Autodesk Inventor Professional 2008 SP3 (build #342) May 27, 2008 ======================================= Notice to Autodesk Inventor Customers ======================================= In a continuing effort to provide high quality products, Autodesk has released Autodesk Inventor 2008 Service Pack 3, which fixes or addresses a variety of issues pertaining to Autodesk Inventor 2008. This README file highlights how to install the patch, what has been fixed, and how to download the update. =================================================================== CONTENTS ========= - Installation Instructions - Summary of issues addressed by this Service Pack - Service Pack download information ================================================================================ INSTALLATION INSTRUCTIONS ======================== IF installed, the following existing Client Upgrade must be uninstalled prior to installing Autodesk Inventor 2008 SP3: - Autodesk Inventor 2008 SP2 Client Upgrade for ADMS 2009 Autodesk Inventor 2008 SP3 must be installed prior to installing the new client update: - Autodesk Inventor 2008 SP3 Client Update for ADMS 2009 NOTE: The client update applies to all flavors of Autodesk Inventor 2008 but should only be installed if you have a clear need to access ADMS 2009 from Inventor 2008 Service Pack 3. (1) Download the Autodesk Inventor 2008 Service Pack 3 file "inventor2008_sp3.msp" ** You must have Administrator privileges on your local machine to install Autodesk Inventor 2008 Service Pack 3. ** ** If installing on Windows Vista, ensure that the User Account Control feature is disabled to ensure successful installation. ** (2) Double-click on the downloaded file to start the install. You will also have a progress meter on your screen while the setup program is updating the files on your system. Click Finish when done. (3) If requested, please reboot your system after the service pack is installed. *For final verification, from within Autodesk Inventor, select "About Autodesk Inventor" from the Help menu. If Autodesk Inventor 2008 Service Pack 3 has been successfully installed, the About box displays: "Build: 342, Release: 2008 SP3" NOTE 1: If you perform a repair to the Autodesk Inventor 2008 SP3 install and have the Autodesk Inventor 2008 SP3 Client Upgrade for ADMS 2009 installed - you may no longer be able to connect to the ADMS 2009. To fix this you will need to uninstall Autodesk Inventor 2008 SP3 Client Update for ADMS 2009 and then reinstall it. NOTE 2: When uninstalling, ensure that Autodesk Inventor 2008 SP3 Client Update for ADMS 2009 is uninstalled prior to uninstalling Inventor 2008 SP3 or Inventor 2008 itself, and ensure Inventor is NOT running when uninstalling this Client Update. ==================================================================================== Summary of issues addressed in Autodesk Inventor 2008 Service Pack 3 include: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- NOTE: CER stands for Crash Error Report and NG stands for News Group AUTODESK INVENTOR PROFESSIONAL 2008 – MODULES ============================================= CABLE & HARNESS =============== Fixed the following issues: - NG: Only connectors with unique names can be shown in the Place Connector Views dialog - NG: Serious error when editing twist in a new Inventor session DYNAMIC SIMULATION ================== Fixed the following issues: - Definition of Input Grapher variable based on Time as reference in a localized Inventor cannot be used in another localized Inventor - NG: Stress Analysis solver fails to launch even though the update button is highlighted and results are out of date with motion loads STRESS ANALYSIS =============== TUBE & PIPE =========== Fixed the following issues: - Autoroute default solutions don't contain the simplest, or common, solution in some positions - Autoroute updates wrongly when updating the position of a component in some cases - Fail to get correct ISOGEN Output in some special cases - Include Route Centerlines option is not available on pipe run copies - Inventor crashes after inserting nodes and editing parameters values using Parameters tool - Master runs and run don't update in some special cases - Pipe segments and fittings won't populate an edited route completely, if the route was created using a flanged tee or cross as the "Elbow 90" - Tube & Pipe run doesn't update when editing angle dimensions of the derived route. - Unrequired data segments are loaded while Tube & Pipe sub-assemblies are opened ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- AUTODESK INVENTOR 2008 ====================== API === Fixed the following issues: - Cannot use custom property in expressions if the property's display name is not equal to its internal name - CER: Application.Quit method doesn't cleanly shut down Inventor - CER: Problem quitting background running Inventor after opening/closing document - CER: AttributeManager.FindAttributes method fails after undo of titleblock edit in drawings - CER: Crash on advising MouseEvents in InterationEvents::OnActivate - Document.SaveAs method works incorrectly for parts - Document.Update2 method crashes Inventor for certain sheet metal parts - iPartMember.Row property doesn't work for iPart instances in an assembly - Multiple OnOccurrenceChange events fired when placing the first occurrence - OnParameterChange event not fired for linked Excel parameters - Performance problem with the BrowserNodeDefinition.DisplayState property - Problem editing hole features created using 'On Point' placement - ReferenceKeyManager.CanBindKeyToObject crashes Inventor when attempting to bind to a non-existing entity - Wrong Vertex Indices returned in Edge::CalculateStrokes method APPLICATIONS ============ Fixed the following issues: - Design Assistant crashes when copying assembly that contains a sub-assembly created with Frame Generator - The preview in Multi-Sheet Plot is different with the one in Design Review, when printing DWF files which are published by Inventor from AutoCAD DWG files ASSEMBLY MODELING ================= Fixed the following issues: - Bill of materials crash during Renumber Item while multiple components are selected - CER: Crash after placing assembly constraint in customer dataset - CER: Crash after returning from in-place Copy Object in customer dataset - CER: Crash closing customer datasets - CER: Crash deleting flexible subassembly in customer dataset - CER: Crash during compute of assembly component pattern - CER: Crash during Rebuild All of customer dataset - CER: Crash editing derived assembly in customer dataset - CER: Crash making edge visible in customer drawing - CER: Crash on returning from broken cross part loop sketch - CER: Crash on update in customer assembly - CER: Crash opening and updating customer dataset - CER: Crash opening assembly with an unresolved derived component - CER: Crash opening customer assembly after placing and constraining in another assembly - CER: Crash updating customer adaptive assembly with parameters - CER: Crash updating mass properties from a component while a Level of Detail is active - CER: Crash updating mass properties on suppressed unresolved iPart members - CER: Crash updating work features in customer assembly - CER: Crash when closing assembly constraint dialog during constraint preview - CER: Crash when modifying or creating constraints in customer assembly - CER: Crash when moving components with a positional representation active - CER: Crash when suppressing a part in an assembly while the Engineers Notebook is selected - CER: Crashes in constraint solver - CER: Crashes migrating customer datasets - CER: Editing assembly component pattern and dismissing dialog while direction button is pressed causes crash - Crash deleting components from customer dataset - Crash deleting components from customer dataset due to iMates - Crash editing sketches in Machining Features folder - Crash inferring iMates on components place from the Design Accelerator - Crash migrating legacy customer dataset due to component patterns - Crash mirroring assembly with groove weld defined by two vertices - Crash moving CC components placed from an imported custom library - Crash opening customer dataset - Crash opening customer dataset due to Design Views - Crash using Find command to search based on degrees of freedom - Crash when clicking on iMate glyph in graphics window in Sheet metal environment - Crash when Isolating components on invalid browser items - Crash when switching between LOD reps in a specific data-set - Get Latest Version crashes when assembly is opened using a custom Level of Detail - Inconsistent updates of iParts in iAssemblies - Internal Persistence errors opening customer dataset - Library component's properties can be modified from a top level assembly - Mirror Component of sheet metal part creates an invalid part - NG: Crash updating customer drawing after updating assembly - NG: Errors using one component pattern to define the direction of another - Problems migrating customer assembly - Problems with replacing file locations in the Copy Components command CONTENT CENTER ============== Fixed the following issues: - Wrong behavior for deleting and re-adding categories and families in Favorites - Refresh checks out files which will not be modified DESIGN ACCELERATOR ================== Fixed the following issues: - NG: SHAFT - When a shaft with a Keyway is edited, the Keyway length is changed to default size DRAWING MANAGER =============== Fixed the following issues: - Adding dimensions causes hole note tolerance override to disappear - CER: Crash on copy of corrupted title block - CER: Crash when creating custom views - CER: Crash when placing a balloon after switching multiple documents using arrange all - CER: Creating bend table causes random crashes - CER: Memory savings mode causes random crashes - CER: Opening AutoCAD from Inventor using ""Open In AutoCAD"" command causes a crash" - CER: Promote dimensions to sketch causes random crashes - CER: Random crash in Print preview - CER: Random crash inserting and removing rows from a revision table - CER: Retrieve model dimensions cause crash when dimension is deleted in the model - CER: Crash deleting overlay views that share dimensions with master view - Crash while undoing title block edit - Configuration table does not get deleted when the iPart is turned to a regular part - Cross hatch is missing in broken section view - Datum target leaders move on migration to R2008 - Dimensions flip from horizontal to vertical on retrieved model dimensions - NG: AutoCAD LWPOLYLINE objects are not always correctly displayed in Inventor - NG: Dimensions change migrating R10 idws to R2008 - NG: File name in title block causes IDW to be dirty on open - NG: OLE present in title block causes IDW to be dirty on open - NG: Random crashes creating projected views - NG: unresolved OLE links cause IDW to be dirty on open - Sick dimensions does not always turn magenta - Tables from legacy drawings are lost when migrated to R2008 - Weld annotations does not migrate from R10 to R2008 DWG/DWF ======= Fixed the following issues: - If the user has blank column headers in drawing tables, they will be replaced by " ". - NG: Overridden ordinate dimension set values are not maintained on DWGOUT - Some sheet metal parts with decals may fail to publish correctly in Complete mode - VISTA: Random crashes on DWGOUT FRAME GENERATOR =============== Fixed the following issues: - Cannot use Custom properties from Frame Generator in Expressions. - Inventor crashes when deleting stale references or modifying assembly workfeatures or skeletons in Frame Generator environment - While creating a frame, inserting a tube as the element of the frame there will be a difference between the centerline of the tube and the defining route GENERAL ======= Fixed the following issues: - Cannot modify the Custom iProperties of multiple files in Windows Explorer - Installing Service Pack 1 for Windows Vista x64 makes Inventor unstable - Installing Service Pack 2 for Inventor makes Inventor unstable on Vista - Last used file is not shown in the list window on Vista - Undo dragging of the End of Part flag, while a command is active from a different document, causes Inventor to crash - ATI FireGL V3300 card and Vista Business 64 bit edition causing graphics anomalies when using D3D mode IGS/STEP/SAT ============ Fixed the following issues: - CER: Crash on opening some older Step files PART MODELING ============= Fixed the following issues: - Adaptivity fails with Sheetmetal parts in an Assembly. - CER: Crash when adding member to baseline dimension - CER: Crash when trying to update a derived part - CER: Crash after adding a column in Other tab to an iFeature with no parameter column - CER: Crash during creating the preview revolve body in surface mode with sketch has some issues - CER: Crash in naming and matching when executing Flange and Bend commands - CER: Crash on creating a contour flange based off a specific sketch - CER: Crash on creating a new flat pattern based off a sheet metal template containing flat pattern - CER: Crash on editing flat pattern orientation - CER: Crash on editing sheet metal styles in attached customer part - CER: Crash on editing thread class - CER: Crash on redefining workplane in some parts - CER: Crash when redrawing a PMxBodyNode - CER: Crash on breaking link of migrated iPart member - Crash on clicking error message in loft failure dialog - Crash when creating flange with certain bend position and API listener - Crash clicking Refresh button when placing iFeature on planar surface - Extra face is removed by Delete Face with Heal option - Parts with image are always dirtied on Open from Vault - WorkPoint should be created at the mid-length of one elliptical arc edge SKETCH ====== Fixed the following issues: - CER: Crash on populating HideAllGeoConstraints context menu - CER: Crash on populating context menu of a sketch picture - CER: Crash on trying to Solve the planar sketch - CER: Crash on creating sketch in imported STP file - CER: Crash when sketch node is updated by UpdateNodes function - CER: Crash on rendering dimensions - CER: Crash in PPMGeometry during Update - CER: Crash on adding a curve use to a sketch point - CER: Crash on using Extend command in Sketch - CER: Crash on using TrimExtend command - CER: Crash on creating a Sketch - CER: Crash on trying to make a Sketch Trim selection - CER: Crash after finish sketch from editing a customer part - CER: Crash on mirroring an over-constrained sketch in some cases - Crash on stretching the line which connecting the two offset splines - Crash when cursor moves over constraint symbol of magenta orphan projected line. - Crash when editing the sketch - Dimensions are missing when editing the rectangular pattern feature and showing Dimension which was created using the show dimension option - Inventor's response is very slow when editing sketch dimension or move sketch element KNOWN ISSUES ON WINDOWS VISTA ============================= - Shell Extensions (e.g. Design Assistant, iProperties, Pack & Go, …) may not be shown in the Inventor file context menu after Service Pack 3 is applied. You may need to run Inventor using Admin account to correct it (Select Inventor application icon using Windows Explorer, then Right Mouse Button click, select “Run as…”). - Style Library Manager may generate an error during initialization. You may need to reboot your system then launch stand-alone Project Editor (from Windows Start menu) and close it to correct this. - On Windows Vista, Import image into a sketch will fail when MS Paint is not the default editor. You may have to disable “User Account Control (UAC)” to register MS Paint as your default editor. - On Windows Vista, the layer list may not populate correctly on DWGIN Wizard DWG Preview Page. Please turn off Vista “User Account Control (UAC)” and register the file DxOemViewer.Arx in AOEMVIEW 2008 installation folder to proceed. =================================================================== Notes: ====== Autodesk Inventor 2008, Autodesk Inventor 2008 Service Pack 1, Autodesk Inventor 2008 Service Pack 2 and Autodesk Inventor 2008 Service Pack 3 use the same file formats (.iam, .ipt, .idw, .ipn, .idv, .ide). All file types can be interchanged between these versions. The size of Autodesk Inventor 2008 Service Pack 3 is approximately 30 MB. You must have a minimum of 60 MB of free disk space on the drive where your temporary files are directed for the update to complete successfully. =================================================================== SERVICE PACK DOWNLOAD LOCATION ============================== Locate the Autodesk Inventor 2008 Service Pack 3 file at: http://www.autodesk.com/inventor-updates =================================================================== We want to 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, our customers, with the best solution in mechanical design. Autodesk would also like to take this opportunity to thank you for your continued business and for the feedback regarding the content of this update release. Thank you! Respectfully, Autodesk Inventor Product Team