This readme contains important information regarding the installation and contents of this Service Pack. It is recommended that you read the entire document before you apply the Service Pack to your product. For reference save this document to your hard drive or print a copy.
Contents
You can apply this Service Pack to the following Autodesk products running on all supported operating systems and languages. Be sure to install the correct Service Pack.
32-bit Product |
Service Pack |
| Autodesk AutoCAD 2015 | AutoCAD_2015_SP2_32bit.exe |
| Autodesk AutoCAD LT 2015 | AutoCAD_LT_2015_SP2_32bit.exe |
64-bit Product |
Service Pack |
| Autodesk AutoCAD 2015 | AutoCAD_2015_SP2_64bit.exe |
| Autodesk AutoCAD LT 2015 | AutoCAD_LT_2015_SP2_64bit.exe |
This Service Pack can be applied to AutoCAD 2015 installed as a standalone application as well as AutoCAD 2015 installed from the following Autodesk Design Suites.
Note:
- Service Pack 2 also includes all of the updates from Service Pack 1.
- Service Pack 2 can be installed on either the original version or the Service Pack 1 version of AutoCAD 2015 or AutoCAD LT 2015.
As a result of the detailed information that we received from customers who used the Customer Error Reporting Utility, we were able to identify and fix a number of problems. Updates were made to the following commands and features:
Block
Service Pack 2
- Occasional crashes when inserting a parametric block from a tool palette.
- Occasional crashes when using the ribbon to insert blocks.
DB Connect
Service Pack 1
- Occasional crashes when using the DB Connect feature on a 64-bit machine with 4GB or more of RAM.
DesignCenter
Service Pack 1
- Occasional crashes when inserting a block from DesignCenter.
Image
Service Pack 2
- Occasional crashes when using Paste Special after capturing an image by Alt + Print Screen key combination.
- Occasional crashes when opening a file with embedded TIFF images.
New Tab
Service Pack 1
- Occasional crashes when clicking New in the Quick Access Toolbar or the Start Drawing tile on the New Tab page.
- Occasional crashes when clicking the New Tab Plus button after adding LayerFilterComboControl or Filter in the CUI dialog box.
Service Pack 2
- Occasional crashes when closing drawings created from a New Tab.
Status Bar
Service Pack 1
- Occasional crashes when opening drawing file when a bubble notification is still displayed.
Selection
Service Pack 2
- Occasional crashes when panning with middle mouse button immediately after selecting.
Text
Service Pack 2
- Occasional crashes when using the AutoStack feature while editing dimension text.
- Occasional crashes when copying or moving the drawing that contains shx font.
General
Service Pack 1
- Occasional crashes when choosing the "Fully open the drawing file" option that displays when opening a drawing that was previously saved in the partial open state.
- Occasional crashes when exiting AutoCAD.
Service Pack 2
- Occasional crashes when offsetting a spline.
- Occasional crashes in AutoCAD LT when the Group Manager is left open.
- Occasional crashes when closing the drawing after the second block insertion if the visual style is set to Realistic.
- Occasional crashes when panning the drawing in 3D visual style.
- Occasional crashes when exiting AutoCAD (additional to those in SP1).
- Occasional crashes when starting AutoCAD after setting the PATH environment variable.
The following defects have been fixed:
3D Modeling
Service Pack 1
- Using the ViewCube dropdown for selecting a saved UCS will not accept UCS names that contain a space.
- The SCALE command is not applied correctly for scale factors less than 1/100th.
Service Pack 2
- In certain cases, Subtract doesn't work for regions.
- In certain cases, Slice doesn't work for the 3D solid with parts that do not touch.
3D Navigation
Service Pack 2
- In certain cases, Zoom using 3D Connexion device doesn't work properly for some models.
Array
Service Pack 2
- In certain cases, AutoCAD freezes when creating classic array for the object with geometry constraints.
Block
Service Pack 2
- In certain cases, AutoCAD freezes when using array action on dynamic block with geometry and dimension constraints.
- In certain cases, Block Editor toolbar doesn't disappear from view after exiting the Block Editor.
Display
Service Pack 1
- Cursor trails display on the screen for users with Optimus or Dynamic Switchable Graphics technology.
Service Pack 2
- Draw order is not retained when pasting dynamic blocks from other drawings.
File Navigation
Service Pack 2
- The drawing preview does not display in the File Open dialog box after using DXFIN.
Hatch
Service Pack 1
- Lineweight is applied and displayed for solid hatch objects.
- Additional lines display in the selection highlighting for a solid hatch object.
- Hatch objects do not apply the LAYLOCKFADECTL or XDWGFADECTL settings.
- The angle of a gradient changes the appearance of that gradient.
- Solid hatch objects display the edge color.
Service Pack 2
- Cannot hide hatches in a clipped view.
- The transient hatch color and transparency doesn't display in the 2D Wireframe visual style.
- The cursor stops for seconds when selecting a solid hatch with a circular boundary and legacy highlighting (SELECTIONEFFECT is set to 0).
- In certain cases, AutoCAD freezes while evaluating hatch boundaries when a drawing is opened.
- Hatch is not visible on its background if hatch background color is similar and Display plot style box is checked in the Page Setup Manager.
- In certain cases, the hatch object doesn't display the correct plot style color.
- In certain cases, the ghosted image is displayed after trimming a hatch object of a block reference.
Layer
Service Pack 2
- The layer selection is lost with multiple layer selection after changing a layer property in the Layer properties Manager.
Layout
Service Pack 2
- Cannot drag and drop a layout tab to import it into Sheet Set Manager.
- Cannot duplicate a layout tab by using the CTRL key.
Plot and Publish
Service Pack 1
- In certain cases, the ViewCube will appear on plots.
Service Pack 2
- In certain cases, a hatch object inside a block displays incorrectly in Plot and Plot Preview.
- In certain cases, Publish will clip the margins.
- Publish doesn't work correctly when applying the named page setup for multiple layouts.
Point Cloud
Service Pack 2
- A memory leak issue results in a loss of performance or a crash.
- Point clouds are not selectable after cropping.
Selection
Service Pack 2
- When using the Windows Classic or Basic theme, cursor ghosting occurs when moving over the top of a layout viewport that is set to a 3D visual style.
VBA
Service Pack 1
- Unable to execute the SendCommand API in multiple drawings.
General
Service Pack 1
- The number of recently used files accepts a maximum of 10. The maximum has been restored to 50.
Service Pack 2
- In certain cases, the border of a layout viewport flashes when the cursor moves within model space in that viewport if it's set to a 3D visual style.
- Lines display in unexpected locations when the UCS is different than the WCS and the DYNMODE system variable is turned off.
- The Autodesk 360 ribbon tab is disabled when AdSync is installed from a deployment.
- In certain cases, AutoCAD freezes after running lisp a second time in Visual LISP.
- The model and layout tabs in source DWG files cannot be selected in the preview window of DWG import dialog.
- A memory issue occurs when switching between the Model tab and layout tabs.
- In certain cases, the horizontal scroll bar is not displayed.
- In certain cases, AUDIT doesn't fix the corrupted associative information in DWG file.
Security Hotfix
- This Service Pack includes the Autodesk AutoCAD Security Hotfix. This Service Pack can be applied whether that security hotfix was originally applied to your system or not.
- If you have Autodesk ReCap 2015 installed together with AutoCAD 2015, please install Autodesk ReCap 2015 Hotfix 1 via Autodesk Application Manager.
CURSORBADGE (System Variable)
Determines whether certain cursor badges are displayed in the drawing area.
Type: Integer
Saved in: Registry
Initial value: 2
1 - Turn off certain badges
2 - Turn on all badges
Badges that will be turned off:
- Selection - crossing and window selection
- Inspection
- Deletion
- Copy
- Move
- Rotate
- Scale
- Zoom
- Add vertex
- Covert to arc
- Hatch inherit property
Note: The Autodesk 360 (AdSync) patch will automatically be installed with this Service Pack.
Before you install this Service Pack, review the following information:
Back Up Custom Files
It is recommended that you back up all custom CUIX, MNR, and MNL files before you apply this Service Pack.
Administrative Privileges
During installation, you will be prompted for the original installation media or a network image. To apply this Service Pack, you must have administrative privileges to install and uninstall products.
Network Deployment
Administrators can deploy this Service Pack over a network using the Deployment Wizard.
About Your Product
After you install the Service Pack, updated product information displays in the About dialog box.
Reboot
After you install this Service Pack, it is recommended that you reboot your system even if you are not prompted to do so.
The following Microsoft Windows command line switches are built into this Service Pack:
Instructions about how to use the /e command line switch are included in the installation procedures that follow.
Follow these instructions to install this Service Pack on a single computer.
Follow these instructions to install this Service Pack on multiple computers using your local network.
Note: Installation through your local network using the CAD Manager Control Utility is not supported for this Service Pack.
The following distribution method applies only to administrative images created with the Deployment wizard. After you complete these procedures, subsequent deployments of your product will include this Service Pack.
In all cases, append this Service Pack to the deployment. The only time it is appropriate to merge the Service Pack is if you intend to distribute the deployment through a group policy object.
The patch (Service Pack) file that you download contains an MSP (Microsoft Patch) file, which you extract from the executable file using the /e (extract) switch.
<local_drive:>\<patch_name> /e <local_drive:>\< patch_name>.msp
Note: When the AutoCAD or LT Service Pack is included in a deployment, the deployment will install the Service Pack without the update files for Autodesk 360.
Note: The extraction of MSP from the service pack executable requires VC++ runtime redistributable 2010. Please make sure it is installed before extracting the MSP file.
Windows 7 / Windows 8
We want to express our appreciation to all our customers who identified these issues and reported them to us. Their reports gave us the opportunity to improve the product for everyone's benefit. We also thank you for your continued business, and for your feedback regarding this release.
Respectfully,
The Autodesk AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT Product Team
Copyright ©2014 Autodesk, Inc.