Autodesk Factory Design Suite 2012 Service Pack 2

August 2011

Release Notes - Readme file

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In a continuing effort to provide high quality products, Autodesk Factory Design Suite 2012 Service Pack 2 fixes, or otherwise addresses, a variety of issues. This document describes how to install the service pack and what is fixed.

 

Contents

 

Install Instructions

Summary of Issues Addressed by the Service Pack

Factory Design Utilities for Inventor 2012

Factory Design Utilities for AutoCAD 2012

Factory Design Suite 2012

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Install Instructions

·        The Service Pack is cumulative and contains all the changes made in Service Pack 1. You do not need to install Service Pack 1 before installing this Service Pack.

·        The Service Pack contains updates to only the Factory Design Utilities, independently of any platform product Service Packs.

·        The Service Pack includes both 32-bit and 64-bit versions (downloaded together as one bundle).

·        The Service Pack can be applied to every edition of Autodesk Factory Design Suite 2012: Standard, Premium and Ultimate.

·        The Service Pack can be applied to any language version of Autodesk Factory Design Suite 2012.

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Summary of Issues Addressed by the Service Pack

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

·        Republishing an asset with the same name fails.

·        CER: When adding custom connectors to assets by Connector Property Class, if no connector attributes are defined for the parameters, placing the asset causes Inventor to terminate unexpectedly. 

·        Customized User Commands are not retained in the Ribbon bar after restarting Inventor.

·        Some categories of local and Cloud-based assets are the same but translated into different words.

·        If you create a new asset based on a Cloud-based asset, the connector class does not work.

·        Publish fails when publishing the asset with a 3rd-party link that cannot be found.

·        After republish, old invalid OLE links are not removed.

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Factory Design Utilities for AutoCAD 2012

·        CER: Unexpected termination occurred in ribbon search command of AutoCAD Mechanical and AutoCAD Architecture. (Note: Only resolved in English version)

·        CER: ‘Send to Inventor’ operation may result in an unexpected termination of Inventor, especially when Cloud-based assets are downloaded in AutoCAD Mechanical and AutoCAD Architecture, but not in Inventor.

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

·        CER: AutoCAD Architecture occasionally encounters an unexpected termination when deleting a station in the graphics window.

·        Array commands in AutoCAD Mechanical or AutoCAD Architecture with stations causes an unexpected program termination.

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Factory Design Suite 2012

·        The latest opened files do not show in the 'Recent Files' tab in Autodesk Factory Design Suite 2012.

·        When launching the ‘AutoCAD Block Converter’ workflow, the option "Create Assembly with Block" does not enter the correct environment.

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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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