Autodesk Factory Design Suite 2012 Service Packs 1

June 2011

Release Notes - Readme file

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In a continuing effort to provide high quality products, Autodesk Factory Design Suite 2012 Service Packs 1 fixes, or otherwise addresses, a variety of issues. This document describes what are fixed and what existing known issues are.

 

The service packs includes Autodesk Factory Design Utilities for Inventor 2012 SP1 and Autodesk Factory Design Utilities for AutoCAD 2012 SP1. They apply to every edition of Autodesk Factory Design Suite 2012; Standard, Premium and Ultimate. The service packs can be applied to any language version of Autodesk Factory Design Suite 2012.

 

Contents

 

Summary of Issues Addressed by the Service Packs

Factory Design Utilities for Inventor 2012

Factory Design Utilities for AutoCAD 2012

Known Issues

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Summary of Issues Addressed by the Service Packs

Abbreviations used:

·         CER refers to a Customer Error Report.

·         NG refers to an item reported on the Autodesk Newsgroups.

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Factory Design Utilities for Inventor 2012

·         The Smart Connection for cloud assets is not supported when opening an Inventor Factory layout assembly created from 2011 Update Pack 1 in Autodesk Inventor 2012.

·         CER: Inventor exits unexpectedly when clicking the Asset Builder command.

·         CER:  Inventor exits unexpectedly when clicking the Asset Browser after republishing an asset with a modified connector.

·         NG: Resolve dialog box appears when placing assets from a network library location.

·         Search function in the Asset Browser fails or causes Inventor to terminate unexpectedly when the network is unstable.

·         Download Failed dialog box appears several times when the cloud server connection is unavailable.

·         New instance cannot be created and machine kit fails when using an unselected asset to connect other assets.

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Factory Design Utilities for AutoCAD 2012

·         After canceling the Edit Block Definition dialog box, the Factory ribbon tab commands may become disabled.

·         AutoCAD Mechanical or AutoCAD Architecture may exit unexpectedly due to cloud assets being locked in Inventor.

·         Under Analyzing status, the Analysis process cannot be closed when switching from one dwg file to another dwg file using the Launchpad or the Create/Update DWG command.

·         CER: When Analyze is invoked, numerous undo operations may cause AutoCAD Mechanical or AutoCAD Architecture to terminate unexpectedly.

·         AutoCAD Mechanical terminates unexpectedly when selecting Factory data in some specific files.

·         Cloud Assets always display in English from the Asset Browser in the localized versions of AutoCAD Mechanical or AutoCAD Architecture.

·         Selecting a station as a ’component’ in AutoCAD Mechanical 2012 may result in the Analysis functionality not working.

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Known Issues

·         We recommend that you do not use the Array commands in AutoCAD Mechanical or AutoCAD Architecture with Stations to avoid an unexpected program termination.

 

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Thank You...

We thank all our customers who identified these issues and reported them to us. These reports give us the opportunity to improve the product and provide you with the best solution in factory design. We also thank you for your continued business and for the feedback regarding the content of this update release.

 

Respectfully,

 

Autodesk Factory Design Suite Product Team

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