Inventor 2010 Service Pack 1

Service Pack 1 -for Autodesk Inventor 2010 (Build 253)

August 24, 2009

Release Notes - Read Me file
Autodesk, Inc.

In a continuing effort to provide high quality products, this Service Pack 1 for Autodesk Inventor 2010 fixes or addresses a variety of issues. This file highlights how to install the service pack, what is fixed, and how to download the update.

Contents

Notes About Installation

Installation Requirements

Installation Instructions

Download Location

Summary of Issues Addressed by this Service Pack

Autodesk Inventor Professional 2010

Autodesk Inventor 2010

Install only the bit-type version of Autodesk Inventor 2010 Service Pack 1 corresponding to the bit-type version of your installation of Autodesk Inventor 2010.
For deployed installations, Append the Service Pack to your existing deployment image rather than Merge it. This is the suggested behavior for all service pack releases. Additionally, update a deployment image on the same bit-type machine as the final installation from that image.

For more information on Network Deployments, see the Network Administrators Guide. For access, insert the AutoCAD Inventor 2010 Disk 1 into your DVD drive and in the installer, click Read The Documentation.

For Network Licenses: When Inventor and AutoCAD Mechanical run on the same computer, they share a network license. Starting with the 2010 release, the Inventor license type is automatically elevated to Inventor Routed Systems, Simulation, or Professional as commands are executed. However, this feature did not simultaneously elevate the AutoCAD Mechanical license. With Service Pack 1, AutoCAD Mechanical continues to share the Inventor license as it is elevated through the network license cascading sequence. To return to the base-level license for Inventor or AutoCAD Mechanical, exit and restart the product.
Have the original installation disc or network image readily accessible. During installation, or uninstallation, you may be prompted for the original installation disc or network image.
There are no Client Updates associated with this service pack release.

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Known Service Pack 1 Un-Installation Issue

Inventor 2010 Service Pack 1 doesn't provide remove button in Add/Remove Programs list, but if necessary you you can uninstall it from the command line.

However, uninstall Inventor 2010 Service Pack 1 will result in some Inventor customer settings being lost. Please do the following steps to uninstall Inventor 2010 Service Pack 1:

Log in your machine as administrator.
Please backup the related registry items before un-installation of Service Pack 1 .

Click start-> Run, input regedit to open the Registry Editor. Find HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Sofware\Autodesk\Inventor\RegistryVersion14.0 and right click, then select "Export" to save the registry file to a .reg file.

The command line to uninsall Service Pack 1

On Windows X86: Msiexec.exe /uninstall {702F2425-1400-1000-0032-F0408A8E25CA} /package {7F4DD591-1400-0409-0000-7107D70F3DB4} /qb

On Windows X64: Msiexec.exe /uninstall {702F2425-1400-1000-0064-F0408A8E25CA} /package {144B2F95-E2C6-4317-94E7-0B9B03F133B7} /qb

Import the .reg file you created in step 1 .

Just double click the .reg file.

Un-installing Autodesk Inventor 2010 Service Pack 1 will result in all UI Ribbon customizations being lost.

In order to maintain your customizations, ensure you perform the following operations, starting before you uninstall Service Pack 1.

Manually locate the files which maintain the UI Ribbon customizations, RibbonUICustomization.xml, and make a separate, independent, copy of each for each user profile. This file, for each user of a system (as defined by each user variable), can be found can at:

On Windows XP: %USERPROFILE%\Application Data\Autodesk\Autodesk Inventor 2010
On Windows Vista: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\Autodesk Inventor 2010

Once the un-installation of Service Pack 1 has been completed, each RibbonUICustomization.xml file should be restored to its original location.

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Verify you have administrator privileges on your local machine to install Autodesk Inventor 2010 Service Pack 1.
On Windows Vista installations, disable the User Account Control feature.
The 32-bit version of Autodesk Inventor 2010 Service Pack 1 is approximately 40 MB in size. A minimum of 900 MB of free disk space is required on the drive where your temporary files are directed.
The 64-bit version of Autodesk Inventor 2010 Service Pack 1 is approximately 65 MB in size. A minimum of 1200 MB of free disk space is required on the drive where your temporary files are directed.

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Uninstall any previous Beta versions of Autodesk Inventor 2010.
Install Autodesk Inventor 2010.

If you already have Autodesk Inventor 2010 installed and have customized the UI Ribbon, ensure you backup your settings per the instructions under Notes About Installation above.

Update your operating system before installing Autodesk Inventor 2010 Service Pack 1, especially KB952696 for Vista. Reboot your system after the updates are installed.
Download the appropriate version of Autodesk Inventor 2010 Service Pack 1; either 32-bit or 64-bit, depending upon the bit type of your operating system.
Double click the .msp file to update Autodesk Inventor 2010 with Service Pack 1. A progress bar displays while the installer updates the files on your system. When done, click Finish.
If required, reboot the system after the service pack installation is finished.

To verify the installation was successful, start Autodesk Inventor. On the Help menu, select About Inventor. If the About box displays: Build: 253, Release: 2010, the installation was successful.

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Inventor Updates

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Abbreviations used:

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

Autodesk Inventor Professional 2010

Stress Analysis

Performance is improved on various operations.
The FEA Load Glyph (or labels) can be displayed in the assembly graphic view after you uncheck/check Visibility on the component.
Cross-highlight transform problems exist with constraints in a subassembly.
Surfaces cannot be selected as direction reference for loads.
Inventor crashes when you click X to close the dialog boxes of load, constraint, or local mesh control after you enter a value.
Geometry translation fails if weld beads of a subassembly are cut.
FEA audit fails to react to changes of the contour of a weld bead and update of the assembly.
Browser does not display correctly for patterned components when you isolate a part in the Stress Analysis environment. Inventor crashes sometimes on undo isolate.
Result files and report cannot be saved with a long file path or network location.
Unused OLE links are not removed after generating new results.
Simulation is not blocked if the result files in the Vault are not checked out.
Crash on closing the document if you paused an animation.
Stress Analysis report is not generated if components are not saved.
Images in stress analysis report created in Current Working Directory are invisible.
Visibility of work plane in component is lost on entering Stress Analysis environment.
Parameters and simulation results conflict in copies of the same document.
iPart member is not respected in a batch simulation where each simulation is associated with a different iPart member.
Zero results for the second simulation occur in a batch Simulation if there are features suppressed for simulation.
Modified OLE linked files, such as mesh/results, are automatically checked out from Vault when the document saves changes in simulations.

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Dynamic Simulation

Spline curve text file cannot be imported as joint imposed motion on Windows Vista.

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Cable & Harness

Multiple harnesses do not update consistently when the related connector part is moved by placing a constraint.
The content of the label box does not move with the attached wire when the wire is broken.
Work points on segments do not update when the related discontinuous segments are broken.
The Cable and Harness command cannot be enabled after switching environments between assembly and sheet metal part with flat pattern.
The Cable and Harness command cannot be enabled after another format assembly is imported.
Performance issue exists in importing harness data.

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Tube & Pipe

Failure to get correct ISOGEN output occurs for some special fittings.
Auto-generated hose segment file names are wrong while making adaptive for the second flexible hose occurrence.
MinEP generates an error when you author one piping part and do correct modifications on 64 bit operating systems.
One warning dialog pops up for a new style created with a custom elbow in some localized builds.
Redundant segments and elbows are generated in the browser when an updated route is added into a new folder with its segments and elbows.

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Autodesk Inventor 2010

API

NG: Running the GeomToDXFCommand command via the API fails for a flat pattern face.
NG: DrawingView.DrawingCurves does not return all curves in a section view with an iFeature in the model.
NG: Crash when deleting client features below the end of a part.
NG: Cannot select 3d sketch profiles if there are no visible 2d sketch profiles.
NG: OnUnSelect event does not fire if SelectionFilter is set to kSketch3DProfileFilter.
Crash when you click in the blank region of a custom browser pane within InteractionEvents.
Performance issue exists in creating and saving reference key context.
Performance issue exists in PartComponentDefinition.DeleteObjects.
Performance issue exists in PartComponentDefinition.SurfaceBodies.
BindKeyToObject fails in Apprentice if a key was stored in a previous Inventor version.
ApprenticeServerDocument.ActiveRenderStyle fails after calling ComponentOccurrence.Visible property.
Accessing thread base points using Apprentice does not return correct values.
Ribbon tabs are not created in zero document state for legacy Add-ins.
Ribbon icons appear blurry at 120 dpi.
Environment.InheritAllRibbonTabs does not work.
Cannot create split buttons with a single item in the ribbon interface.
AddMateiMateDefinition fails when passing a user parameter as the offset.
CustomInput argument is ignored for the AddCustomiPartMember method.
ActiveEditObject does not return a FlatPattern object when a flat pattern is active.
Problems occur when you are getting the selected base feature from SelectSet.
FileDialog created through the API does not honor the file name provided in PostPrivateEvent.
PostPrivateEvent does not work with specified LOD for AssemblyPlaceComponentCmd.
Cannot get the correct InitialDirectory from the context in the OnFileSaveAsDialog event.
ReplaceReference method fails for linked spreadsheets (OLE links).
OnOccurrenceChange event is not invoked when component pattern element is changed.
BrowserPane.Reorder cannot reorder components within a browser folder.
BrowserFolder selection does not work through the API.
The default VBA project is not loaded in 64 bit Inventor.
The transparency of 32 bit icons on the ribbon is being ignored.

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Applications

NG: Suppressed constraints in Studio become unsuppressed in some cases.
The Level of Detail changes to Master after running Refresh Standard Components task in Task Scheduler.
Inventor changes from Ribbon UI to Classic UI after running sequential custom tasks.

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Assembly Modeling

CER: NG: Crash on editing assembly feature pattern direction in place.
CER: NG: Crash after demoting the two components and setting the subassembly to Flexible.
Crash after suppress - unsuppress - undo - unsuppress of an assembly feature.
Crash when changing the symmetric plane for a reused pattern of a pattern.
CER: Some parameters from the Drive Constraint command will be added into the parameter table automatically.
A Fillet weld around an unclosed circle shaped profile cannot be created.
Welding symbol cannot be renamed.
NG: The Drive Constraint Dialog does not default to degrees when editing the value only.
NG: The end value is not allowed to be less than the start value in the Drive Constraint dialog.
Using an associative Design View during Derive allows sub-assemblies to be excluded.
CER: Crash when saving a target assembly which uses a part template with an empty sketch during Make Components.

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Content Center

CER: Crash occurs when working in Weldment environment and Content Center Addin is not loaded.
CER: Crash when Content Center gets materials from environments other than Part and Assembly.
NG: Content Center cannot automatically discover changes made on the Server.
NG: Problem with an instance from the published family when the iPart has a suppressed thread.
On the Ribbon UI, Place from Content Center switches to Place after you place a Content Center part in an assembly.
Renaming a column of a linked family resets the family name in a non-English Inventor.
A read-only Content Center user fails to instance a part from Content Center when working with a Vault project, when Content Center folders are mapped.
Changing the size of a Content Center component from a legacy assembly does not change the size in the browser when you use the default Content Center files folder.
Several problems in the Update Tool and library migration.
Nominal size is missing after you publish one authored tube and pipe fitting in a non-English Inventor.
PTB (Brazilian Portuguese) language is missing from Publish Part Guide.
Redundant "-" in FileName column expression after Publish Part.
Column Caption language changes back to English after editing tables in non-English Inventor.

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Design Accelerator

Incorrect values are set for materials if using Material Design scenario in Spur Gear generator with ANSI standard.

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Drawing Manager

CER: Crash on pasting crop and break-out views using frame parts.
CER: Crash when editing the arrowheads of dimensions which have different types.
CER: Crash after changing surface color to update shaded view in a drawing for a translated surface IPT file.
NG: Copy Model iProperties functionality is disabled if model space is brought in from a DWG file.
NG: Crash when using a hole note command when a dimension command is still active.
Tolerance changes from h6 to A1 if the tolerance method Limits/Fits - Stacked/Linear is changed to Limits/Fits - Show size limits/Show tolerance.
Holes with spline edges cannot be added into a hole table.
Lines are missing when a base view of the Standard Assembly Suspension Fork is created in the top view.
Drawing views of derived assemblies vanish after having changed the derivation type from Solid to Composite.

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DWG/DWF

CER: Crash when saving an AutoCAD DWG to AutoCAD DWG and then Inventor DWG.
NG: Some components with special names are lost during translation from Mechanical Desktop to Inventor.
Export face does not work in the Edit solid environment.
Custom hatches (CUST xx) in views are converted into ANSI 31 after DWG out.
The dimension for precision and tolerance changes in Save Copy As for IDW to AutoCAD DWG operations.
Some group names in DWG are wrong compared with original Inventor IDW.
Text created with non-English local fonts is not saved correctly to PDF.
The quality of graph made by polygons or triangles, when exporting to PDF, is poor.
Crash if you publish an assembly file with a locked Design View to DWF.
Inventor hangs when publishing model that contains multiple surface bodies reside in one feature to DWF.

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ESKD

Poor performance is seen when creating any ESKD symbol on a view which has many components in it.
The current sheet number does not show in the title block of a new GOST drawing template.

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Frame Generator

Frame generator no longer accepts Construction and Center lines.

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Framework

Default line layer and line style display incorrectly in the Drawing document.
The Return button is missing in the Place-In-Edit environment of a harness part.
Two Vault tabs remain in the Ribbon after you unload the Vault addin.
Ribbon items do not show text after you change the Windows theme while Inventor is running.
Incorrect contextual tabs display in the Ribbon after you import a customization file that is exported from any contextual tab.
NG: Assembly document name is not updated on the application title bar after it is saved as a different file name.
The Weld tab disappears from the Ribbon when you import the customization file from a Ribbon without a Weld tab.
Moved commands switch between expanded panel and main panel when you import the customization file from the same Ribbon.
Macro command does not persist if it is added into the Quick Access Toolbar of two or more different kinds of documents.
Ribbon height increases when you switch to different documents and reset the Ribbon with some addins loaded.
NG: Component is prehighlighted when you zoom in/out with the mouse wheel, even when Enable Prehighlight is disabled.
The Zoom commands sometimes switches incorrectly in the Zoom combo box. Zoom selected is always the default in the Zoom combo box.
Cannot switch center point/centerline to a general point/construction centerline in an Assembly 2D sketch.
Crash when you drag a blank floating User Commands panel back to the Ribbon.
Import function does not work in the Customize User Commands dialog box when User Commands customization exists in the Ribbon.
Inventor application suspends when you import Ribbon customization from a floating Ribbon panel.
Application menu sometimes stops responding when you set the Ribbon to Minimize to Panel titles.
Commands are added or removed from the list when you double-click or left double-click in any list area in the Customize User Commands dialog box.
CER: Crash when you view the application menu after setting NoRecentDocsHistory to be 1(true) in the Microsoft Windows Explorer registry.
Crash when you pause the cursor over an addin command in the floating Ribbon panel to display the tooltip, and a model dialog box is open.
CER: Crash if an exception occurs when closing a Microsoft ADODB connection.
Customization of the Quick Access Toolbar is not persistent.
Protected macros in a locked VBA project are not shown in the Customization dialog box.
The Ribbon language is that of the operating system, instead of the the language installed with Inventor.
In the Repeat Last Command list, Shortcut/Alias Quick Reference, or context menu, the command name is shown either omitting the space character, or inserting non-printable characters.

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Part Modeling

CER: Crash when you rotate a part, then zoom in/out.
CER: Crash when you Edit Sketch text of an Emboss feature.
CER: Crash as rolling the End Of Part over an Extrusion.
CER: Crash when you edit an extrusion with the terminated 3D sketch point deleted.
Error Save method of Workbook class failed, on iParts.
CER: Crash when you edit a loft with a mixed profile and then delete the profile.
Mass Properties are not accurate when deleting a face in the solid edit environment.
CER: Crash in Offset Naming.
CER: Crash when you do a Cross Section Analysis.
CER: Crash in the parameters dialog box when activating Custom Property Format.
CER: Crash when extracting an iFeature from a part with a feature pattern.
NG: None of the features highlight in the browser after we close then re-open a part, and edit a Mirror/Pattern Feature.
CER: Crash when you do a dirty edit to Replace Face.
CER: Crash in face selections.
CER: Crash in Face/Edge selections.
CER: Crash due to bad edge selection.
NG: Extend dialog box does not remember the last used parameter values.
CER: Crash when edit Thread of placed Content Center part.
CER: Crash on computing a work point with its dependent 3D point deleted.
Loop Select does not work for a work point.
Extrude feature creates additional, incorrect, web geometry.

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Sheet Metal

Adaptivity in a Sheet metal flange does not work for either the old or the new method.
CER: Crash on editing flange length while the cursor is on the flange preview graphic.
CER: Crash while editing flange height datum for a complex part
An unfolded and refolded contour roll containing a corner round cannot be unfolded correctly.
Unrolled/unfolded adjacent contour rolls cannot be flat patterned correctly.
NG: A contour roll with fillets cannot be flat patterned correctly.
There is a problem/crash while editing flat pattern extrude features.
The complete unfolding of mirrored adjacent contour rolls cannot be refolded and flat patterned.
An unfolded contour flange containing a punch cannot be flat patterned.
The flat pattern of an unfolded and refolded part containing a certain iFeature/punch puts Inventor into a bad state.
A die formed lofted flange using certain arc and elliptical profiles cannot be unfolded and refolded.
Unfolding an inner folded piece causes a flat pattern to fail.
The folded model shape and flat pattern of an unfolded and refolded cone are not the same as those prior to unfolding and refolding.

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Sketch

Inventor crashes when you drag sketch points over other entities.
Inventor sometimes crashes if you change a spacing value to less than 1 in the sketch Text command.
Inventor crashes when you show constraints by pausing the cursor on geometry in the drawing sketch environment.
Added an option to a Close Loop command command message dialog to have it not show again.
Improper space key behavior occurs when you use right to left languages in the sketch Text command.
Inventor crashes if you delete dependent geometry of a Project Cut Edge and re-compute the project edge.
Memory leak exists in the Rebuild All command.
CER: An extra parameter is generated and a following crash occurs if a Derive source block contains a parameter which references another parameter.
CER: Unexpected results after creating a block for primitive geometries which have equal constraints with projected geometries.
CER: Crash when copy/paste a sketch that contains deep level flexible block.
CER: Crash when an offset command is performed after dragging a flexible nested block.

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Translators

AEC Exchange: Exported ADSK files cause an unexpected exit of Revit.
CATIA V5: Inventor hangs when exporting a CATIA V5 format file using [8-bit 2-byte] account.
CATIA V5: Face is missing on reading a CATIA V5 nut file.
CER: STEP: Inventor crashes on reading a STEP file containing surface data generated from an IGES file.
NX: Geometry is missing on an NX assembly imported as a single part with single composite feature selected.
STL: All closed surfaces are exported as solids if an assembly contains cut features.
STL: Incorrect instance location when exporting an assembly file in STL format.
STL: Invisible parts, in indirect level, are still exported.
STL: Welds are missing on exporting to STL format.

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Vault

Unable to place the assembly with Master LOD from vault if the last active check in view is custom LOD.
Unable to save the un-migrated components if the top assembly is saved first.
Unable to create component when open/place from Content Center as a read only user with folders already mapped.
File missing prompt pops up when you open/place multiple files from vault.
Resolve dialog box displays when you open/place the master view from vault.
Serious performance regressions occur when Check In files with DWF publish turned on.
Inventor changes from Ribbon UI to Classic UI after you execute a Task Scheduler Check In task with DWF publish turned on.
CER: Inventor crashes when you select a drawing from vault to open in IPN create view.
CER: Inventor crashes when you place an assembly with the iMate option Interactively Place with iMate turned on.
CER: Inventor crashes when you create a new assembly right after you place an assembly with master LOD whose last active LOD is non-master.
CER: Inventor crashes when you suppress all the parts of an assembly after activate a series of LODs of the previous opened assembly.
Files fail to check in if the Unique File Name option is turned on or security problems exist with the Folders in Vault.
File is always to be saved after Open from Vault if the part file contains an image.
Performance is slow when you place an assembly if the vault add-in is loaded.
Visualization (DWF) file is always checked out if the part file is checked in without modification.

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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 mechanical design. We also thank you for your continued business and for the feedback regarding the content of this update release.

Respectfully,

Autodesk Inventor Product Team

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Notes About Installation

Installation Requirements

Installation Instructions

Download Location

Summary of Issues Addressed by this Service Pack

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