Thank you for downloading Autodesk AutoCAD® Mechanical 2015 Service Pack 1
This readme contains the latest information regarding the installation and use of the Service Pack. We strongly recommend that you read the entire document before you apply the Service Pack to your product. For reference, you save or print this document.
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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 for your software.
32-bit Product |
Service Pack |
Autodesk AutoCAD Mechanical 2015 | ACM2015SP1_32bit.exe |
64-bit Product |
Service Pack |
Autodesk AutoCAD Mechanical 2015 | ACM2015SP1_64bit.exe |
This Service Pack can be applied to AutoCAD Mechanical 2015 installed as a standalone application as well as AutoCAD Mechanical 2015 installed from the following Autodesk Design Suites.
As a result of the detailed information that we received from customers who used the Customer Error Reporting Utility, several problems were identified and fixed. Updates have been made in the following commands and features:
DB Connect
- Occasional crashes when using DB Connect feature on 64-bit machines with 4GB and more RAM.
Status Bar
- Occasional crashes when opening drawing file when a bubble notification is still displayed.
New Tab
- 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.
Design Center
- Occasional crashes when inserting a block from Design Center on the second time.
General
- Occasional crashes when selecting the "Fully open the drawing file" option that displays when opening a drawing that was saved in the partial open state.
- Occasional crashes when exiting AutoCAD Mechanical.
This service pack also includes AutoCAD 2015 Service Pack 1. Please refer to the AutoCAD 2015 Service Pack 1 readme for more information on the issues resolved.
The following issues have been addressed by AutoCAD Mechanical 2015 Service Pack 1:
File Open
- Double-clicking on a DWG file in Windows File Explorer will open the drawing in a new session of AutoCAD Mechanical.
Detail View
- Detail View labels are shifted from their original positions when opening drawings from previous releases of AutoCAD Mechanical.
Scale Area
- The text height of the dimension value changes when length scaling is selected in the Scale Area dialog box.
Vault
- Some drawing files getting corrupted when the file is saved during check-in, as opposed to explicitly saving the file first and checking it in after that.
Note: Please install Cumulative Hotfix 2 for Autodesk Vault 2015 SP0 (in addition to this service pack) to complete the installation of this fix.
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 Mechanical 2015, please install Autodesk ReCap 2015 Hotfix 1 via Autodesk Application Manager.
CURSORBADGE (System Variable)
Controls the display of visual aide badges near the cursor.
Type: Integer
Saved in: Registry
Initial value: 2
1 - Turn off all new badges
2 - Turn on all badges (Default)
Badges that will be disabled:
- Selection - cross and window selection
- Inspection
- Deletion
- Copy
- Move
- Rotate
- Scale
- Zoom
- Add vertex
- Covert to arc
- Hatch inherit property
- AMCOPYRM
- AMCOPYRM_MR
- AMCOPYRM_R
- AMCOPYRM_RM
- AMPOWERCOPY
- AMPOWERERASE
- AMSCMONITOR
Note: The Autodesk 360 (AdSync) patch will automatically be installed with the AutoCAD Mechanical Service Pack.
As you prepare to install this Service Pack, keep the following in mind:
Back Up Custom Files
We recommend 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 will display in the About dialog box.
Reboot
After you install this Service Pack, we recommend that you reboot your system even if you are not prompted.
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: The extraction of MSP from the service pack executable requires VC++ runtime redistributable 2012. 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 Mechanical Product Team
Copyright ©2014 Autodesk, Inc.