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.
Contents
Suite Components
Autodesk Factory Design Suite Premium 2012 includes the following components:
- AutoCAD Architecture 2012
- AutoCAD Mechanical 2012
- Autodesk Inventor 2012
- Autodesk Navisworks Simulate 2012
- Autodesk Inventor Fusion 2012
- Autodesk 3Ds Max Design 2012
- Autodesk Showcase 2012
- Autodesk Vault 2012
- Autodesk Factory Design Utilities for AutoCAD 2012
- Autodesk Factory Design Utilities for Inventor 2012
- Autodesk Factory Design Utilities for Navisworks 2012
Supported Operating Systems
You can use this installation with the following operating systems below.
Service Pack 2 (SP2) and Service Pack 3 (SP3) of the following:
- Microsoft® Windows® XP Home Edition
- Microsoft Windows XP Professional Edition
- Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
The following and Service Pack 1 (SP1) of the following:
- Microsoft Windows Vista® Enterprise
- Microsoft Windows Vista Business
- Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate
- Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium
- Microsoft Windows Vista Business 64-bit
- Microsoft Windows Vista Enterprise 64-bit
- Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit
- Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit
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 editions for 2012 of the components listed in this suite before starting your installation of Autodesk Factory Design Suite 2012 Premium.
A consolidated installer is provided for the release. The "setup" program located therein is a dual-platform installer, so can be used on both x86 and x64 systems.
Important
Autodesk Navisworks 2012 Exporter plugin is in sub-component list under Navisworks Simulate. If you want it to work with AutoCAD Mechanical, AutoCAD Architecture, Showcase and 3Ds Max, these should be installed along with, or before, Navsiworks Manage.
As Autodesk Factory Design Utilities for AutoCAD 2012 is listed as a sub-component under AutoCAD Architecture 2012 and AutoCAD Mechanical 2012, we 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, you can use "Control Panel" -> "Programs and Features" -> "Add or Remove Features" of Autodesk Factory Design Utilities for AutoCAD 2012 to add one or both of these two features "Register to AutoCAD Architecture" and "Register to AutoCAD Mechanical".
If installing Vault 2012 client and add-ins as part of a suite, 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 in the Vault client install, and re-select the add-ins that need to be installed.
If you encounter the failure of uninstalling Utilities by Autodesk Factory Design Suite Uninstaller, Please use control panel to uninstall the Utilities.
There is a possibility that you will encounter a problem that results in no Factory Ribbon 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 CUILOAD command and loading FACTAPPLICATION from C:\Program Files\Autodesk\ApplicationPlugins\FactApplication.bundle\Contents\Resources.
Known Issues
AutoCAD Architecture/AutoCAD Mechanical
- Not being able to REDO after an UNDO is a known problem with Factory Commands in AutoCAD Architecture 2012 and AutoCAD Mechanical 2012.
- Some assets' 2D representations are not correct, such as ES165D and HP20D in Motoman category.
- When turn off one layer, assets on this layer can't disappear because geometries of Assets are placed on Visible layer.
- Mirrored 2D assets can't get 3D replacement in Inventor after Send to Inventor. You can use Inventor mirror command as a work around.
- When you want to use Copy/Mirror/Move command with stations, please select the object first, then start these commands.
- After canceling the Edit Block Definition dialog, the factory ribbon tab commands may become disabled. You can re-enable them by reopening a file or re-launching AutoCAD.
- When you select a station as 'component' in AutoCAD Mechanical 2012, maybe you will encounter that Analysis can’t work.
Inventor
- Because pit and platform assets' BOM structure is set to Reference, 2D can't be generated when Create DWG. If you want to see them in 2D layout, you can change these assets' BOM structure to Normal.
- Sometimes the 3D asset is not positioned on its 2D overlay after Send to Inventor.
- If an assembly file has references to two different files with same name, the assembly couldn’t publish successfully. We recommend that you change one of the file names.
- After update cloud asset, sometimes the updated asset can't be placed from the Asset Library. Please close the document and open again, the updated asset can be placed now.
- If you encounter undo cannot work for placing an assembly asset, please save your document and open again, undo will work.
- If you work with a layout with a DWG Overlay added, when you go to BIM Exchange environment and export building components, the unexpected unstable will happen with Inventor.
- When send 2D NAAMS Safety Fence to Inventor, redundant connector links will be created and safety fence can't turn like in 2D. Please remove redundant connector links in Connector Links dialog by manual to make it correct. And after that, you can place new assets and free drag assets.
- Adding a complicated DWG file as an overlay may impact Inventor's performance. To improve performance, you can suppress the overlay or just let part of it visible.
- if you suppress then unsuppress a placed asset, its associated connector link will disappear in the Manage Connector Links dialog.
Factory Design Suite
- When you run a workflow in Launch Pad, make sure you have closed any existing dialog of the workflow before invoking the next workflow.
Navisworks Simulate
- When use Classic UI in Navisworks, the Factory commands will not display in the toolbar.