Autodesk® Factory Design Suite Premium 2012
Thank you for installing Autodesk® Factory Design Suite Premium 2012.

This readme contains the latest information regarding the installation and known issues for Factory Design Suite Premium 2012. We strongly recommend that you read this entire document before you continue the installation. For reference, you should save this document to your hard drive or print a copy. If you experience problems not covered in this Readme, please visit the Autodesk Product Support web site.

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Suite Components


Autodesk Factory Design Suite Premium 2012 includes the following components:



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Supported Operating Systems


Autodesk Factory Design Suites Premium 2012 supports all of the following operating environments: 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.


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Installation Instructions


Note for Beta Users: Please uninstall all the components from Autodesk Factory Design Suite 2012 Beta 1 and Beta 2, and any other 2012 editions of the components listed in this suite before starting your installation of Autodesk Factory Design Suite Premium 2012 .


A consolidated installer is provided for the release. The "setup" program is a dual-platform installer, so can be used on both x86 and x64 systems.


Important: As Autodesk Factory Design Utilities for AutoCAD 2012 is listed as a sub-component under AutoCAD Architecture 2012 and AutoCAD Mechanical 2012, we strongly recommend that you install them at the same time. Otherwise, if one of these products is installed later, the Utilities may not be available. If this happens, first uninstall Autodesk Factory Design Utilities for AutoCAD 2012 from "Control Panel". Then launch the suite installer, make sure Autodesk Factory Design Utilities for AutoCAD 2012 is checked under AutoCAD Architecture 2012 and AutoCAD Mechanical 2012, install again. 


Autodesk Navisworks 2012 Exporter plug-in is in the sub-components list under Navisworks Simulate. If you want it to work with AutoCAD Mechanical, AutoCAD Architecture, Showcase and/or 3ds Max, these should be installed along with, or before, Navisworks Simulate.


If installing Vault 2012 client and add-ins as part of a suite, the Vault add-ins may not be installed to all applications. To resolve the issue, select Uninstall/Change for the Vault client in "Control Panel" -> "Programs and Features" then select "Add or Remove features" for the Vault client install, and re-select the add-ins that need to be installed.


If you use the Factory Design Suite Uninstaller, and encounter a failure, use the Control Panel to uninstall the individual Suite components that remain.


There is a possibility that you will encounter a problem that results in no Factory Ribbon appearing in AutoCAD Architecture 2012 and AutoCAD Mechanical 2012 after the installation, especially if you had previously installed one of the Autodesk Factory Design Suite 2012 Betas. You can reload the Ribbon by running the CUI or CUILOAD command and loading FactApplication.cuix from C:\Program Files\Autodesk\ApplicationPlugins\FactApplication.bundle\Contents\Resources.


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Known Issues


AutoCAD Architecture/AutoCAD Mechanical


Inventor


Factory Design Suite


Navisworks Simulate


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