Service Pack 1 - for Autodesk Inventor LT 2015 (Build 203)
September 11, 2014
Release Notes - Autodesk Inventor LT 2015 SP1 Readme
Autodesk, Inc.
In a continuing effort to provide high quality products, this Service Pack 1 for Autodesk Inventor LT 2015 fixes or addresses a
variety of issues. This file highlights how to install the service pack and what has been fixed.
General
- SP1(Build 203) installs on Autodesk Inventor LT 2015(Build 159).
- Install only the Autodesk Inventor LT 2015 Service Pack 1 that matches the bit-type; either 32-bit or 64-bit depending upon your operating system.
- When appending this Service Pack 1 to a deployment, it is recommended to update the 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 1 includes all released hotfixes for Autodesk Inventor LT 2015, including fixes made within OpenSSL, so no prerequisite installations are required.
Installation
- Update your operating system before you install Autodesk Inventor LT 2015 Service Pack 1. Reboot
your system after the updates are installed.
- Download the appropriate version of Autodesk Inventor LT 2015 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 LT 2015 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 LT. On the Info Center Help drop-down list, select About Autodesk
Inventor LT. If the About box displays: Build: 203, Release: 2015 SP1, 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 1 is finished.
Sometimes hotfix icon cannot be uninstalled from the control panel, perform the following steps:
- Go to regedit.
- Find the key named Autodesk Inventor LT 2015_[hotfix number] under Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall.
- Delete this key and all of its subkeys.
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- Verify that you have administrator privileges on your local machine to install Autodesk Inventor LT
2015 Service Pack 1.
- The 32-bit version of Autodesk Inventor LT 2015 Service Pack 1 is approximately 33.2 MB in size. A
minimum of 1.25 GB of free disk space is required on the drive where your temporary files are directed.
- The 64-bit version of Autodesk Inventor LT 2015 Service Pack 1 is approximately 62.8 MB in size. A
minimum of 1.40 GB of free disk space is required on the drive where your temporary files are directed.
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Locate Autodesk Inventor LT 2015 Service Pack 1 here: Inventor LT Updates
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Security
- This Service Pack 1 addresses Heartbleed vulnerability - a security bug in the open-source OpenSSL cryptography library. Heartbleed is registered in the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures system as CVE-2014-0160. For more information, please visit the CVE dictionary
at http://cve.mitre.org.
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BIM Exchange
- 1516-885: A part file with sweep feature fails to export to .rfa file.
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Drawing Manager
- 1517-964: Inventor LT may unexpectedly exit when you open a certain drawing file with a titleblock.
- 1517-162: ‘T’ command alias creates a drawing sketch and starts the sketch text command instead of starting the general annotation text command. **Additional Step Required
**In order to use ‘T’ command for drawing text and also ‘T’ command for sketch text add the ‘T’ alias to the drawing Text command. To do this use the Quick Launch context menu to access the Customer User Commands dialog. On the Keyboard page, scroll to the Text/Annotation command and specify ‘T’ as the alias.
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Enhanced Visualization
- 1368-705: Dimension values are difficult to see if you change the background color.
- 1514-968: Drawing dimensions disappear on images in a sketch.
- 1517-178: Ray Tracing: The iFeature causes a black face if the appearance has the reflectivity setting.
- 1517-511: Ground shadows show white effect under Ray Tracing Good and Best mode.
- 1515-809: A transparent model that partially displays in the graphics window loses face after editing constraint.
- 1517-634: NVIDIA graphics devices on the laptops with dual graphics device are not recognized.
- 1518-156: Inventor LT unexpectedly exits when you edit the thickness column in iFeature Author Table of an .ide file from a catalog.
- 1518-703: The model displays too brightly after migrating the customized lighting styles to the Inventor LT default styles.
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Inventor LT Studio
- 1515-783: Style Library Manager unexpectedly exits when you migrate style library with non-English Inventor LT.
- 1446-107: Some Inventor LT Studio dialog boxes such as Render Image collapse automatically.
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Materials/Appearances
- 1500-905: Failure to purge unused material styles for certain datasets.
- 1517-473: Inventor LT unexpectedly exits when you assign an appearance to multi-selected faces.
- 1518-136: Inventor LT unexpectedly exits when you save a legacy file with custom material in Inventor LT 2015.
- 1518-288: Failure to save a customized material styles.
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Part Modeling
- 1517-465: Inventor LT sometimes unexpectedly exits when you create a Freeform Bridge.
- 1517-835: Body color of derived part is not maintained.
- 1515-447: Inventor LT unexpectedly exits when you edit a sick sweep feature.
- 1513-384: The temporary plane label of a mirrored work plane is incorrect.
- 1517-835: The body color of a derived part is not maintained.
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Repair Environment
- 1515-838: Inventor becomes unresponsive when you heal the intersection error of two faces.
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Sketch
- 1517-300: Import issue: Originally imported geometries in all 3D sketches have to be deleted. The .dwg file has to be re-imported to an existing 3D sketch.
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Translators
- 1515-682: If the operation system format is set to an Eastern Asian languages, such as Korean or Traditional Chinese, Inventor LT reads a CATIA V4 file as empty.
- 1516-822: Failure to read some specific CATIA V5 in assembly files.
- 1356-879: Importing an AutoCAD .dwg with meters units changes to mm after importing into Inventor LT.
- 1517-206: Unable to import MDT.dwg files.
- 1517-907: Improve import performance for a large number of geometry specific .dwg files when importing to sketch environment.
- 1517-908: Improve window selection performance in sketch environment, for various geometry.
- 1514-742: Failure to read certain SolidWorks assembly files.
- 1517-121: Inventor LT may unexpectedly exit when you open .step files.
- 1517-469: The .step assembly file exported from Inventor LT cannot be opened with QuickStep 2010.
- 1516-894: The mesh data imported from some specific .stl file do not display in Inventor LT correctly.
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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 LT Product Team
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