Product Design Suite 2021 Release Notes
April 9, 2020
Requirements
- Autodesk Product Design Suite 2021 supports Microsoft® Windows® 10. See Autodesk’s Product Support Lifecycle for support information.
NOTE: Microsoft Windows XP & Vista & 7 & 8 & 8.1, 32 bit & 64 bit versions are not supported.
For more information refer to each product's Release Notes.
Suite Product Release Notes
Additional Notes
- We encourage you to install all of the products included in, and licensed with, the Autodesk Product Design Suite 2021. Install all products at once, or in multiple sessions.
- The Autodesk Product Design Suite 2021 Ultimate and Premium editions can only be installed on a 64-bit operating system.
- We recommend that you use a certified graphics card and make sure the driver is up to date. Go to our Certified Hardware page and query on the certified graphics cards and drivers for Autodesk Product Design Suite 2021. Also, review the System Requirements document for specific product needs.
- Before you install Autodesk Product Design Suite 2021, please update your operating system. Reboot your system after all security updates, and so on, are installed.
- If you downloaded the source files to a local folder with a name that contains non-English characters, ensure that the language in Regional Settings is consistent with the language name of that local folder.
- When installing on an English operating system, we recommend that only English characters be included in the installation or deployment path.
- If you cannot select a product to install, pause the cursor over the red "prohibited" circle in front of the product name to get more information.
- Please reboot computer after installation complete before you launch any of the products in Autodesk Product Design Suite 2021.
Summary of Known Issues
Note: It is not guaranteed that files saved with Beta versions of the individual products in Autodesk Product Design Suite 2021 will migrate into the final release versions included in this release of Product Design Suite 2021.
- If both AutoCAD Electrical 2021 and AutoCAD Mechanical 2021 are installed and you are running Windows 8.1 with the Metro user interface, you will not see the AutoCAD Mechanical 2021 shortcut icons in the following areas: Attach Digital Signatures, Batch Standards Checker and the Reference Manager.
- A driver update for a 3DConnexion SpacePilot 3D mouse may cause an error when you are loading files into 3ds Max. The error displays the message MAXScript Auto-load Script Error. Type error: Interface method call requires MAXClass, got: undefined. Workaround: Remove the offending driver update file, 3DsStudio.ms, from the install directory (C:\Program Files\Autodesk\3ds Max 2021\scripts\startup\3DxStudio.ms).
- When executed, the Quick Uninstall Tool provided as part of the Autodesk Product Design Suite 2021 will remove the Start menu Icon for the Uninstall Tool provided as part of the 2021 suite. If this occurs, you can access the 2021 uninstall Tool directly from C:\Program Files (x86)\Common Files\Autodesk Shared\Uninstall Tool\R1\UninstallTool.exe.
- Windows Explorer restart fails during uninstall of some Autodesk Product Design Suite 2021 products. During the final stage of uninstalling, a warning displays instructing you to close and automatically restart Windows Explorer.exe, you can log out and log back in.
- If you encounter a crash attempting to add a RSS feed within the InfoCenter Settings dialog, or a persistent recurrence of a No RSS Feed Was Found error message after such a crash, be aware there is a simple workaround available. Open a Windows Explorer dialog and type %appdata% in the path bar. This should take you to the C:\Users\AppData\Roaming folder where you should navigate into the \Autodesk folder and manually create a \WebServices folder. The presence of this folder prevents the above behavior.
- For Typical installations of Navisworks Manage 2021 & Navisworks Simulate 2021, Inventor Switchback will be installed. However, on accessing the Custom Installation type the Inventor Switchback checkbox is unchecked. Select the Inventor Switchback checkbox to install Inventor Switch.