March
4, 2013
Release
Notes - Autodesk Inventor LT 2014 Read Me
Autodesk, Inc.
Autodesk
has released Autodesk Inventor LT 2014. This Read Me highlights significant
known issues and provides useful information for installing and operating
Inventor LT.
Notes About Installation and
Uninstallation
·
Please update your
operating system before you install Autodesk Inventor LT 2014. Reboot your
system after all security updates, and so on, are installed.
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Autodesk Inventor LT
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 LT 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.
·
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.
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Autodesk Inventor LT
2014 includes a new Uninstall Tool for uninstalling the product and components.
This tool fails to recognize some components, such as DWG TrueView, and the
Windows Control Panel tool should be accessed to manually uninstall these
remaining components.
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Autodesk Inventor LT
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 LT 2014.
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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.
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Inventor LT 2014
installations on Citrix XenApp and XenDesktop are also supported.
However, Inventor LT 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 LT 2014 requires contact with Citrix Support for potential
workarounds.
Disk Requirements - Autodesk Inventor LT
2014
This data includes Inventor LT
disk and prerequisites disk requirements.
|
System |
Actual Disk Required |
|
|
Windows 32 bit |
Total - 3.3 GB |
System drive (required) – 2.4 GB |
|
Windows 64 bit |
Total - 4.4 GB |
System drive (required) – 2.9 GB |
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 LT 2014.
To install Autodesk Inventor LT 2014:
3.
Download the appropriate
Inventor LT 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 LT installer wizard launches automatically.
If it does not launch, browse to the folder where all files were extracted and
double-click setup.exe.
4.
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.
5.
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 LT 2014 media.
To verify the installation was
successful, start Inventor LT. On the Help menu, select About Autodesk Inventor
LT. 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
LT 2014.
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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 LT
2014 works properly.
·
If you installed
Autodesk Inventor 2011 and Inventor LT 2014 and have User Account Control (UAC)
enabled, use "Run as Administrator" to switch from Inventor LT 2014
to Inventor 2011. This procedure also applies for using the Add-in manager to
change the load status of Autodesk Inventor 2011 Add-ins.
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Inventor LT uses
TrueType and OpenType fonts. Other fonts are not supported.
·
For the document window
title, Autodesk Inventor LT 2014 follows the setting "Hide Extension for
known file types" in Windows Explorer, like Microsoft Word or Excel.
·
Before using Autodesk
Multi-Sheet Plot, verify that you have Autodesk
Design Review installed on your machine.
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 |
Abbreviations used:
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CER refers to a Customer
Error Report.
·
NG refers to an item
reported on the Autodesk Newsgroups.
·
On Windows 8 operating
system, the Application window temporarily goes black when some resource
demanding operations are performed.
·
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 LT
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 LT again.
·
You cannot use an empty
row to split a drawing table.
·
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.
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A newly created empty
Category in a shared Materials library is not visible to another user accessing
the same library.
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You can delete a renamed
Category containing appearances referenced by Material styles, which can lead
to materials without appearances.
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If you share a Material
or Appearance library between two different Inventor LT 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.
·
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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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 LT Product
Team
Copyright © 2013
Autodesk, Inc.