Autodesk Inventor Publisher 2013 R1
Mar 20, 2013

Release Notes - Readme file
Autodesk, Inc.

This document contains known issues and troubleshooting tips for Autodesk Inventor Publisher 2013 R1. The hardware and software requirements for the application are included and we recommend that you configure your machine before you get started. If you experience problems not covered in this Readme, please contact the Inventor Publisher team by sending an email to FeedbackPublisher@autodesk.com.

 

 



 

 

 

 

NOTES ABOUT INSTALLATION

 

 

 

INSTALLATION REQUIREMENTS

 

 

 

 

 

 

GENERAL NOTES

 

Software Requirements

§  Adobe® Flash® Player 9.0 or higher.

§  Latest Graphic Card driver with Microsoft certification for WHQL.

 

Hardware requirements

§  Different levels of hardware can support different data capacity levels:

 

Hardware

Minimum

Preferred

Processor

Intel® Pentium® 4, AMD Athlon™, AMD Opteron™, or later (with SSE2 support) 2 GHz

Intel® Pentium® 4, AMD Athlon™, AMD Opteron™, or later (with SSE2 support) 3 GHz

RAM

32-bit system: 1 GB

64-bit system: 2 GB

32-bit system: 2 GB

64-bit system: 4 GB

 

§  Autodesk Inventor Publisher 2013 R1 requires a minimum capability of Pixel Shader 3.0 and 256MB video RAM. As a guideline, the following graphics cards support Pixel Shader 3.0:

 

NVIDIA

ATI (AMD)

GeForce series 7, 8, 9 and higher

Radeon X

GeForce GT and GTX

FireGL X and V (all models)

Quadro FX after FX1500

FirePro (all models)

Quadro NVS after 280

 

 

 

 

 

 

SUMMARY OF KNOWN ISSUES IN AUTODESK INVENTOR PUBLISHER 2013 R1

 

Graphic Cards Related

 

§  Publisher cannot run correctly on a computer with the graphic card Matrox M9140.

 

 

Install and Uninstall

 

§  Uninstalling Publisher does not remove the shortcut of Publisher 2013 R1 and the installed features item in control panel.

 

Insert DWG

 

§  Publisher does not support Light, Animation, 2D sketch and Dimension of DWG.

§  Publisher does not support DWG files containing section components and AEC DWG files.

§  Publisher does not support color and material for surface in DWG 3D files.

 

Insert Inventor File

 

§  Inventor R8 and earlier files are not supported in Publisher.

§  Publisher does not support home camera and surface in Inventor file.

§  Weld Beads are imported as components in Publisher.

§  Decal may not import correctly when the part imported using non-default faceting options.

 

Material

 

§  If the realistic color and shaded color are not the same in an Inventor file, Publisher inserts the realistic color of the model.

 

Update

 

§  The -“Update”- capability is limited to Inventor files, Fusion DWG and 123D files.

§  If you get duplicate items in the browser after update components, please delete and re-insert the Inventor files.

 

View Tools

 

§  The Home view in Publisher is not synchronized with the Home view in Inventor.

 

SketchBook

 

§  Publisher does not respond when SketchBook Designer is opened for Image annotation editing, until after SketchBook Designer is closed after editing.

 

Parts List

 

§  Before you can use the new Parts List feature on existing IPB files, it is required that you use the Update command to retrieve the BOM information from the Inventor assembly file.

 

Publish DWF

 

§  The duration of a Snapshot cannot be published to DWF.

§  Callouts, labels, 2D AutoCAD blocks, images and attached images cannot be published to DWF.

§  Rendering styles, detail views,dimensions, parts list tables, trails and section views cannot be published to DWF.

§  The DWF materials that are overridden by Publisher cannot be export to DWF.

§  Halo effect cannot be published to DWF.

§  The active view of a published DWF file in ADR is not the active snapshot in Publisher.

 

Publish Image

 

§  The floor reflection effect is not published to an image correctly if the width or height resolution is larger than 2048 pixels.

 

Publish Web and Mobile

 

§  The DWF material that is overridden by Publisher cannot be exported to mobile.

§  Dimensions, parts list tables, trails, section views and rendering styles cannot be published to mobile.

§  Some invisible arrows display as visible after you publish it to Web and Mobile online.

§  After you publish to Web and mobile online, the model material hides behind the model in some cases.

§  The color of a part sometimes changes after you publish it to Web and Mobile online.

§  The model in mobile output viewed in a Web browser will disappear if you rotate it to a special angle.

§  The published instruction file does not play if you use the default name on the Japanese version of Publisher.

 

Publish PDF

 

§  Only models and arrows can be published to 3D PDF.

 

Word Add-in:

 

§  If you install more than one version of Autodesk Inventor Publisher on the same computer, use the control panel to uninstall any previous Autodesk Inventor Publisher Word Add-in.

§  You can manually install Word Add-in by double clicking the vsto file from Publisher install path: '<Install Drive>:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor Publisher <Version>\Autodesk.Catalyst.Novastar.PlugIns.WordAddin.vsto' if you fail to load it in Microsoft Office 2010 or 2013.

Legal Notice

 

Autodesk Inventor, Autodesk Inventor Publisher, Autodesk Vault, Autodesk Data Management Server, Autodesk Productstream, Autodesk Autoloader, AutoCAD, AutoCAD Mechanical, Mechanical Desktop, and AutoCAD Electrical, are trademarks or registered trademarks of Autodesk, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries.

 

Windows 2000, Windows 2003 server, Windows 2000 server, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Microsoft Office XP, Microsoft Office 2000, Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Office 2010, Microsoft Office 2013, Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Microsoft Excel are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.

Portions of this software copyright 1996-2008 Acresso Corporation.

 

All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

 

Thank You…

 

We thank all 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 update release.

 

Respectfully,

 

Autodesk Inventor Publisher Product Team


 

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