Inventor 2010 Service Pack 2 - Read Me

Service Pack 2 -for Autodesk Inventor 2010 (Builds 260 & 544)

December 16, 2009

Release Notes - Read Me file
Autodesk, Inc.

In a continuing effort to provide high quality products, this Service Pack 2 for Autodesk Inventor 2010 fixes or addresses a variety of issues. This file highlights how to install the service pack, what is fixed, known issues with uninstall 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

Stress Analysis

Dynamic Simulation

Autodesk Inventor 2010

Assembly Modeling

Drawing Manager

Install only the bit-type version of Autodesk Inventor 2010 Service Pack 2 that corresponds to the bit-type version of your installation of Autodesk Inventor 2010 Service Pack 1.
If you have previously installed the Subscription Advantage Pack for Autodesk Inventor 2010, ensure you choose the correct bit-type version of Autodesk Inventor 2010 Subscription Advantage Pack Service Pack 2.
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 2, 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, sometimes a prompt displays for the original installation disc or network image.
There are no Client Updates associated with this service pack release.
Autodesk Inventor 2010 Installer does not support installing Autodesk Inventor 2010 Service Pack 2 through the Install/Deployment Configuration Wizard.
For AutoCAD Inventor Tooling Suite 2010 user only: Autodesk Inventor 2010 Service Pack 1 is the prerequisite of Autodesk Inventor Tooling Service Pack 1. If you want to install Autodesk Inventor Tooling Service Pack 1, please download and install it before installing Autodesk Inventor 2010 Service Pack 2 or Autodesk Inventor 2010 Subscription Advantage Pack Service Pack 2.

Known Service Pack 2 Un-Installation Issues

When you un-install Autodesk Inventor 2010 Service Pack 2, or Autodesk Inventor 2010 Subscription Advantage Pack Service Pack 2, all UI Ribbon and/or Application Options customizations will be lost.

To maintain your customizations and personalized options perform the following sets of operations, as Administrator on your system, starting before you uninstall Service Pack 2.

Manually locate the files which maintain the UI Ribbon customizations (one RibbonUICustomization.xml file per user profile) and make separate, independent, copies of the file for each user profile. This file, for each user of a system, as defined by each user variable, is located at:

Windows 7 & Vista: %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\Autodesk Inventor 2010
Windows XP: %USERPROFILE%\Application Data\Autodesk\Autodesk Inventor 2010

If you do NOT have the Subscription Advantage Pack for Autodesk Inventor 2010 installed, you also should perform the following operation:

Access the Registry Editor (Start > Run and type regedit) and navigate to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Autodesk\Inventor\RegistryVersion14.0.
Save this registry (to a .reg file in a central location) by right clicking on the item, selecting Export from the menu, and providing a unique file name.

You can now safely uninstall Autodesk Inventor 2010 Service Pack 2 or Autodesk Inventor 2010 Subscription Advantage Pack Service Pack 2.
Once the uninstallation of Service Pack 2 is complete, your customizations and personalized options can be restored by performing the following operations:

Each RibbonUICustomization.xml file should now be manually restored to its original location, per the paths defined by the user variables.
If the Registry was saved in step 2. above, restore the original Application Options by simply double-clicking on the .reg file generated.

Verify you have administrator privileges on your local machine to install either Autodesk Inventor 2010 Service Pack 2 or Autodesk Inventor 2010 Subscription Advantage Pack Service Pack 2.
For AutoCAD Inventor Professional Suite 2010, AutoCAD Inventor Simulation Suite 2010, AutoCAD Inventor Routed System Suite 2010, AutoCAD Inventor Suite 2010 and AutoCAD Inventor Tooling Suite 2010, please ensure you have previously installed Autodesk Inventor 2010 Service Pack 1. Service Pack 1 is NOT required to be installed if your Autodesk Inventor 2010 installation originated from the Autodesk Inventor 2010 DVD set.
On Windows Vista and Windows 7 installations, disable the User Account Control feature.
The 32-bit version of Autodesk Inventor 2010 Service Pack 2 is approximately 52 MB in size. The 32-bit version of Autodesk Inventor 2010 Subscription Advantage Pack Service Pack 2 is approximately 37 MB in size. A minimum of 700 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 2 is approximately 50 MB in size. The 64-bit version of Autodesk Inventor 2010 Subscription Advantage Pack Service Pack 2 is approximately 58 MB in size. A minimum of 700 MB of free disk space is required on the drive where your temporary files are directed.

Uninstall any previous Beta versions of Autodesk Inventor 2010.
Install Autodesk Inventor 2010 from one of the AutoCAD Inventor 2010 Suites, or from the Autodesk Inventor 2010 DVD set.
If you installed from one of the AutoCAD Inventor 2010 Suites, install Autodesk Inventor 2010 Service Pack 1.

Subscription customers should also install the Subscription Advantage Pack for Autodesk Inventor 2010 at this stage.

Download the appropriate version of Autodesk Inventor 2010 Service Pack 2, or Autodesk Inventor 2010 Subscription Advantage Pack. (32-bit or 64-bit version, depending upon the bit type of your operating system.)
Double click the .msp file to update Autodesk Inventor 2010 (Service Pack 1) with Service Pack 2. 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 InfoCenter Help pulldown, select About Inventor. If the About box displays: Build: 260, Release: 2010 SP2 (or Build: 544, Release: 2010 SP2, if the Subscription Advantage Pack version was installed) the installation was successful.

Deployment Instructions for Autodesk Inventor 2010 Subscription Advantage Pack Service Pack 2

Merging the Autodesk Inventor 2010 Subscription Advantage Pack Service Pack 2, when creating a deployment, is not supported.
The following steps are to create/modify an administrative image configuration of Autodesk Inventor 2010 with Autodesk Inventor 2010 Subscription Advantage Pack Service Pack 2. If you have previously deployed the Subscription Advantage Pack for Autodesk Inventor 2010, go directly to Step 5.

Create a deployment image from your media, at \\your_server_location\your_shared_location\your_deployment_name.
Update this image with Autodesk Inventor 2010 Service Pack 1 using either the Append or Merge options.
Download the Subscription Advantage Pack for Autodesk Inventor 2010. (Either the 32-bit or 64-bit version depending upon your operating system bit-type.) The Subscription Advantage Pack is a self-extracting executable and when run, it will uncompress Inventor2010_SR.exe under one of the following locations: C:\Autodesk\Inventor_2010_HSR\x86(x64)\x86(x64)
Run the self extracting executable and copy the Inventor2010_SR.exe, TS1109427.msp and TS1109487.msp file to the deployment folder ...\your_deployment_name\AdminImage\x86(x64)\Inventor\...
Copy the Inventor2010_SR2.msp to the deployment folder ...\your_deployment_name\AdminImage\x86(x64)\Inventor\...
Change the Deployment.ini file:

Locate YOUR_DEPLOYMENT_NAME.INI file in the following location: ...\your_deployment_name\AdminImage\...
Open YOUR_DEPLOYMENT_NAME.INI and add POSTREQUISITE=HOTFIX;HSR;HSRAIHOTFIX;HSRSP2 as follows:

PREREQUISITE=OS;WUP;VCREDIST2005x86;VCREDISTx86;DOTNET;VBA;DIRECTX;MSXML;DWGTRUEVIEW;WMF90;WSE30;IE POSTREQUISITE=HOTFIX;HSR;HSRAIHOTFIX;HSRSP2

Add the following lines to the end of the .INI file:

[HSRAIHOTFIX]
PRODUCT_NAME=TS1109487 hotfix
EXE_PATH=Inventor\TS1109487.msp
ACTION=INSTALL

[HOTFIX]
PRODUCT_NAME=TS1109427 hotfix
EXE_PATH=Inventor\TS1109427.msp
ACTION=INSTALL

[HSR]
PRODUCT_NAME=Subscription Advantage Pack for Autodesk Inventor 2010
EXE_PATH=Inventor\Inventor2010_SR.exe
EXE_PARAM=/q
ACTION=INSTALL

[HSRSP2]
PRODUCT_NAME=HSR SP2
EXE_PATH=Inventor\Inventor2010_SR2.msp
ACTION=INSTALL

Save and close YOUR_DEPLOYMENT_NAME.INI file.

Deploy the product as normal by running the shortcut: ...\your_deployment_name\YOUR_DEPLOYMENT_NAME.
If you have deployed the Subscription Advantage Pack for SP1, please only configure the SP2 for the administrative image.

Add “HSRSP2” into the POSTREQUISITE line as follows:

POSTREQUISITE=HOTFIX;HSR;HSRAIHOTFIX;HSRSP2

Add following lines to the end of the .INI file:

[HSRSP2]
PRODUCT_NAME=HSR SP2
EXE_PATH=Inventor\Inventor2010_SR2.msp
ACTION=INSTALL

To verify the installation was successful, start Autodesk Inventor. On the InfoCenter Help pulldown, select About Autodesk Inventor. If the About box displays: Build: 544, Release: 2010 SR SP2, the installation was successful.

Inventor Updates

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

Double clicking the “Simulation” browser node can lead to crash
Mesh is not out of date when you drag a component of an assembly in the graphics window.
CER: A crash occurs when you activate a simulation in which the excluded components were replaced.
Unused OLE links of result files are not removed from the browser.
Mesh view sometimes appears unresponsive if a component is Excluded from Simulation, or when you use a shrinkwrapped weldment assembly.

Dynamic Simulation

"Weld parts" command is disabled in the context menu even if a selected part is mobile.

Autodesk Inventor 2010

API

In a 64-bit Inventor, you cannot add an item with a value of type Variant to a NameValueMap.

Applications

CER: After you rename the active document in Windows Explorer, Inventor crashes when the studio environment is activated.

Assembly Modeling

Assembly features in an iAssembly factory become suppressed after migration.
CER: Crash occurs on opening, updating, or saving some assemblies.
CER: Crash occurs when an assembly sketch from a failed assembly feature is redefined.
CER: Crash occurs on rebuild all when components are replaced by an empty assembly.
CER: Crash occurs during update of the relationship of components while opening an assembly.

Content Center

Crash occurs when launching Family Properties dialog box in the Content Center Editor.
The parts from Content Center are changed to the original size after Refresh Standard Components.
Several problems have been resolved in the Update Tool and library migration.
Save As on a custom content center part keeps the original browser name and part number.

Drawing Manager

Copying blocks from AutoCAD does not work on a 32-bit machine.
CER: Saving an Inventor DWG file with an “ISO Top Left” view on a 32-bit machine does not work.
CER: Crash occasionally occurs when views containing ordinate sets from one Inventor drawing are copied to another view.
CER: Crash occurs when you create a new view containing a threaded feature on an imported part.
CER: Template attribute does not display well when it is converted to an AutoCAD DWG file.
Flat Pattern extents values do not change according to the selected member in the Parts List.
Inventor becomes significantly slower when some symbols are inserted into a sheet full of symbols.

DWG/DWF

CER: Crash occurs when publishing a DWF document while two documents with the same name are opened.

Framework

CER: Many CER issues during File Open, Save, and Close have been resolved.
CER: Crash occasionally occurs when the cursor hovers over the Materials List in the Quick Access Toolbar.
NG: In Windows 7, the Open File dialog box does not display filename and thumbnail for the first file selected.
Cannot break links to a missing linked document.
The Resolve Link dialog box does not remember the input directory.
CER: After an Assembly document is opened with the default representation, a crash occurs when you open the document a second time by specifying an alternate representation.

Part Modeling

Custom iProperties configured on an iFeature table are not taken by the part.
On a pattern along a 3D sketch, a crash occurs when the pattern orientation is switched to “Direction1”.
Error occurs when re-ordering a Pattern below a downstream Split feature in the browser.
CER: Crash occurs when an extrusion feature is edited.
CER: Crash occurs after part features are suppressed or unsuppressed.
CER: Crash occurs after a derived part containing changes to the fillet radius is updated.
CER: Crash occurs after the hole feature on an oil groove is selected during 3D Grip.
CER: Crash occurs after switching from the part environment to the drawing environment, and then switching back during 3D Grip.
CER: Crash occurs when a read-only part is closed or the material color of a part is changed during 3D Grip.
CER: Crash occurs on computing the work axis if its dependent 3D sketch line has been deleted.
CER: Crash occurs when an iFeature with a thread feature pattern is inserted.
CER: Crash occurs when a parameter node is expanded or collapsed during derive.
CER: Crash occurs when a drawing file is opened with Memory Saving Mode option on.
CER: Crash occurs when you right-click a hole feature after the center point is deleted in the weldment environment.
You cannot edit iPart or iAssembly tables via Excel in Windows 7 64-bit.
Mass Properties do not update after you edit the parameter of the Sweep Feature.

Sheet Metal

Crash occurs when you select a bend for refolding on a specific sheet metal dataset.

Sketch

Crash occurs when “all constraints” are shown in a complicated 3D sketch.
Problems sometimes occur when you add constraints on features based on sketch blocks.
CER: Crash occurs when you create fillets in a sketch.
CER: Crash occurs when you edit the projected geometry in a 2D sketch.

Vault

Crash occurs when you open an assembly after several Undo operations.
Placing a large assembly with the Vault Add-In loaded takes significantly more time than normal.
The Options button is grayed out when you try to export the file as other format.
Random crash occurs when you close a document with Vault add-in loaded.

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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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