June 15, 2012

Release Notes - Read Me file

Autodesk, Inc.

Autodesk has released Autodesk Inventor Engineer-to-Order 2013 R1. This readme highlights significant known issues with the release and provides information that is useful while installing and using Autodesk Inventor Engineer-to-Order Series and Server.

·         Notes About Installation

·         Installation Requirments

·         Summary of Known Issues

·         Please refer to the following readme for Inventor Professional 2013 and Inventor OEM 2013 installation instructions.

Autodesk Inventor 2013 Readme

·         If you wish to use ETO Components (aka Intent) with AutoCAD as the host, you must have AutoCAD installed prior to installing ETO Components.

·         ETO Components must be installed with the same licensing type (Network or Standalone) as the host application. So, if you already have Autodesk Inventor Pro 2013 or AutoCAD 2013 installed and intend to install ETO Components, which installs the Intent Addin for Inventor and/or AutoCAD, you need to check the license type of those applications before installing ETO Components, and install using the same license type.

·         If you have Visual Studio 2010 installed, make sure you install VS2010 SP1 before installing ETO Series. If ETO Series is installed before VS2010 SP1, you will need to manually install Silverlight.

http://www.silverlight.net/downloads

http://silverlight.codeplex.com/

Autodesk Inventor Engineer-to-Order Server

·         When Installing ETO Server on Windows Server 2008 R2, the .NET Framework 3.5.1 Feature must be installed through the server manager prior to installing ETO Server.

·         There are several Standard Intent Libraries, delivered with both ETO Series and ETO Server, that wrap functionality of third party software. Calls to these Standard Library functions will fail if the underlying third part software is not installed.

·         Microsoft Office (Excel and Word) needs to be installed in order to use the Office Library Designs.

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·         Vault Integration

·         Assemblies are made dirty when checked out from vault

·         Workaround: Disable Intent Updates (click on the traffic signal icon, turning it red) before opening an Intent assembly from Vault.

·         ETO Studio

·         Inventor 2013 ETO Addin Template

·         If you use non-ascii characters when naming the project, your addin will not get loaded into Inventor when you run the project. This is due to a failure in a copy operation when the project is built.

·         Workaround: Follow the instructions in the "How to Register/Unregister Manually" section of the Readme.txt file that is included in the addin project.

·         ETO Silverlight Web Application Template

·         If you have UAC turned on, you must run Visual Studio 2010 as Administrator (right click on the VS2010 icon and select "Run as Administrator"). This template creates a solution with two projects in it. If you do not run VS2010 as Administrator one of the projects will not get created.

·         Intent Inventor Addin

·         There is a defect preventing sketch changes in member files from saving under certain circumstances.

·         Workaround: Add <DE201>1</DE201> to the Intent.config file. If you installed with default settings, this file can be found in C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Inventor ETO Components 2013\Bin.

·         Network Licensing

·         The cascading feature of Network Licensing is broken for ETO Series. If your license server contains licenses for any of the products listed below, you need to take action to ensure that ETO Series consumes a single ETO Series license. If you do not take action, a user of ETO Series functionality will consume two product licenses, one ETO Series, and one of the products listed below. If your license server does not contain any of the products listed below, there then there is no action needed.

·         Products

·         Autodesk Inventor LT 2013

·         Autodesk Inventor 2013

·         Autodesk Inventor OEM 2013

·         Autodesk Inventor Professional 2013

·         Workaround: Configure and place an options file on the license server. For detailed information about options files, refer to Section 13 "Managing the Options File" of the LicenseAdministration.pdf file installed with the Network License Manager Tools. The default location for this file is C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Autodesk Network License Manager. Here is a summary of where the options file needs to be placed and an example describing the options file contents for a simple case.

Options File Placement

The license manager vendor daemon will find an options file meeting the following criteria:

1.       The name of the file is vendor.opt, where vendor is the vendor daemon name (adskflex.opt).

2.       The options file is located in the same folder as the license file.

If you cannot meet this criteria, then you can tell the vendor daemon where to find the options file by adding the path to the license file. Add the path to the options file in the license file as the fourth field on the VENDOR line for the application’s vendor daemon. For example:

VENDOR sampled /etc/sampled [options=]/sample_app/sampled/licenses/sampled.opt

Options File Contents

The user names in the options file are case sensitive. There is an option to turn off case sensitivity documented in the LicenseAdministration.pdf file.

Important Syntax

To create a user group:

GROUP <group name> <user list separated by white space>

To exclude a group from a certain product license type (refered to as a “feature” in the documentation):

EXCLUDE <feature> <group>

Comments in an options file start with the hash (#) symbol

It is possible to use machine ip addresses instead of user names. This is documented in the LicenseAdministrator.pdf.

Example Options File

# Add all of the ETO users into a single group

GROUP ETO_2013_USERS EmployeeB EmployeeX

# Prevent the users in ETO_2013_USERS from checking out licenses of AIP

EXCLUDE 86001INVPROSA_2013_0F GROUP ETO_2013_USERS

Reading the Options File

Once the options file has been placed, and whenever the options file is changed, you must make the vendor daemon reread the license file. This can be done with the LMTools utility. You can confirm that your options file was read in correctly by checking the license manager log file. There will be an entry in there stating the group that was excluded.

Result from this Options File

EmployeeB and EmployeeX will jump straight to the ETO license since they are not allowed to check out an Autodesk Inventor Professional license. All other employees will have no restrictions placed on them.

·         License Agreement

·         The License Agreement button, accessed from the About Dialog -> License Information button, is disabled for Inventor Professional, Inventor OEM, and ETO Components. You can find the License Agreement at:

·         <base install location>\Inventor ETO Components 2013\License\License.rtf

·         Installer - Repair ETO Components is broken

·         If you have ETO Series installed with Network Licensing, and you do a repair (via Windows Control Panel), of ETO Components, the ETO Components (Intent) Addin will no longer load.

·         Workaround:

·         Open file <base install directory>\Inventor ETO Components 2013\Bin\Intent.config with Windows Notepad

·         Change "<InstallLicenseMethod>1</InstallLicenseMethod>" to "<InstallLicenseMethod>3</InstallLicenseMethod>" and Save.

·         AutoCAD Intent Ribbon UI is blocked for German and Japanese

·         If you have ETO Series installed with AutoCAD 2013, and after you start AutoCAD Intent 2013, the Ribbon UI will be blocked.

·         Workaround:

·         Start AutoCAD Intent, in the lower-right corner click Workspace Switching.

·         Select AutoCAD Classic, Ribbon and Intent menu will be restored.

·         Samples

·         The samples are no longer installed by the ETO Series installer. They now have their own installer, which can be found here:

·         http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=18361292

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