Inventor 2012 Service Pack 1

Service Pack 1 - for Autodesk Inventor 2012 (Build 190)

August 12, 2011

Release Notes - Readme file
Autodesk, Inc.

In a continuing effort to provide high quality products, this Service Pack 1 for Autodesk Inventor 2012 fixes or addresses a variety of issues. This file highlights how to install the service pack and what has been fixed.

Contents

Notes About Installation

Installation Requirements

Installation Instructions

Download Location

Summary of Issues Addressed by this Service Pack

Autodesk Inventor Professional 2012

Autodesk Inventor 2012

Enhanced Visualization

ESKD

Eco Materials Advisor

Install only the bit-type version of Autodesk Inventor 2012 Service Pack 1 that corresponds to the bit-type version of your installation of Autodesk Inventor 2012.
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 target machine for the final installation from that image. For more information about Network Deployments, see the Network Administrator's Guide by accessing your original installation media and select Read The Documentation in the installer.
Keep the original installation media or network image readily accessible. During installation/uninstallation, you might be prompted for the original installation media or network image.
There are no Client Updates associated with this Service Pack 1 release.

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Verify you have administrator privileges on your local machine to install Autodesk Inventor 2012 Service Pack 1.
The 32-bit version of Autodesk Inventor 2012 Service Pack 1 is approximately 30 MB in size. A minimum of 1100 MB of free disk space is required on the drive where your temporary files are directed.
The 64-bit version of Autodesk Inventor 2012 Service Pack 1 is approximately 60 MB in size. A minimum of 2000 MB of free disk space is required on the drive where your temporary files are directed.

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Installation

Update your operating system before installing Autodesk Inventor 2012 Service Pack 1. Reboot your system after the updates are installed.
Uninstall any previous Beta versions of Autodesk Inventor 2012 Service Pack 1 by following the uninstall instructions supplied with that Beta.
Download the appropriate version of Autodesk Inventor 2012 Service Pack 1; either the 32-bit or 64-bit version depending upon your operating system bit type.
Double click the .msp file to update Autodesk Inventor 2012 with Service Pack 1. A progress bar displays while the installer updates the files on your system. When done, click Finish.
If required, reboot the system after installation of the Service Pack 1 is finished.

To verify the success of the installation, start Autodesk Inventor. On the Info Center Help pull-down, select About Autodesk Inventor. 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 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 that the original installation media is available and mounted at the same location used during the installation of Autodesk Inventor 2012.

The installer process sometimes hangs 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 takes up to 6 hours. To greatly speed up the uninstall process, perform the following steps:

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

NOTE: On systems with versions of Microsoft Installer (MSI) 4.5 or older, a known issue exists where one Inventor file is reverted in only one location, not both, on uninstall. The file ...\Autodesk\Inventor 2012\Bin\2dTranslater.dll remains at version 16.1.19000.0, rather than being reverted to the RTM version of 16.0.16000.0.

To address this issue, after the uninstall completes, copy the reverted version of the file, ...\Autodesk\Inventor 2012\Compatibility\Bin\2dTranslator.dll, to the un-reverted location, replacing the 16.1.19000.0 version file at ...\Autodesk\Inventor 2012\Bin\2dTranslator.dll.

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Locate Autodesk Inventor 2012 Service Pack 1 here: Inventor Updates

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Abbreviations used:

CER refers to a Customer Error Report.
NG refers to an item reported on the Autodesk Newsgroups.

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Autodesk Inventor Professional 2012

Tube & Pipe

CER: A crash occurs when you make a Tube & Pipe Run assembly adaptive on 64-bit systems.
A crash occurs in the Tube & Pipe environment when you reset the ribbon.
The BOM structure attribute “Phantom” does not persistently save to a Tube & Pipe Run assembly.

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Cable & Harness

When there are many segments in one Harness, automatic route performance slows.

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Stress Analysis

A crash occurs after you change parameters in a certain order in the Animate dialog box.
Graphics become inconsistent after using Animate, then Convergence.
The Guide search function fails in the Simplified Chinese version of Inventor.
Legacy result files and folders are not purged from disk after re-solving and saving.
Legacy loads from 2009 or earlier releases are not recognized if results are not present.
Meshing fails for a circular fillet weld.
Cannot create a probe in specific areas in certain simulations.
The warning message "...different number of bodies than base configuration." displays when solving a parametric component instance pattern with a decreasing number of instances.

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Dynamic Simulation

The Browser pane is blank after undo then redo of entering this environment.
In Windows 7, a crash occurs when you edit a load location To or From a grounded component.

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Tooling

Inventor crashes when you change the ejector type from anti-rotation, using the check box to turn On to Off.
Nothing displays in the graphics area after creating a 2D drawing for a mold assembly on a localized build.
Runner Balance Analysis does not work if you install only Autodesk Moldflow Advisor 2012.

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Frame Analysis

Custom Constraint does not allow a degree of freedom with stiffness unless another degree of freedom is fixed.
After you generate a report with images, memory is not released.
Unable to edit Gravity magnitude.

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Autodesk Inventor 2012

API

Cannot create a radius dimension on circular drawing curves projected from spline edges.
Document.SaveAs does not return an error when the file folder specified to save to is write-protected.
Selecting a curve segment from a Drawing Curve results in selection of the wrong segment if the segment originates from a silhouette edge.
SurfaceEvaluator.GetParamAtPoint does not work correctly with .Net programs when the GuessParams argument is not initialized with valid values. An uninitialized array usually indicates that there are no guess parameters.
OnFileResolution events incorrectly honor the reference relation for iPart/iAssembly factory files.
You cannot change specific file metadata related to file paths, which creates problems with the Make Part and Make Component commands.
The OnPopulateFileMetadata event does not work correctly for the Make Part, Make Component or Copy Components commands.
SketchedSymbols.Add always inserts a symbol in activeSheet.
Unable to set the value of a parameter when placing an iFeature through the API.
CustomParameterGroup.Delete does not delete Boolean and text parameters.
When closing 64-bit Inventor, you are not prompted to save any VBA projects that have been edited.

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Assembly Modeling

Visibility of elements in an assembly pattern is not turned on if the pattern is invisible.
Edit of the extrude feature to 'Between' faces fails.
iCopy components are not in the expected position after editing iCopy.
iCopy uses the wrong components to construct the assembly patterns.
In an iAssembly with a pattern of pattern elements, BOM QTY for all members is equal to the active member.
A crash occurs after you edit a Mirror Fillet feature and then recreate the Mirror feature.
CER: A crash occurs when you open an assembly with an unresolved component.
NG: In an assembly pattern, when the total count of the component occurrences becomes too large, the performance is very slow.
When Format is set as Fractional in the Custom Property Format dialog box, the wrong drop-down list displays.
It is necessary to turn off the visibility twice before it works.

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Content Center

A crash occurs when you set the "Content Center Files" folder to a shared read only folder.

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Direct Manipulation

In the More tab within the Extrude dialog box, when you specify the taper angle with the Asymmetric option, the Shape tab opens.
CER: A crash occurs in the Assemble command while using a 3D Connexion space mouse.
The Hole command keeps the Through All termination type as the default in the Inventor session.
CER: Inventor crashes after you click a manipulator when the Face view activates.
When the default chamfer type is Two Distance and you select an edge and then invoke chamfer, the selection disappears.
After you apply a fillet, the extended section of the fillet type in the dialog box does not persist.
When using Select Other with a mouse scroll wheel, some of the selection choices are skipped.
The mini-toolbar disappears after creating a new in-place part.

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Drawing Manager

A bitmap is not visible in the title block if it is not pre-existent in the drawing.
Center marks dimension incorrectly to the ends of a slot or the end of a shaft.
The tolerance on a retrieved dimension does not update on section views.
CER: A crash occurs during View Update in Memory Save mode.
Inventor crashes when you close it directly with drawing files open.
NG: A drawing symbol is highlighted in Symbols Ribbon panel even when not active.

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Enhanced Visualization

CER: Inventor crashes when you create drawing views.
CER: Inventor crashes when editing a sketch after several undo and redo commands.
CER: Inventor crashes if D3DX9.dll or D3D10_42.dll is missing.
Inventor crashes when you create a new file if the Inventor installation path contains Chinese or Japanese characters.
Inventor sometimes crashes when you open a file twice with all shadows and image-based lighting turned on simultaneously.
The view changes when you zoom or rotate the model under ray tracing.
The transparency of ClientGraphics is incorrect after calling GraphicsNode.RenderStyle.
CER: Inventor crashes if you zoom a model in the Shaded with Hidden Edges visual style.
CER: Inventor crashes when you project hidden edges.
CER: Inventor crashes when you close it directly with some drawing files open.
CER: Inventor crashes when you open Application Options with Quality or Performance set in the Hardware settings.
Assembly models have transparency problems if you assign native mesh materials to some parts.

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ESKD

The ESKD parts list does not recognize virtual components.

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Eco Materials Advisor

Inventor crashes when you invoke the Eco Materials Adviser on the Windows XP 64-bit operating system. To address this issue the new version can be downloaded from the Autodesk Eco Materials Adviser web site.

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Framework

A crash occurs when executing the Edit View command from the marking menu to a selected drawing view in an AutoCAD DWG file.
A crash occurs when opening a part file with over 2000 iFeature files in the iFeature Catalog.
On the ribbon, Symbols panel, a drawing symbol highlights when it is not active.
After a deployment installation, only the user who installed the program has access to customized preferences.
CER: A crash occurs when you quickly activate the Open Document list two or more times from the Document tabs.
Checkmarks are missing for dimension options when they are turned on in the marking menu.
iFeature commands do not persist in the User Commands panel when they are added with other Ribbon commands.
In the Presentation environment, in the marking menu, a component marked invisible does not become visible when you turn on the Visibility option.
The marking menu is not customizable in a new modeling environment by the Inventor API.
Non-localized strings display in the Autodesk Material Library dialog box.
Route and Hose marking menu are missing in the Tube & Pipe modeling environment.
Shortcut keys Ctrl+X/C/V do not work in the InfoCenter search box.
Shortcut keys for iFeature and Macro commands do not persist when restarting Inventor.
The Factory add-in: Layout/Simulation still loads on Inventor startup despite having disabled the "Load Automatically" option in the Add-In Manager dialog.
The Redefine Feature command is exposed to UCS work features in the marking menu.
CER: The Inventor license activation dialog crashes after changing the display resolution.
Browser flyout menu shows up incorrectly in the main display while Inventor works in the secondary display.
Feature dialog box is always docking to top-left position in the graphic view window.
CER: Inventor crashes when you open a corrupted or incomplete assembly document.
CER: Inventor crashes when you expand the assembly tree in Design Assistant after the referenced assembly is closed in Inventor.

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Frame Generator

If you change a frame member size, constraints are lost.
Inventor crashes when you cancel the Miter dialog box on a French operating system.
Length does not update to the correct parameters for a Frame member.

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iLogic

CER: After you close a drawing that contains an iLogic form with parameters, Inventor crashes when you use Undo and Redo to edit a dimension.
iLogic Design Copy does not work on 64-bit machines.
Cannot apply a value to a custom property starting with "_".

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Part Modeling

Inventor crashes if you click a parameter command after you break the link with the base component.
When a solid becomes a surface because of a deleted face, the surface body folder is not created.
To insert a PDF file as an OLE link with Abode Reader X, first install the Microsoft hotfix for Knowledge Base article 2457836.
CER: Inventor crashes if you activate any row of an iAssembly.
CER: Inventor sometimes crashes if you edit a Taper Thread hole made with Inventor 11.
CER: Inventor crashes when you create a thread hole or thread feature after you edit the thread.xls using Planmaker.
Parameters for assembly sketches are not displayed in the parameters dialog box.
Features based on sketches do not update when Projection to 3D Sketch is enabled.
When multiple version of Fusion are installed on a system, the wrong version is sometimes invoked for Solid Edit.
When using Select Other with a mouse scroll wheel, some of the selection choices are skipped.
Mini-toolbar disappears after creating a new in-place part.

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Presentation

Assembly visibility control is broken under the marking menu.

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Repair Environment

Boundary Trim does not show a preview of the result.
If a sketch is not closed, and the endpoints are off the curve, a general problem exists with including tolerant geometry as the included sketch geometry. The fix is to ensure the start and end control points of a closed loop are coincident.

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Sketch

CER: A crash occurs when you create a sketch block with deleted patterns geometry.
Midpoint constraints in 3D sketches are not solving correctly.

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Studio

CER: Inventor crashes when rendering a large assembly.

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Translators

A crash occurs when you export to IGS/STP in the Engineer's Notebook environment.
CER: Inventor sometimes crashes while exporting to PDF.
Inventor is unable to read SolidWorks 2011 files.
When reading JT files that contain many disconnected shells within a single body, performance is slow.
After importing an MDT file, sketch dimensions and radial dimensions are missing.
Publishing a PDF of the current sheet updates all sheets in the drawing.
When you save an Inventor Assembly in the CATIA V5 format, and the files contain modeling errors, you cannot export some components.
Importing a CATIA V5 file sometimes results in an incorrect face normal.
Switching visibility of sub-assemblies or parts in an imported assembly throws a message about design view representation associativity.
The options for export face and surface change when you save as DWG/DXF.
User-customized iProperties are ignored in JT import and export.
Very poor performance occurs when exporting Inventor .dwg as AutoCAD Mechanical .dwg with the option "Parts only" checked.
CER: A crash occurs when you open CATIA V5 R20 files that are created with a service pack or hotfix.
The image in the drawing is not correctly exported to PDF.
Corrupted files are created when generating new DWF files in batch mode.

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Vault

After Checking in iParts, a missing file warning displays, even though the files were in the correct place when you opened the Assembly.
Data Mapping Report does not show Tables inside Reports for some of the Sample Report Templates.
During Open from Vault, Inventor crashes when the last used folder is not available in the Vault.
In some cases, when you check in the derived parts/assemblies, they show as attachments in the Vault Explorer Uses tab. This service pack does not allow Inventor files to become attachments in the Uses Tab.
Inventor crashes during Vault Operations after you log out of the Content Center Server and remain logged into the Vault Server.
Inventor crashes when you use Undo twice while editing a sketch by adding notes.
When invoking Open from Vault, the default folder is always $.
When placing a part in a large assembly while logged in to the vault, performance of Place Component is slow.
When the file on the local disk is newer or older, selecting a file for checkout from the Get Revision dialog downloads the latest version but fails to check it out.
Inventor crashes when opening iPart members that were renamed in Vault Explorer.
Enabling visibility of a part sketch in an Assembly model view does not prompt the user to Check Out the assembly.
When non-master LOD is active, working with assemblies displays a flickering Vault Update status dialog.
When Inventor DWG is checked in with Defer Update, this option is not regarded during successive open.
Inventor crashes when an IDW file is kept open with the Defer Update option, and you use Getting Revision on one of its renamed parts.

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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

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