Inventor 2010 Service Pack 4

Service Pack 4 - for Autodesk Inventor 2010 (Builds 284 & 564)

July 1, 2011

Release Notes - Readme file
Autodesk, Inc.

In a continuing effort to provide high quality products, this Service Pack 4 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

Stress Analysis

Tube & Pipe

Autodesk Inventor 2010

Install only the bit-type version of Autodesk Inventor 2010 Service Pack 4 that corresponds to the bit-type version of your installation of Autodesk Inventor 2010 Service Pack 3.
If you previously installed the Subscription Advantage Pack for Autodesk Inventor 2010 and Subscription Advantage Pack Service Packs 2 and 3, choose the correct bit-type version of Autodesk Inventor 2010 Subscription Advantage Pack Service Pack 4.
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 4, 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.
Autodesk Inventor 2010 Installer does not support installing Autodesk Inventor 2010 Service Pack 4 through the Install/Deployment Configuration Wizard.
For AutoCAD Inventor Tooling Suite 2010 users 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, 3 and 4 or Autodesk Inventor 2010 Subscription Advantage Pack Service Pack 2, 3 and 4.
If Autodesk Inventor 2011 or 2012 is installed on the same Windows Vista or Windows 7 system, and you ran them recently, a VBA initialization error can occur when you run Autodesk Inventor 2010 Service Pack 4. To resolve the issue, reinstall either the VBA6.msi or Autodesk Inventor 2010 Service Pack 4.

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Verify you have administrator privileges on your local machine to install either Autodesk Inventor 2010 Service Pack 4 or Autodesk Inventor 2010 Subscription Advantage Pack Service Pack 4.
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 2 and Service Pack 3. Service Pack 1 is NOT required to be installed if your Autodesk Inventor 2010 installation originated from the Autodesk Inventor 2010 media set.
On Windows Vista and Windows 7 installations, disable the User Account Control feature.
The 32-bit version of Autodesk Inventor 2010 Service Pack 4 is approximately 36 MB in size. The 32-bit version of Autodesk Inventor 2010 Subscription Advantage Pack Service Pack 4 is approximately 42 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 2010 Service Pack 4 is approximately 53 MB in size. The 64-bit version of Autodesk Inventor 2010 Subscription Advantage Pack Service Pack 4 is approximately 56 MB in size. A minimum of 1,300 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 from one of the AutoCAD Inventor 2010 Suites, or from the Autodesk Inventor 2010 media set.
If you installed from one of the AutoCAD Inventor 2010 Suites, install Autodesk Inventor 2010 Service Pack 1.

Subscription customers: Install the Subscription Advantage Pack for Autodesk Inventor 2010 at this stage.

Install Autodesk Inventor 2010 Service Pack 2.

Subscription customers: Install the Subscription Advantage Pack Service Pack 2 for Autodesk Inventor 2010 at this stage.

Install Autodesk Inventor 2010 Service Pack 3.

Subscription customers: Install the Subscription Advantage Pack Service Pack 3 for Autodesk Inventor 2010 at this stage.

Download the appropriate version of Autodesk Inventor 2010 Service Pack 4, or Autodesk Inventor 2010 Subscription Advantage Pack Service Pack 4. (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 3) with Service Pack 4. 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: 284, Release: 2010 SP4 (or Build: 564, Release: 2010 SR SP4, if the Subscription Advantage Pack version was installed) the installation was successful.

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If you need to uninstall Autodesk Inventor 2010 Service Pack 4, or Subscription Advantage Pack Service Pack 4:

Completely uninstall Autodesk Inventor 2010 using “Programs and Features”, on Windows 7 and Vista, or “Add or Remove Programs”, on Windows XP.
Reinstall Autodesk Inventor 2010 from your original installation disc or network image.
Reinstall service packs as needed to return to the desired level.

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Inventor Updates

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Autodesk Inventor Professional 2010

Stress Analysis

When saving using "Save Copy As", Stress Analysis file names do not update.
FEA mesh warning labels remain, even if the mesh is successfully generated in subsequent meshing operations.

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Tube & Pipe

In certain circumstances, Place Fitting fails for non-vertical route paths.

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Autodesk Inventor 2010

API

Inventor crashes when saving a drawing where references have been replaced.
Updating a drawing document which contains replaced references in invisible mode, causes Inventor to become unstable.
The OnFileResolution event does not provide the referenced file type and redirection stream index.
If the last active view in an assembly is Master, GetLastActiveDesignViewRepresentation causes errors.
Cannot read the property ReferencedDocumentDescriptors of a Substitute.
PartDocument.FileSaveCounter is increased by one when saving a non-dirtied document.
GetLevelOfDetailRepresentations within the Apprentice FileManager returns different Levels of Detail order before and after you open a document.
RelativeFileName returns incorrect results in event OnFileResolution.

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Assembly Modeling

Activating a substitute subassembly causes constraints failures.
The overridden mass of a flexible reference sub-assembly is counted incorrectly in the mass of the parent assembly.
Demote corrupts the Degree of Freedom settings inside the occurrence tab.
Inventor crashes when you replace a frame in an assembly.

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Content Center

The value of a template parameter disappears for a Part that is published to the Content Center.
The $ character is invalid in Content Center file or folder names.
The Content Center appears empty until you log out and log back in to the Vault Server.
When publishing an Inventor 11 part file to the Content Center, unexpected behavior occurs.

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Drawing Manager

Two Bend Notes display for the same bend line - one shows Up, and the other shows Down.
Cannot reattach dimensions to center lines.
When you open a drawing, dimensions are disconnected from geometry.
After applying Service Pack 2, you cannot attach annotations to ordinate dimension sets.
Inventor crashes when inserting a feature control frame.
Hole Note information inside a drawing is incorrect when used for derived and scaled parts.
If Microsoft Office 2010 is installed, the exporting of a parts list fails.
Inventor unexpectedly exits when opening migrated Inventor R11 IDW files.
A Detail View of an Aligned Section View loses data.
Cannot disable reflections in drawings.

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Framework

VBA macros take longer to execute than launching the VBA Editor once, in 64-bit Inventor.
A crash occurs when opening a part file with over 2000 iFeature files in the iFeature Catalog.

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Frame Generator

Inventor crashes when the profile of a frame is changed to a different standard or profile type.

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Part Modeling

Recompute of some features used as iFeatures causes errors.
Inventor unexpectedly exits after you use the Split command followed by other operations on a part body.
iFeatures fail after Rebuild All.
The iFeature Insert dialog box shows "Create Package" instead of the description of the iFeature.
Inventor unexpectedly exits if you perform edits with Inventor 2010 on a Taper threaded hole made with Inventor 11.
Work Feature edits do not update the feature in the 3D Sketch environment.
Inventor crashes when a Chamfer or Fillet feature recomputes on an unstable edge.

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Sketch

Performance is slow when moving an imported logo in a 2D sketch.

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Studio

Inventor crashes during rendering.

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Translators

Export to PDF creates unreadable font characters.
Inventor crashes exporting a spline surface in the STEP format.

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Vault

Refresh from Vault overwrites any locally saved and checked out files.
Inventor 2010 does not see Content Center Ownership Transfers in a Replicated Vault Server 2011.

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Autodesk Inventor, Autodesk Vault, Autodesk Data Management Server, Autodesk Productstream, Autodesk Autoloader, AutoCAD, AutoCAD Mechanical, Mechanical Desktop, and AutoCAD Electrical, are trademarks or registered trademarks of Autodesk, Inc. in the United States and/or other countries.

Windows 2000, Windows 2003 server, Windows 2000 server, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Microsoft Office XP, Microsoft Office 2000, Microsoft Office 2003, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint, and Microsoft Excel are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.

All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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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

Legal Notice

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