Autodesk® Alias® AutoStudio 2016
Autodesk® Alias® Design 2016
Autodesk® Alias® Surface 2016
Service Pack 1
June 17, 2015
Release Notes - Autodesk Alias 2016 SP1 Readme file
Autodesk, Inc.
In a continuing effort to provide high quality products, this Service Pack 1 for Autodesk® Alias™ 2016 fixes or addresses a variety of issues. This file highlights how to install the service pack and what has been fixed.
Issues Addressed in this Service Pack
Alias to VRED Workflows
- New options added to Send to VRED to specify the translator to use when opening the files in VRED. The ATF option works best when using VRED Materials tags. The Direct Connect option currently supports more accurate tessellation.(400743)
Modeling
- Curves on surface created by the Mesh Intersect tool disappear when attempting to trim, causing the trim to fail. This has been fixed.(400436)
- Sometimes the Symmetry tool will give an incorrect error when moving on a planar projection. This has been fixed.(398595)
- The "Place Inside" command in the Object Lister has been added back to the User Interface. (400577)
- Clicking twice on a Fillet Surface while Query Editing causes Alias to crash. This has been fixed. (400599)
- An intermittent crash inside the Pick Visible tool has been resolved. (400605)
- Alias hangs when Query Editing a Surface Fillet command that consists of multiple Fillets on the same surface. (400624)
- Variable Fillets with only values specified at the start and the end of Fillets were being interpolated incorrectly. This has been fixed. (400657)
- Fixed a crash in Chordal Fillet Fitting. (400586)
- Fixed an issue where the EDF translator was not adding the proper Trim Selectors for Trim Surface entities. Without the Trim Selectors, subsequent Trim operations such as Filleting would fail. Trim Selectors are now properly added. (400856)
- Fixed an issue where the Fillet direction arrows were not updated after their directions were unified. (400343)
- In the Draft tool, you will no longer need to click the Accept button when activating To Surface mode if you already have curves selected. (400588)
- In the Draft tool with To Surface selected, you can now modify your curve selection without losing your surface selection by clicking the Modify Curves button. (400588)
- Fix to a crash when deleting multiple Cross Sections (400741)
- Fixed an issue when using Partial Align. Resolved an issue where Manipulators were not registering intersecting points. (400522)
Rendering
- An issue with Phong Shaders being incorrectly rendered by the software renderers has been resolved. (399119)
- The Ground Plane section of the Environment in the Shader Editor was causing performance problems when trying to scroll the editor. This has been fixed. (400623)
- Fix to Alias Powercaster and Powertracer crashes on systems with more than 32 processors (399426)
- Phong shaders were not rendered correctly in Raytracing. This has been resolved. (400656)
- Corrected default values for Isophote Shader Line Thickness and Sharpness. (398871)
- Fixed a crash when using Copy/Paste between Stages with Switch Shaders. (400744)
Layer Improvements
- Fixed an issue where the "Isolate" command in the Layer Category window. (400636)
- If the User selects more than one layer and right-clicks and selects "Duplicate Layer", the layer window will appear to become unresponsive. When this occurs, resizing the ObjectLister will fix it. (400597)
- The "Create Geometry" command for layers will now work with Layer Folders. (400750)
- Loading legacy files into version 2016 will now retain the proper layer position value from the previous version. (400752)
- An issue where Drag/Drop of layers inside the ObjectLister was causing a hang or crash has been fixed. (400772)
- "Duplicate Folder and Contents" will now duplicate all of the layer attributes (including color). (400773)
- Drag/drop of multiple layers in the Object Lister will no longer occasionally cause the layer order to be reversed. (400774)
- An issue where Copy/Paste commands were affecting layer ordering has been resolved. (400777)
- A crash while merging stages (with/without symmetry) into Stages with existing symmetry present has been resolved. (400792)
- An inconsistency between a layer's visibility setting and the in canvas display of visible geometry has been resolved. Layers set as visible/invisible will now display correctly in canvas. (400815)
- We added a Save Preference button in confirm window which is presented when a user has modified Shelves. (396766)
- Retrieving a file with an inactive layer that is also the current layer can show incorrect picking behaviour. This will cause blend points not to snap to geometry in this layer. Once another layer is made current proper picking behaviour is restored. (400316)
- Minor draw problem in the layer bar after selecting a layer folder then selecting the root folder has been fixed (400664)
- Deleting Folders in Object Lister caused Alias to prompt the user twice for confirmation before deleting the Folder. This has been resolved. (400791)
Other Improvements & Bug Fixes
- An issue where the Diagnostic Shade Surface Evaluation shader was not correctly updating has been resolved. (400587)
- Fixed an issue where if the Action Window is opened on exit Alias would not start until Preference files were removed. (400866)
- A "dead spot" caused by the Curvature Evaluation's interactive ramp has been resolved. (399925)
- Updated Report a Bug and Suggest a Feature to the correct locations. (400569)
- Fix to a redraw “flash” that would appear on copy/paste (400526)
- If a user tries to drag a Recent file menu item to a shelf Alias may crash. This has been fixed. (400611)
- Quickly clicking and moving the scale slider of the Variant Lister may crash Alias. This has been fixed. (400775)
- Rare, intermittent menu UI crash (400539)
- Preference Sets now save user defined workspaces. (400556)
- Fix to Alias Community web link in Help menu. (400621)
- Fixes to window focus and possible performance issues after using Copy/Paste (400652)
- Alias will now create the "Shared Preference Location" with the required directories if they do not already exist. There is also a change to maintain a single "Shared Preference Location" not modified by retrieving of Preference Sets. (400031)
- The blend point manipulator may being obscured by a canvas which was behind it. (400560)
- Changes to shelf tool labels in the default preferences. (400638)
- Fixed an issue with Illustrator export where continuous curves were being broken up into Bezier pieces instead of remaining as one piece. (400676)
- API: Fix to a crash when loading a file and using AlUniverse::deleteAll (400718)
- API: OpenAlias API access methods for layer folders that were missing from Alias 2016. These have now been added.
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