August 19, 2011

Release Notes - Read Me file
Autodesk, Inc.

In a continuing effort to provide high quality products, Autodesk has released this Service Pack 1 for the standalone version of Autodesk Inventor View 2012. This file highlights installation of the service pack.

Contents




Notes About Installation

Installation Requirements

Installation Instructions

Download Location

Legal Notice

• Use this tool to view native Autodesk Inventor 2012 CAD data.
• Autodesk Inventor 2012 already contains Autodesk Inventor View 2012 and that version is updated with Inventor by installing Autodesk Inventor 2012 Service Pack 1.
• Install only the bit-type version of Autodesk Inventor View 2012 Service Pack 1 that corresponds to the bit-type version of your installation of the standalone version of Autodesk Inventor View 2012.

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• Verify that you have administrator privileges on your local machine to install Autodesk Inventor View 2012 Service Pack 1.
• The 32-bit version of Autodesk Inventor View 2012 Service Pack 1 is approximately 18 MB in size. A minimum of 600 MB of free disk space is required on the drive where your temporary files are directed.
• The 64-bit version of Autodesk Inventor View 2012 Service Pack 1 is approximately 46 MB in size. A minimum of 800 MB of free disk space is required on the drive where your temporary files are directed.

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Installation

1. Before you install Autodesk Inventor View 2012 Service Pack 1, update your operating system and reboot your system after the updates are installed.
2. Download either the 32-bit or 64-bit version of Autodesk Inventor View 2012 Service Pack 1, depending upon the bit type of your operating system.
3. Double click the .msp file to update the standalone version of Autodesk Inventor View 2012 with Service Pack 1. A progress bar displays while the installer updates the files on your system. When done, click Finish.
4. If required, reboot the system after the service pack installation is finished.

To verify the installation was successful, start Autodesk Inventor View 2012 Service Pack 1. On the Help menu, select About Inventor View. If the About box displays: Build: 190, Release: 2012 SP1, the installation was successful.

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Uninstallation

In certain situations, the uninstallation of Autodesk Inventor View 2012 Service Pack 1 through the typical operating system uninstall capability has a dependency on the original installation media. We recommend that before you start this uninstall, ensure the original installation media is available and mounted at the same location used during the installation of Autodesk Inventor View 2012.

The installer process sometimes appears to hang as it waits for operating system file update time-outs. If the following steps do not enable the process to complete, wait until all of these file updates complete. This process can take up to 6 hours. To greatly speed up the uninstall process, perform the following steps:

1. Access Network Connections from within your systems Control Panel.
2. Disable the local area connection and all network adaptors, including virtual adaptors.
3. Once the uninstall process completes successfully, re-enable the local area connection and all network adaptors, including virtual adaptors, from within your systems Control Panel.
4. If required, reboot the system after the uninstallation of the Service Pack 1 is finished.

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Locate Autodesk Inventor View 2012 and this Service Pack 1 here: Inventor View Updates

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We thank all our customers who identified 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 View Product Team

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