Autodesk Inventor LT 2013 (Build 138)
February 24, 2012
Release Notes - Read Me file
Autodesk, Inc.
Autodesk has released Autodesk Inventor LT 2013. This readme highlights significant known issues with the
release and provides information that is useful while installing and using Inventor LT.
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- Please update your operating system before you install Autodesk Inventor LT 2013. Reboot your
system after all security updates, and so on, are installed.
- .NET 4.0 is required for the installation of Inventor LT 2013. Before you start to install
Inventor LT, verify that .NET 4.0 is installed. If it is not installed, use the installer located on the source media
under "…\3rdParty\NET\4\wcu\dotNetFramework\dotNetFx40_Full_x86_x64.exe".
- On Windows 7 64-bit systems, please verify that you have the
Microsoft fix for user mode callback exceptions KB976038. This fix ensures that Autodesk receives the correct data
from Inventor LT error reports. For more information, and access to this and related Microsoft downloads, refer to
Autodesk Technical
Solution 15492718.
- Close all Autodesk applications before you install, maintain, or uninstall the software.
- If you cannot select some products to install, pause the cursor over the red "prohibited" circle
in front of the product to get more information.
- After you finish a silent deployment installation, reboot the computer before you launch the
product. If the version of MSI in your operating system is lower than 4.0, the operating system reboots
automatically after the silent deployment install finishes.
- If you download the source files to a local folder with a name that contains non-English
characters, ensure that the language in Regional Settings is consistent with the language name of the local folder.
- If you install Autodesk Design Review 2013, it automatically uninstalls your installed
Autodesk Design Review 2012.
- When you modify a deployment on Windows XP operating systems, please make sure the version of
MSI is higher than 4.0 or installation errors will be encountered.
- Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 Redistributable SP1 (version 10.0.40219) is installed with Autodesk
Inventor LT 2013. As a result, you cannot install Autodesk Design Review 2012 afterwards due to a dependency
on Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 RTM (version 10.0.30319). To install Autodesk Design Review 2012 after installing
Inventor LT 2013, manually uninstall Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 (version 10.0.40219) and any related updates,
and reboot before you install Autodesk Design Review 2012. You can reapply Microsoft Visual C++ 2010 SP1, if
necessary, after all Autodesk installations are completed.
- In Windows 7 environments with UAC on, and with Autodesk Inventor LT 2011 pre-installed, after you
install or uninstall Inventor LT 2013, Inventor LT 2011 sometimes does not work correctly. To correct this issue,
turn off UAC and run the following two commands:
- "[Inventor LT 2011 install path]\Bin\Inventor.exe" /uninstall.
- "[Inventor LT 2011 install path]\Bin\Inventor.exe" /install
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- Inventor LT 2013 supports Windows XP 32bit SP3, Windows XP 64bit SP2, Windows 7 32bit
and Windows 7 64bit. If the operating system does not meet these requirements, please update it before attempting
an installation.
- Verify that you have administrator privilege on your local machine to install Autodesk Inventor
LT 2013.
- Installing on virtual machines is not supported.
- Some of the multimedia learning solutions require Flash Player 10 (or higher). Download from
the Adobe Flash Player Web site.
- Adobe Reader is required to read documentation provided in PDF format. Download from
get.adobe.com/reader.
- Verify that you have 10 GB of free hard disk space or more for the self-extracting executable files.
- If you plan to install both Autodesk Inventor LT 2012 and Autodesk Inventor LT 2013 on the same
system, we recommend that you install Autodesk Inventor LT 2012 (and any other Autodesk 2012 products) first.
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Disk Requirements - Autodesk Inventor LT 2013
| System |
Actual Disk Required |
| Windows 32 bit |
Total-3.2 GB |
System drive (required) – 2.3 GB |
| Windows 64 bit |
Total-4.3 GB |
System drive (required) – 2.7 GB |
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Before you begin...
- If Autodesk Inventor 2013 Beta 1, Beta 2 or Beta 3 have been installed, ensure
that they are uninstalled using the Quick Uninstall Tool for Autodesk Inventor 2013 under
Start Menu > All Programs > Autodesk > Autodesk Inventor 2013.
- Install Microsoft .NET 4.0.
- Install all Windows Updates that are pending on your machine and reboot:
Windows XP: Use the Windows Update utility located in the Control Panel.
Windows 7: Windows Update is located in the Control Panel, and on the sidebar.
It is sometimes necessary to perform Windows Update multiple times to completely update your operating system.
- Verify that enough disk space is available on your machine to install Autodesk Inventor LT 2013.
- Ensure that you installed all of the Autodesk 2012 products you plan to use with Autodesk
Inventor LT 2013.
To install Autodesk Inventor LT 2013:
- Based on the bit type of your operating system, download the appropriate installation files
to a temporary location on your system or select the appropriate DVD.
- To access the Installer Double-click the self-extracting installation executable file or
insert the DVD into your systems drive.
Temporary extraction is to your temp folder. Operating System errors, regarding very long path names, can occur if
this temporary location is nested too many levels deep. It is recommended that the extraction destination folder path
be less than 90 characters long and that you use the default destination folder as the self-extraction destination
folder name.
- After the files are extracted, or the DVD inserted, the Inventor LT installer launches
automatically. If it does not launch, browse to the temp folder or DVD and double-click setup.exe.
- In the Install > Configure Installation dialog box, click the expandable arrow to set
preferences.
Important: If you are switching languages or adding a Language Pack, ensure you browse to it and set that option
before setting any other preferences since changing a Language Pack will reset some of the installation preferences to
their default values.
- After configuration, confirm all your preferences are set as required and begin the
installation.
- When the installation is done, click Finish.
- If required, reboot the system after the installation is finished.
For more detailed instructions, please refer to the installation instructions provided with your delivered media
containing Autodesk Inventor LT 2013.
Once completed, you can verify the installation was successful by starting Autodesk Inventor LT. On the Help menu, select
About Inventor LT. If the About box displays: Build: 138, Release: 2013, the installation was successful.
To uninstall Autodesk Inventor LT 2013:
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- We recommend that you use a certified graphics card. See the Autodesk Inventor LT 2013 Release
cards and drivers. The certified graphics cards and
drivers are also applicable to Inventor LT 2013.
- If you installed Inventor LT 2013 on Windows 7, and you want User Account
Control (UAC) enabled, right-click the Inventor LT icon then select "Run as Administrator" to start Inventor
LT after installation and ensure that all necessary subcomponents are registered correctly.
- If you installed Autodesk Inventor LT 2010 and 2013, Autodesk Inventor LT 2011 and 2013
or 2010, 2011 and 2013 on Windows 7, and want to switch between versions, use "Run as Administrator" if User
Account Control (UAC) is enabled, or if your current user is not within an Administrator group.
- Inventor LT uses TrueType and OpenType fonts, and does not support other fonts.
- For the document window title, Inventor LT 2013 follows the setting "Hide Extension for
known file types" in Windows Explorer, like Microsoft Word or Excel.
- Inventor LT now loads add-ins as needed instead of loading them all at start-up. The Add-In
Manager displays if an add-in loads automatically, and whether the add-in is loaded or not. If the add-in
is not loaded Inventor LT lists the document type that causes the add-in to load.
- Inventor LT no longer loads VBA automatically when starting. Instead VBA loads on demand
(when a document with VBA loads, or you open the VBA Editor.) If you are a regular VBA user, turn on the new
“Load VBA on start-up” option in the Application Options, General tab.
- The Help installed with Autodesk Inventor LT 2013 is a subset of the full Help. The subset
includes Interactive Tutorials and Overviews, and Tooltips/Toolclips.
- If you previously installed an Inventor Beta release, right-click the ribbon, and select
Ribbon Appearance > Reset Ribbon, so that you can see all of the controls in the Quick Access Toolbar.
- On the Application Options, Hardware tab, when you select Compatibility, limited functionality
sometimes occurs, including missing thumbnails in Appearance and Material editors, on the View tab Texture
On/Off does not function, and so on.
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Abbreviations used:
- CER refers to a Customer Error Report.
- NG refers to an item reported on the Autodesk Newsgroups.
Consistent Materials
- The material and appearance Quick Access Toolbars are not updated if you add or remove
libraries from the project.
- Materials and appearances are lost from the Quick Access Toolbar after the Ribbon is reset.
- When you open and migrate legacy models, minor discrepancies in the appearance of the model
(such as color, reflectivity, shininess, transparency, texture) sometimes occur because of the conversion
from color style to material appearance.
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Enhanced Visualization
- A thread assigned with a textured appearance does not show correctly when
the appearance texture map is adjusted.
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Framework
- Inventor LT hangs when you open Inventor LT files from the shell command line as the initial start-up
after installation.
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Language Switching
- Some dialog boxes (such as the Macro dialog box) do not support Unicode. To avoid the
resulting display of junk characters when the code contains characters outside the system code page, change
the system locale to match the language.
- Some Inventor LT dialog boxes, that are MFC or system message boxes, display partly or
entirely in the language of the operating system.
- Inventor templates do not support language switching. Inventor has only one copy of
the templates which is from the installation media, not from the Language Pack. If you run Inventor with
a Language Pack, Style Conflict warning dialog boxes display when you create a DWG file. You can save the
newly created DWG files to overwrite default DWG templates.
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Part Modeling
- CER: Inventor LT crashes if you break the link for a picture inserted into a sketch.
- A crash may occur when a Stitch feature fails and you select Edit or Cancel in the error
dialog box.
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Sketch
- If you trim an equation curve using a trim line that is coincident to the curve, duplicate
points are sometimes created at the trim location. These duplicate points cause problems with feature commands
such as Extrude and Sweep. To resolve the duplicate points, use Sketch Doctor to combine duplicate points,
delete and then recreate the trim line after trimming, or use a trim line that intersects, but is not coincident
to the equation curve.
- You cannot reliably trim a 3D equation curve with a curve that has an end that is coincident to
the equation curve.
- While trimming a dimensioned equation curve, if you select the escape button or Cancel on an
error dialog box, a crash occurs.
- A crash sometimes occurs when you trim a closed equation curve or its offset curve.
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Translator
- When you import a Creo Parametric 1.0 assembly into Inventor LT, the assembly instance color is lost.
- In the Appearance Browser, the preview images for some appearances with RGB values that are not
true do not export correctly to non-Inventor LT files, but appearances with the correct RGB values and no preview
image export correctly.
- When Inventor LT files are published to the DWG file format, the texture is lost and the part
displays in the default appearance.
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We thank all of 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 release.
Respectfully,
Autodesk Inventor LT Product Team
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