
- Cannot open drawing files from file Explorer if the drawing contains a "'%'" in the file name.
Other
- AutoCAD may stop responding when saving and or opening drawings with Symantec Norton 360 Version 5 installed on your system.
- You will be unable to open drawings created using a non-Autodesk product when using the Open() API.
- AutoCAD may become unstable when selecting the grid in some drawings.
- AutoCAD may become unstable after editing MTEXT in a viewport and when exiting the program.
Parametric Drawing
- Area is wrong when coincident constraints are applied to entities.
PDF Export
- AutoCAD may become unstable when using PDF Export on files that contain MS Mincho font.
PDF Underlay
- AutoCAD may become unstable when unloading a PDF underlay.
- AutoCAD may become unstable when an undefined PDF underlay is unloaded.
- AutoCAD may become unstable when plotting drawings that include “MS Mincho” to PDF.
Performance
- Drawings containing many layers may become slower with each pan and zoom operation when the ribbon is active.
- Performance improvement in 64bit COM APIs.
Plot
- You may experience data loss when sending multiple plots to Xerox printers.
- AutoCAD may become unstable when selecting plot preview.
Purge
- AutoCAD may become unstable when using the purge command.
Ribbon
- The linetype preview may be missing from the linetype dropdown in Ribbon Properties panel when opening drawings from the Application Menu.
- Ribbon Combo Box text eight may be empty when using "TEXTEDIT" on multiple dimensions.
Snaps
- With Snap enabled, the cursor does not move to snap intervals.
- Turning SNAPGRIDLEGACY ON will restore the old Snap behavior of the cursor when no command is active.
- Restores legacy SNAP behavior during certain LISP-based selection commands.
Sheet Set Manager
- Sheet List Table Context menu in Sheet Set Manager (SSM) is missing some menu items.
Tables
- Cell style is grayed out when picking inside any cell.
- The data link menu is grayed out after inserting a data link in a table.
UI Enhancements
- AutoCAD may become unstable attempting to edit a polyline vertices Pedit tangent.
- AutoCAD may become unstable in group selection where the group contains a box.
- When objects are on locked layers you are able to nudge them.
- AutoCAD may become unstable when interacting with the ViewCube while grip editing.
- When right click menus are disabled, selection or crossing right click actions are incorrect.
Visual Basic for Application
- AcFocusCtrl cannot be inserted in a VBA form.
Visual Lisp
Attribute dialog will be displayed when inserting a block with attributes based on the setvar ATTDIA value.
Visual Styles
- AutoCAD may become unstable when using osnap in a 2d hide view.
External Reference
- AutoCAD may become unstable when interacting between the open dialog and the XREF manager.
Zoom/Pan
- AutoCAD may become unstable when zooming over the XY indicator in Layout.
The Service Pack brings back the Array dialog functionality by introducing a new ARRAYCLASSIC command. It also introduces the option to restore legacy Snap behavior by controlling it through the new SNAPGRIDLEGACY system variable:
ARRAYCLASSIC
Creates copies of objects in a regularly spaced rectangular or polar array.
SNAPGRIDLEGACY
1 – Always snap the cursor to the grid
0 – Only snap the cursor to the grid when AutoCAD prompts to specify a point
As you prepare to install this Service Pack, keep the following in mind:
Back Up Custom Files
It is recommended that you back up all custom CUIX, MNR, and MNL files before you apply this Service Pack.
Administrative Privileges
During installation, you will be prompted for the original installation media or a network image. In order to apply this Service Pack, you must have administrative privileges to install and uninstall products.
Network Deployment
Administrators can deploy this Service Pack over a network using the Deployment Wizard.
About Your Product
After you install the Service Pack , updated product information displays in the About dialog box.
Reboot
After you install, it is recommended to reboot your system even if not prompted.
The following Microsoft Windows command line switches are built into this Service Pack :
Instructions about how to use the /e command line switch are included in the installation procedures that follow.
Follow these instructions to install this Service Pack on a single computer.
You can use InfoCenter to apply this Service Pack 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 Service Pack.
In all cases, append this Service Pack to the deployment. The only time it is appropriate to merge the Service Pack is if you intend to distribute the deployment through a group policy object.
The patch (Service Pack ) 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
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