Service Pack 2 - for Autodesk Inventor 2014 (Build 246)
May 6, 2014
Release Notes - Autodesk Inventor 2014 SP2 Readme
Autodesk, Inc.
In a continuing effort to provide high quality products, this Service Pack 2 for Autodesk Inventor 2014 fixes or addresses a
variety of issues. This file highlights how to install the service pack and what has been fixed.
General
- SP2(246) installs on Inventor 2014(170) and as updated by SP1(222).
- Install only the bit-type version of Autodesk Inventor 2014 Service Pack 2 that
corresponds to the bit-type version of your installation of Autodesk Inventor 2014.
- For deployed installations append the Service Pack to your existing
deployment image rather than merge it. We suggest this behavior for all service pack releases. Additionally,
update a deployment image on the same bit-type machine as the machine for the final installation from that image.
For more information about Network Deployments, see the Network Administrator's Guide.
- Keep the original installation media or network image readily accessible during installation and uninstallation in case you are prompted for it.
- This Service Pack 2 includes all released hotfixes for Autodesk Inventor 2014, including fixes made within all Updates, so no prerequisite installations are required.
Installation
- Update your operating system before you install Autodesk Inventor 2014 Service Pack 2. Reboot
your system after the updates are installed.
- Download the appropriate version of Autodesk Inventor 2014 Service Pack 2; either the 32-bit
or 64-bit version depending upon your operating system bit type.
- Double click the .msp file to update Autodesk Inventor 2014 with Service Pack 2. 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 2 is finished.
To verify the success of the installation, start Autodesk Inventor. On the Info Center Help drop-down list, select About Autodesk
Inventor. If the About box displays: Build: 246, Release: 2014 SP2, the installation was successful.
Uninstallation
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:
- In your system Control Panel, access Network Connections.
- Disable the local area connection and all network adaptors, including virtual adaptors.
- After the uninstall process is completed successfully, in your system Control Panel, re-enable the local area connection and all network adaptors, including virtual adaptors.
- If required, reboot the system after the uninstallation of the Service Pack 2 is finished.
Please familiarize yourself with an article posted to the Being Inventive Support blog if you plan to include this SP2 within a deployment image of Autodesk Inventor 2014. Microsoft released a hotfix that addresses a known issue that you can potentially encounter.
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- Verify that you have administrator privileges on your local machine to install Autodesk Inventor
2014 Service Pack 2.
- The 32-bit version of Autodesk Inventor 2014 Service Pack 2 is approximately 76.2 MB in size. A
minimum of 1.65 GB of free disk space is required on the drive where your temporary files are directed.
- The 64-bit version of Autodesk Inventor 2014 Service Pack 2 is approximately 147 MB in size. A
minimum of 2.39 GB of free disk space is required on the drive where your temporary files are directed.
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Locate Autodesk Inventor 2014 Service Pack 2 here: Inventor Updates
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Issues addressed in Service Pack 1 are also addressed in this Service Pack 2.
Autodesk
Inventor Professional 2014
Cable & Harness
Service Pack 1:
- When Cable & Harness add-in is loaded, Inventor exits unexpectedly when you undo and redo repeatedly in an iAssembly to open its member files.
- For some datasets, after you place a nail board view of a Cable & Harness assembly in a drawing file, Inventor exits unexpectedly when you close the drawing file without saving and then close Inventor.
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Stress Analysis
Service Pack 1:
- Contacts in solids and faces at vertices are identified as face-face contacts.
- FEAComputerServer exits unexpectedly when it detects a large number of contacts.
- Inventor exits unexpectedly when you start stress analysis with certain models created in Inventor 2013.
Service Pack 2:
- Inventor exits unexpectedly when you delete multiple midsurfaces simultaneously.
- Inventor exits unexpectedly when you export some assembly files with midsurface shells to STEP format.
- Artificial stiffness sometimes occurs because of line-on-line geometry in bonded contact.
- Certain contacts are missing during automatic contact detection for some FEA cases.
- Corrupt models are now blocked from contact detection and solve unless you use a registry key as a workaround:[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Autodesk\Inventor\RegistryVersion18.0\Assembly Stress Analysis] "ContinueOnCorruptModels"=dword:00000001
- Some customer models which can be meshed/solved in a prior version, are blocked from mesh/solve in Inventor 2014.
- Yield strength values in an FEA report do not use the correct unit conversions.
- Models with very large number of spring contacts ( > 2^16 contacts) are no longer blocked from finishing in SP2.
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API
Service Pack 1:
- DataIO.WriteDataToFile fails to publish an Inventor drawing file to a DWF file.
- Inventor imports a DWG file into a sketch with the wrong units if you specify custom units for it.
- Inventor exits unexpectedly when calling ReferenceKeyManager.LoadKeyContext with an invalid KeyContext input.
- Inventor exits unexpectedly when calling AttributSet.Add for a FaceProxy that has 80000 edges.
- The output image using Camera.SaveAsBitmap is not correct in generated previews of drawing views.
- Inventor exits unexpectedly when accessing a corrupt UserParameter.Value property.
Service Pack 2:
- Using i-Drop fails to drag and drop a component into an assembly.
- A Server communication error occurs when you replace a component from Content Center while Table View is enabled.
- API method Documents.OpenWithOptions raises an error for assemblies with deleted default views.
- Inventor exits unexpectedly when calling Assets.Add if an Inventor Material Library does not exist.
- API reports an error when accessing ArcLengthDimConstraint in a sketch.
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Assembly Modeling
Service Pack 1:
- In the Joint command, Inventor exits unexpectedly when you paste components after you select two Origins.
- Cannot make a weldment iAssembly material valid as a weldable material.
- Inventor exits unexpectedly if you delete Tube and Pipe while the assembly is open in Express mode.
- Tube and Pipe loses its adaptability after you move its reference part in Express mode.
- If the Design Accelerator add-in is loaded, Inventor exits unexpectedly when you pause the cursor over a face while placing a file from Content Center in Express mode.
- In Express mode, when you switch a design view to one that contains a section view the graphics do not update.
- In Express mode, when the top assembly is open, welds nodes do not display correctly after you change their visibility.
- After you click Load Express and then Load Full, the Tube and Pipe command is still disabled.
Service Pack 2:
- Inventor exits unexpectedly when you click the additional geometry of Simplify Define envelopes after loading Express.
- Inventor exits unexpectedly when you exit in-place edit environment from a sub-assembly and then undo.
- In a derived assembly, a component is missing when you change a positional representation from Master to user defined.
- Inventor exits unexpectedly when you create a shrinkwrap of an assembly containing a part with a composite in the Repair Environment and its source feature is deleted.
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BIM Exchange
Service Pack 1:
- Cannot export an .ipt file to an .rfa file if features of the part are in an unsupported appearance.
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BIM Simplify
Service Pack 1:
- Inventor exits unexpectedly if you click OK several times in the Define Envelopes dialog box.
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Content Center
Service Pack 1:
- The material of a Content Center component displays a long string in the assembly BOM.
Service Pack 2:
- If you switch users within the roaming profile environment, the Content Center becomes unavailable.
- Migrated custom content is missing materials, and Inventor sometimes exits unexpectedly when you access the library.
- Inventor exits unexpectedly when the Content Center dialog box is open, and you place a component and then exit the dialog box.
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Design Accelerator
Service Pack 1:
- Bolted connection does not update automatically when you reposition its location by changing the placement sketch point.
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Drawing Manager
Service Pack 1:
- Inventor exits unexpectedly when you undo and redo repeatedly in a drawing after you edit the source assembly file.
- For some legacy datasets, edges in the section view that are marked as invisible change to visible when you open the drawing file.
- For a multi-body part, the drawing view does not respect component visibility if its design view association is not selected.
- In the drawing view of an assembly, if you turn on a hidden line for a particular part, Inventor shows hidden interference edges of the entire assembly instead of only that particular part.
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Engineer's Notebook
Service Pack 1:
- Font color does not function in Engineer's Notebook comments.
Service Pack 2:
- Inventor exits unexpectedly when you copy and paste components after you delete a note.
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Enhanced Visualization
Service Pack 1:
- If you create a shaded drawing base view, project some other views and then undo, the shaded face of the base view disappears.
- In a broken view, the shaded face displays incorrectly.
- In a drawing sketch, text is behind the Hatch.
- When you zoom an assembly in the wireframe visual style, Inventor sometimes exits unexpectedly.
- After you open several files in an Inventor session, go to a drawing file and zoom in and zoom out, the title block displays incorrectly.
- When you edit a sketch or a component in an assembly, the visual effect Shaded with Hidden Edges becomes Shaded.
- If you use Ray Tracing in Good mode, the model shows too much noise.
- When you create a sketch on a machine with certain old graphics drivers, Inventor sometimes exits unexpectedly.
Service Pack 2:
- Dimension text is too blurred to see under certain color schemes.
- Display True line Weights does not take effect immediately.
- In a drawing view, Shade disappears when you zoom.
- In a drawing view, Leaders display behind the image.
- Hidden edges do not display in a section view.
- AmbientShadows show through the transparent components when you in-place edit an assembly and zoom it.
- Inventor exits unexpectedly when you enable ray tracing after creating a section view.
- Inventor exits unexpectedly when Windows prompts "Display driver stopped responding and has recovered".
- Decal image quality is poor in Performance and Quality modes.
- After you move a part in an assembly, strange arcs appear in a section view.
- When zooming in some large assemblies, abnormal triangles appear occasionally.
- When you open a mechanical desktop file on some low end machines, Inventor exits unexpectedly.
- Graphics do not render correctly by leaving ghosting or missing parts in assemblies.
- An assembly with a section view does not display correctly if the Workplane is in front of the section plane.
- Inventor exits unexpectedly when Windows prompts "Display driver stopped responding and has recovered".
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Frame Generator
Service Pack 1:
- Fails to assign a special material from the custom material library to a Frame member.
Service Pack 2:
- Fails to delete some frame members.
- Fails to apply Notch to certain frames.
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Materials/Appearances
Service Pack 1:
- Performance is poor when you delete appearances and materials from a library.
- Performance is poor when you copy appearances and materials between libraries.
- Cannot edit, rename or delete an in-document asset after renaming the same asset in a library.
- Inventor exits unexpectedly when you undo and redo to assign a material and appearance to a pattern feature.
- When you copy the same named material and appearance between documents, the Duplicate Asset Name dialog box displays.
- Cannot apply appearance assets from a different language library to an object.
- When you turn off the Stain option, you cannot remove the Stain color.
- When you log in as a non-English account, all system libraries turn to sick.
- Appearance is deleted when you delete its linked material.
- In an assembly BOM, mass properties does not update when you assign material a using the quick access tool bar.
- The appearance dropdown list is not available when you select internal components.
- Style Conflict dialog box displays when you create a file from a template using a material or appearance from a customized library that is removed from the current project.
Service Pack 2:
- All unused materials are deleted after purged once.
- A Zero and negative value is acceptable for density of a physical property.
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Multi-Sheet Plot
Service Pack 1:
- The Multi-Sheet Plot tool cannot read an .idw file.
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Part Modeling
Service Pack 1:
- In the Insert iFeature dialog box, the help button is disabled if the iFeature is created with a legacy localization build.
- iPart members do not show sketch and block definitions.
- An iPart created from a feature with no dimension generates empty children.
- When you measure distance in an iPart member, on the context menu Select Other is grayed out.
- Mass calculation fails for a part that uses unpatched Rhino surface data.
- Inventor sometimes hangs when you rebuild a pattern feature.
- Inventor sometimes exits unexpectedly when you edit a mirror feature.
- Sweep creates an invalid body with some faces that are not selectable or colorable.
- Sweep generates unexpected surfaces.
Service Pack 2:
- If you edit the iPart table through Excel 2013 while you have other files opened in Excel, you cannot save the changes to the table.
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Point Cloud
Service Pack 1:
- If the region of your machine is set to German, Spanish, or Italian, the .rcp point cloud files fail to attach.
Service Pack 2:
- Inventor exits unexpectedly when you attach certain .rcp files.
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Presentations
Service Pack 1:
- Inventor sometimes exits unexpectedly when you open an .ipn file.
- If you add a sub assembly into the main assembly, and then open the associated .ipn file of the main, the structure does not update in the browser.
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Sketch
Service Pack 1:
- Cannot switch on and off the visibility of a sketch block when you edit the sketch.
- Inventor sometimes exits unexpectedly when you correct a sketch by Design Doctor.
- Cannot create a coincident point when you attach a line to a projected point.
Service Pack 2:
- Inventor exits unexpectedly when you trim some splines.
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Translators
Service Pack 1:
- After you save an Inventor drawing file to the AutoCAD Mechanical 2014 file version, in the .ini file, the version of AutoCAD Mechanical is 2013.
- Inventor sometimes exits unexpectedly when you open non-Inventor files with the Save Components during Load option turned on.
- When you open STEP, IGES, NX and SolidWorks files, there is no units information in the translation report.
- When you import non-Inventor files with the Create Surface as Individual Surface Bodies option selected, performance is poor.
- Inventor exits unexpectedly when you export a file with empty bodies to IGES and STEP file formats.
- In a Windows 32-bit operating system, Inventor exits unexpectedly when you open an NX file with the Search below Folders to Open File option turned on.
- Inventor fails to open .neu files more than once in the European Windows operating system.
- No part color displays when you import a Solidworks file.
- CHS Inventor installed on a CHS operating system fails to read the files from CHS SolidWorks.
Service Pack 2:
- Inventor exits unexpectedly when reading certain CATIA v5 files.
- Inventor fails to read some Solidworks assembly files.
- Nothing displays when you import some STEP files.
- Inventor does not respect custom resolution setting when you export STL files by API.
- Title block property text and the sketch of a drawing view moves their positions after you save an .idw to the AutoCAD .dwg file format.
- iLogic rule does not work when you save a drawing as .pdf without an explicit path.
- Model sketches within the Cropped View are entirely visible after you save an .idw to the AutoCAD .dwg file format.
- Inventor exits unexpectedly when you export certain files to the AutoCAD .dwg file format.
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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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