March 4, 2013

Release Notes - Autodesk Inventor 2014 Read Me
Autodesk, Inc.

Autodesk has released Autodesk Inventor & Autodesk Inventor Professional 2014. This Read Me highlights significant known issues and provides useful information for installing and operating Inventor.

Notes About Installation and Uninstallation

Installation Requirements

Installation Instructions

General Notes

Summary of Known Issues

Autodesk Inventor Professional 2014

Dynamic Simulation

Frame Analysis

Stress Analysis

Tooling

Autodesk Inventor 2014

API

Application Functionality

Assembly Modeling

Autodesk 360

Communication Center

Drawing Manager

Enhanced Visualization

Express Mode

Materials/Appearances

Part Modeling

Point Cloud

Simplify

Translators

Legal Notice

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• Please update your operating system before you install Autodesk Inventor 2014. Reboot your system after all security updates, and so on, are installed.
• Autodesk Inventor 2014 installs .NET 4.5 on Windows 7 operating systems. If you have Autodesk Inventor 2013 installed on the same computer, it is essential that you install Update 1 for Inventor 2013 SP1.1 to correct issues with running Autodesk Inventor 2013 with .NET 4.5.
• If you are using Windows 7 on a 64-bit system, please 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 fix and related Microsoft downloads, see Autodesk Technical Solution 15492718.
• Close all Autodesk applications before installation, maintenance, or uninstallation of the software.
• If the installer prevents you from installing one or more products, pause the cursor over the red "prohibited" circle beside the product name to get more information.
• If you download the installation files to a local folder with a name that contains non-English characters, ensure that the language in Regional Settings is consistent with the language name of the local folder.
• When installing Inventor on an English operating system, we recommend that only English characters be included in the installation or deployment path.
• During uninstallation, if error 1910 displays, click OK to continue. Then manually delete the shortcut that remains on the desktop. This is a known Microsoft issue and this and similar issues are discussed on this Microsoft tech page.
• Autodesk Inventor 2014 includes a new Uninstall Tool for uninstalling the product and components. This tool recognizes and uninstalls the following components:

Autodesk Inventor Professional 2014

Autodesk Vault Basic 2014 (Client)

Autodesk ReCap

Autodesk 360

Autodesk Inventor Content Center Libraries 2014 (Desktop Content)

Autodesk Revit Equinox Interoperability for Inventor 2014

Autodesk Material Library 2014

Autodesk Material Library Base Resolution Image Library 2014

Autodesk Material Library Low Resolution Image Library 2014




The following components were installed but are not recognized by the Uninstall Tool. You will need to manually uninstall them using the Control Panel functionality.

Autodesk DWG TrueView 2014

Eco Materials Adviser for Autodesk Inventor 2014

FARO LS 1.1.501.0

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• Autodesk Inventor 2014 supports Windows 7 32-bit, Windows 7 64-bit, Windows 8 64-bit at their latest updated versions.
• Verify that you have administrator privilege on your local machine before installing Autodesk Inventor 2014.
• The multimedia learning solutions require Flash player 10 (or higher). Download from get.adobe.com/flashplayer.
• Adobe Reader is required to read documentation provided in PDF format. Download from get.adobe.com/reader.
• Verify that you have 10 GB of free hard disk space or more for the self-extracted package.
• Inventor 2014 installations on Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop are also supported.

However, Inventor 2014 will not run on XenApp with the “Citrix System Monitoring Agent Service” enabled. This Service is a part of Citrix EdgeSight and any need to run EdgeSight alongside Inventor 2014 requires contact with Citrix Support for potential workarounds.

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Disk Requirements - Autodesk Inventor 2014




This data includes Inventor disk and prerequisites disk requirements.




System	Actual Disk Required
Windows 32 bit	Total - 5.68 GB	System drive (required) – 3.55 GB
Windows 64 bit	Total - 7.76 GB	System drive (required) – 4.87 GB




Desktop Content Library	Actual Disk Required
ANSI	1,403 MB
DIN	376 MB
GOST	939 MB
ISO	267 MB
JIS & GB	651 MB
Feature	3.23 MB
Other	1,833 MB
Parker	49.3 MB
Routed Systems	6.39 MB
Sheet Metal	45.5 MB
Mold Metric	57.6 MB

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Installation

Before you begin...

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

Windows 7: Windows Update is located in the Control Panel, which is accessible from the Start menu.

Windows 8: Windows Update is located in the Control Panel, which is accessible on the desktop Charms Bar, Settings menu.

It is sometimes necessary to perform Windows Update multiple times to completely update your operating system.



2. Verify that enough disk space is available on your machine to install Autodesk Inventor 2014.



To install Autodesk Inventor 2014:



1. Download the appropriate Inventor 2014 installation files to a temporary location on your computer hard drive or insert the supplied media into its appropriate drive.

For downloaded files, access the installer by double-clicking the self-extracting executable file. Temporary extraction is to your temp folder. Operating System errors regarding very long path names can occur if this temporary location is nested too many levels deep. We recommend that you use the default destination folder, which is "c:\Autodesk", as the self-extract destination folder name. After the files are 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.

2. To set preferences, in the Install > Configure Installation dialog box, click the expandable arrow. Ensure you confirm all your preferences are set as required before starting the installation.
3. After configuration, begin the installation. When it is done, click Finish.

If a previous version of Autodesk 360 existed on your system, to use the updated version reboot the system after the installation is finishes.




If you require more detailed instructions, refer to the instructions provided with your delivered Autodesk Inventor 2014 media.

To verify the installation was successful, start Inventor. On the Help menu, select About Autodesk Inventor. If the About box displays: Build: 170, Release: 2014, the installation was successful.




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• We recommend that you use a certified graphics card, and that your graphics card driver be up to date. See the Autodesk Inventor 2013 Release cards and drivers. The certified graphics cards and drivers are also applicable to Autodesk Inventor 2014.
• For machines with certain ATI/AMD graphics cards, to avoid issues in the graphics window, use the Performance or Compatibility graphics setting instead of the Quality setting.
• For laptop computers with both an NVidia GeForce GPU and an Intel integrated GPU, change graphics from discrete GPU to Intel HD integrated graphics to ensure that Inventor 2014 works properly.
• If you installed Autodesk Inventor 2011 and 2014 and have User Account Control (UAC) enabled, use "Run as Administrator" to switch from 2014 to 2011. This procedure also applies for using the Add-in manager to change the load status of Autodesk Inventor 2011 Add-ins.
• Inventor uses TrueType and OpenType fonts. Other fonts are not supported.
• For the document window title, Autodesk Inventor 2014 follows the setting "Hide Extension for known file types" in Windows Explorer, like Microsoft Word or Excel.
• When working with assemblies with more than 25,000 components, we recommend using a 64-bit machine with 20 GB or more of physical RAM.
• On a 32-bit system, we recommend a minimum of 2 GB of RAM.
• Before using Autodesk Multi-Sheet Plot (Start Menu -> Programs -> Autodesk -> Autodesk Inventor 2014), verify that you have Autodesk Design Review installed on your machine.
• Inventor 2014 contains VBA 7 which runs natively on 64-bit Windows, which eliminates the delay in previous versions of 64-bit Inventor to load and display the VBA development environment. Macros run faster than before on 64-bit Inventor. Almost all existing macros run without any changes. The few that require changes are the macros that directly call Windows API functions. Update the declaration of the Windows API function to be 64-bit compatible.

While VBA is a suitable environment for fast prototyping and simple end-user macros, use the Inventor add-in mechanism for professional application development using C++, C# or VB.NET.

• Inventor 2014 removes support for VBA auto-run macros which are embedded in Inventor documents. These VBA macros are named: “AutoOpen”, “AutoNew”, “AutoSave”, “AutoClose” and “AutoEdit”. They can severely impact Inventor performance and pose a possible security risk. The suggested alternative to auto-run macros is to create an Inventor add-in.

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Direct Translators Supported File Versions




Translator	Import	Export
Alias	V10 or later
CATIA V4	All Revisions
CATIA V5	R6 - R22	R10 - R22
Creo Parametric	1.0; 2.0
IGES	All Revisions	5.3
JT	7.0; 8.0; 8.1; 8.2; 9.0; 9.1; 9.2; 9.3; 9.4; 9.5	7.0; 8.0; 8.1; 8.2; 9.0; 9.1; 9.2; 9.3; 9.4; 9.5
NX	Unigraphics V13 - NX 8.5
Parasolid	Up to 25.0	9.0 - 25.0
Pro/ENGINEER	Up to Wildfire 5.0
Pro/ENGINEER Granite	Up to 8.0	1.0 - 8.0
Pro/ENGINEER Neutral	N/A	N/A
Rhino	Up to 5.0
SAT	Up to 7.0	7.0
SolidWorks	2001 Plus – 2013
STEP	AP214, AP203E2	AP214, AP203E2
STL	N/A	N/A
XGL/ZGL		N/A

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Abbreviations used:


• CER refers to a Customer Error Report.
• NG refers to an item reported on the Autodesk Newsgroups.

Dynamic Simulation

• Sliding and cylindrical joints sometimes encounter an error when finding the limit condition for Dynamic Motion.
• If a component is very small, its mass is considered as zero in this environment.

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Frame Analysis

• In the Frame Analysis environment, Assembly Relationship glyphs that are not meant to display are visible, although you cannot select them.

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Stress Analysis

• Certain assembly models that contain both iAssembly and simulation data crash when you refresh the assembly or enter simulation environments.

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Tooling

• If you close and reopen a mold assembly model within the same Inventor session, you cannot perform a subsequent mold fill analysis on that model until you manually kill the persisting mitsi.exe process, or close and restart Inventor.
• A crash occurs if you close Inventor after saving a Mold Design file on Windows 8 operating system.

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API

• You cannot use Asset.Delete() to delete a shared Appearance Asset.
• You cannot use AssetCategories.Add() to add an AssetCategory that contains an Uncategorized Asset.
• You cannot use AssetCategory.Delete() to delete an AssetCategory that contains a shared Appearance Asset.

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Application Functionality

• On Windows 8 operating system, the Application window temporarily goes black when some resource demanding operations are performed.

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Assembly Modeling

• While in-place editing a grounded subassembly, if you pause the cursor over any of its components, the cursor changes to indicate a grounded component, even if the component is not grounded within the subassembly.
• When a component has a joint or constraint relationship with a work plane, performing a Free Move on that component sometimes results in visibility issues as the component passes behind the work plane in the graphics view.
• When switching between Express and Full modes, if you suppress and/or unsuppress a Joint relationship, its visibility status goes out of sync between the model browser and graphics window.

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Autodesk 360

• Installing Inventor 2014 causes the Inventor 2013 Save & Send to Cloud feature to fail to create Autodesk 360 thumbnails and 3D views for the Saved & Sent assembly files.

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Communication Center

• A crash sometimes occurs when you add a RSS feed within the InfoCenter Settings dialog, or a persistent recurrence of a No RSS Feed was found... error dialog will be seen.

Workaround: Without Inventor running, open a Windows Explorer dialog and type %appdata% in the path bar. At the c:\users\your_user_name\AppData\Roaming folder, navigate into the \Autodesk folder and manually create a \WebServices folder. The presence of this folder prevents the above behavior. Additionally, check within the Windows Task Manager for an orphaned WSCommCntr4.exe process and manually terminate it before running Inventor again.

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Drawing Manager

• You cannot use an empty row to split a drawing table.

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Enhanced Visualization

• If you invoke Print Preview for a drawing file while a part model is set to automatic Orbit in the background, an error dialog box appears.
• In assembly section view, if you orbit or pan the model, the performance is slower than Inventor 2013.

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Express Mode

• Express Mode is not available for Mold and Weldment assemblies, and the Load Express command is disabled for these assemblies.
• Express Mode does not support Realistic and Monochrome visual styles.
• Some objects in Factory files are invisible in Express mode.
• Express Mode workflows are disabled when, in the Applications Options dialog, Hardware tab, you sue the Compatibility graphics setting.
• In Express Mode, sketches and work geometry are visible only if they belong to the active top assembly, and are invisible if they belong to components.
• On the iLogic tab, Manage panel, all commands for iLogic are disabled, but they are workable in the iLogic browser.
• If you saved assembly datasets from Beta builds, please open and resave them in Full mode to update the graphics data in the .iam files before you open them in Express mode.
• In Express mode, the Edit and Delete commands for iMates are available in some context menus, but are not officially supported.
• If you create a subassembly in-place in an assembly, and then create a part in-place in that subassembly, when you open the subassembly in Express mode, the part is invisible.
• Section Views activated in Express Mode sometimes render incorrectly.
• On Windows 8 operating system, the Application window intermittently goes black when you switch from Express Mode to Full Mode for large datasets.
• On the ribbon, the Tube and Pipe command is disabled after you switch from Express mode to Full mode. To make it available, right click in the graphics window, or open or create a new file.
• In Express mode, the top assembly graphics does not update when you change the Level of Detail of its sub-assembly.
• If the Design Accelerator add-in is loaded, Inventor sometimes crashes when you place a Content Center component in an assembly in Express mode.

To avoid this issue, place Content Center components in Full mode, or unload the Design Accelerator add-in while you place Content Center components in Express mode.

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Materials/Appearances

• If you place custom Content Center parts in an assembly, sometimes the appearance of a part is lost.
• A newly created empty Category in a shared Materials library is not visible to another user accessing the same library.
• You can delete a renamed Category containing appearances referenced by Material styles, which can lead to materials without appearances.
• If you share a Material or Appearance library between two different Inventor releases, unpredictable and unstable behaviors sometimes occur.
• If you encounter the error message “Cannot load the protein stream when writing storage”, please save and re-open the document to recover all materials and appearances.

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Part Modeling

• The new Self-Intersecting Sweep calculations are not used when the requested output of the Sweep operation is a surface. A workaround is to first create a Solid Sweep, and then use Delete Face to remove the end faces to get the desired surface.

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Point Cloud

• When you attach a point Cloud, Inventor hangs on certain hardware if the graphics driver is not updated to the latest version.
• A point cloud does not display in the graphics window when the Compatibility graphics setting is used.
• You cannot pack the RCS point cloud files that reference the RCP point cloud files with the Pack & Go command.
• A crash occurs when you work on 32-bit operating system with point clouds. We recommend 64-bit operating systems with a minimum of 4GB RAM.

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Simplify

• In the Recognize Revit Feature environment, if an automatic feature recognition operation (Auto Recognize, or Auto Detect in the Remove Details tool) fails to recognize features, you can manually detect features using the feature-specific Recognize tools, or enable All Faces Selectable in the Remove Details tool.
• The Auto Recognize tool hangs on certain models that have complex geometry, or contain over 1000 faces.
• When you enter the Recognize Revit Feature environment, Inventor sometimes hangs if the dataset contains over 4000 faces.
• Before you use the Close All command, please exit the Recognize Revit Feature environment.

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Translators

• Translation report does not display unit information when you import STEP, IGES, NX and SolidWorks files.

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We thank all of 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 release.




Respectfully,




Autodesk Inventor Product Team

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