May 5, 2015

Release Notes - Autodesk Inventor 2015 SP2 Readme
Autodesk, Inc.

In a continuing effort to provide high quality products, this Service Pack 2 for Autodesk Inventor 2015 fixes or addresses multiple issues. This document highlights these fixes and how to install the service pack.

Contents




Notes About Installation and Uninstallation

Installation Requirements

Download Location

Summary of Fixed Issues

Autodesk Inventor Professional 2015

Stress Analysis

Autodesk Inventor 2015

Security

API

Application Functionality

Assembly Modeling

BIM Exchange

Content Center

Drawing Manager

Engineer's Notebook

Enhanced Visualization

Inventor Studio

Materials/Appearances

Part Modeling

Presentations

Reality Capture

Repair Environment

Sketch

Translators

Vault

Legal Notice

General

• SP2 (Build 223) installs on Autodesk Inventor 2015 (Build 159) or SP1 (Build 203).
• Uninstalling SP1 Update before installing SP2 is recommended.
• Keep the original installation media or network image readily accessible during installation and uninstallation in case you are prompted for it.
• Installation may be slow due to Microsoft security update KB2918614. If so, the installation will require 1-2 hours to complete. For more information, please refer to Autodesk Knowledge Network and Microsoft support page.
• Install the Autodesk Inventor 2015 Service Pack 2 that matches your operating system's bit-type. Install 32-bit or 64-bit depending on your operating system.
• When appending Service Pack 2 for a deployment, update the deployment image on the same bit-type computer as the computer for the final installation from that image. For more information about Network Deployments, see the Network Administrator's Guide.
• Service Pack 2 includes released hotfixes for Autodesk Inventor 2015, including fixes within Service Pack 1, Update1, Update2 and OpenSSL, no prerequisite installations are required.
• The Layout tab is not selectable in the DWG Import preview window. Install the latest DWG Trueview 2015 to remove it.

Installation

• Update your operating system before installing Autodesk Inventor 2015 Service Pack 2. Reboot your system after updates are installed.
• Uninstall the hotfix Unexpected exit when Opening and saving Inventor 2013 part with Custom Material (INV19022) if you installed this hotfix before you install Autodesk Inventor 2015 Service Pack 2. Locate the hotfix from the Control Panel -> Programs -> Programs and Features -> View installed updates to uninstall the hotfix.

  Windows 7: Update is in the Control Panel, which is accessible from the Start menu.

  Windows 8: Update is in the Control Panel, on the desktop Charms Bar -> Settings menu.

• Double click the .msp file to update Autodesk Inventor 2015 with Service Pack 2. A progress bar displays while the installer updates the files on your system. When complete, select Finish.
• Reboot your system after the installation of Service Pack 2 is complete.



To verify success of installation, start Autodesk Inventor. On the Info Center Help drop-down list, select About Autodesk Inventor. If the About box displays: Build: 223, Release: 2015 SP2, the installation was successful.

Uninstallation

Uninstall may require the original source media. Please have it handy during this process. You do not need to uninstall the Beta 219 SP2 build before installing the final release build. You can install it directly on top of the Beta version.




The uninstall process is prolonged as it waits for the operating system’s file updates to time out. This process takes up to six hours. To speed up the uninstall process, perform the following steps after the file updates are complete:

1. Access Network Connections in your system Control Panel.
2. Disable the local area connection and all network adaptors, including virtual adaptors.
3. After the uninstall process completes successfully, in your system Control Panel, re-enable the local area connection and all network adaptors, including virtual adaptors.
4. Reboot the system after the uninstallation of Service Pack 2 is complete.



If the hotfix icon cannot be uninstalled from the Control Panel, perform the following steps:

1. Go to regedit.
2. Find the key, Autodesk Inventor Professional 2015_[hotfix number] under Computer\HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Uninstall.
3. Delete this key and its subkeys.

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• Verify that you have administrator privileges on your local machine to install Autodesk Inventor 2015 Service Pack 2.
• The 32-bit version of Autodesk Inventor 2015 Service Pack 2 is approximately 64.5 MB in size. A minimum of 1.23 GB of free disk space is required on the drive where temporary files are directed.
• The 64-bit version of Autodesk Inventor 2015 Service Pack 2 is approximately 108.9 MB in size. A minimum of 1.80 GB of free disk space is required on the drive where temporary files are directed.

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Locate Autodesk Inventor 2015 Service Pack 2 here: Inventor Updates

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Issues addressed in SP1 and Updates are also addressed in this Service Pack 2.

Stress Analysis




Service Pack 1:

• 1509-950: Face selection for FEA loads and constraints unsupported before this enhancement.



Service Pack 2:

• 42851: The precision of pressure is inaccurate when you convert it from MPa to psi.
• 31964: Inventor unexpectedly exits while working in the Stress Analysis addin. This occurs when finishing a simulation and reading back simulation results.

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Security




Service Pack 1:

• 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, see the CVE dictionary at http://cve.mitre.org.



Service Pack 2:

• Service Pack 2 addresses POODLE SSL v3 vulnerability (CVE-2014-3566)

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API




Service Pack 1:

• 1516-453: ComponentOccurrence.Excluded API does nothing and returns an error.
• 1516-939: Memory leak occurs when calling the API method AttributeSet.Add on an object that is a member of an OccurrencePattern object.
• 1517-042: Inventor unexpectedly exits when you move the cursor over an edge when calling FindUsingVector API within OnPreSelect event.
• 1514-728: Inventor API incorrectly places the ArcLengthDimConstraint into Geometric Constraint collection instead of the Dimension Constraint collection.
• 1516-710: Inventor API Edge.CalculateStrokes behavior is inconsistent.



Service Pack 2:

• 50812: API GraphicsIndexSet.Add method has performance regression since Inventor 2015.

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Application Functionality




Service Pack 1:

• 1516-052: Inventor unexpectedly exits due to the incomplete handling of peek message loop while running a spreadsheet edit related workflow within Inventor.
• 1515-904: Inventor becomes unresponsive when you use the measure tool in a drawing.
• 1515-681: The iLogic browser obscures the Model browser when My Home is enabled.
• 1514-905: BAK files and other non-Part/Assembly/Drawing/Presentation files appear in the My Home Recently Used area.
• 1517-874: Inventor becomes unresponsive when displaying My Home and Opening and Saving Inventor documents in rapid succession with Inventor API.
• 1517-955: Changing the active project from My Home does not set the current Workspace correctly.
• 1518-176: If your company uses proxy servers, the Team Web page might not display.
• 1516-695: In-product help search results point to the incorrect online help topics.
• 1517-015: "Want to Learn more?" on the learning page links to the Help home page instead of http://autodesk.com/inventor-newtutorials-2015.
• 1518-141: The Drawing Resource Transfer Wizard tool does not work on a Windows 8 operating system.



Service Pack 2:

• 31109: Inventor hangs when saving a file after you expand and collapse the browser.
• 46591: Unable to export files to CAD format in particular machines.
• 27746: The browser does not automatically reposition when one monitor is missing.
• 27218: Inventor performance is poor if you run Inventor on dual monitors or under customer DPI setting.
• 28391: Non-English Inventor unexpectedly exits when you type the letter 'a' in Communication Center.
• 27004: The last opened file might not be listed in the Recently Used tab after resetting the ribbon.
• 27008: A project cannot be changed using the dropdown menu in My Home when an opened document is closed using undo.
• 27603: Non-localized strings display within the context menu of the Home page.
• 27704: Inventor 2015 freezes on startup: The message "AutoCAD Component has Stopped Working" displays.
• 49934: View manipulation does not work as expected with 3D device if Rotation is disabled.
• Manually changing the HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Autodesk\Inventor\RegistryVersion19.0\System\Preferences\File\CefOptions setting in the registry is no longer required.

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Assembly Modeling




Service Pack 1:

• 1517-902: Replacing an iPart member in the Table Author dialog requires an extra click to set the focus onto the cell.
• 1517-471: The Moment of Inertia is calculated to a negative value when modifying the Mass value manually.
• 1516-933: Inventor unexpectedly exits when creating a shrinkwrap of an assembly that contains a part with Repaired Geometry composite and deleting a source feature.



Service Pack 2:

• 32821: Inventor unexpectedly exits when you copy components into certain assembly files.
• 54011: Sheet metal solid body is not selectable under Select Body Priority in the Assembly environment.
• 33538: Some defined Assembly Joint Limits are unexpectedly lost when computing large amounts of existing Joints.
• 50132: Assembly constraints that specifically Insert type constraint, sometimes provides a wrong direction when based on a normal vector of a selected circular edge. This issue was caused by using incorrect precision to compare direction of the two vectors in order to decide a final constraint direction. Editing existing Insert constraints may switch the constraint direction to the opposite direction.
• 52005: Locked Design Views that are activated while occurrences are suppressed will no longer turn unsuppressed instances to invisible later.
• 31296: When a part is inserted in an assembly, the center of gravity is made visible and cannot be turned off.
• 48472: Assembly Joints that are created using the Substitute LOD of the components will fail sometimes when activating the Master or Substitute LOD.
• 56190: A locked view representation when changing a component to invisible does not immediately update the browser icon to gray.

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BIM Exchange




Service Pack 1:

• 1516-885: A part file with a sweep feature fails to export to an .rfa file.

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Content Center




Service Pack 1:

• 1515-497: Cannot edit the custom angle value for a custom Content Center component when it is inserted as a standard part.
• 1518-489: Inventor becomes unresponsive when connected to the Vault 2015 R2 library.



Service Pack 2:

• 27646: Some materials are empty in custom Content Center family after migration from R2012.

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Drawing Manager




Service Pack 1:

• 1516-181: Hidden trails in an .ipn file display in a drawing raster view.
• 1517-964: Inventor might unexpectedly exit when opening a drawing file with a titleblock.
• 1517-162: The ‘T’ command alias creates a drawing sketch and starts the sketch text command instead of starting the general annotation text command.

  Additional Step Required:

  To use the ‘T’ command for drawing text and to 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 box. On the Keyboard page, scroll to the Text/Annotation command and specify ‘T’ as the alias.



Service Pack 2:

• 46956: Drawing views are out of sync with Assembly data.
• 48714: Model sketches do not update in the drawing view if the model has no volume.
• 45196: The size of a bounding box of a raster view is incorrect.
• 43372: Inventor unexpectedly exits when creating a detail view.
• 44171: Welds are incorrectly represented in the drawing when you change a Model State from Welds to Machining.
• 35166: Cannot delete the crop view when annotations are unattached.
• 38700: A memory leak problem happens when updating a drawing view.
• 28611: You cannot copy/paste some drawing views.
• 26526: Poor performance occurs when creating drawing views.
• 27659: Inventor unexpectedly exits when creating drawing views from a weldment assembly.
• 27694: Inventor unexpectedly exits when you create a crop view and undo it.
• 51628: The PartsListColumn.Reposition method does not work for iAssembly member columns.
• 42324: Inventor unexpectedly exits when deleting symbols before the Select Other mini toolbar appears, or while the toolbar is active.
• 39317: The order in BOM is not correct when sorting components by Item.
• 31188: Data row height cannot be adjusted by dragging the data cell line up and down in the Partslist table, general table and revision table.

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Engineer's Notebook




Service Pack 1:

• 1510-967: Inventor unexpectedly exits when you copy and paste components that have a deleted engineering note.



Service Pack 2:

• 26782: Inventor unexpectedly exits after undoing an Engineering note several times until the part that includes the engineering notebook is closed with two components.

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Enhanced Visualization




Service Pack 1:

• 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: When the appearance has a reflectivity setting, the iFeature causes a black face.
• 1517-511: Ground shadows show a white effect under the Ray Tracing Good and Best mode.
• 1511-131: The display of workplanes prevents a view at the half section of an assembly.
• 1515-809: A transparent model that partially displays in the graphics window loses face after editing a constraint.
• 1517-634: The NVIDIA graphics devices on laptops with a dual graphics device are unrecognized.
• 1518-156: Inventor unexpectedly exits when you edit the thickness column in an iFeature Author Table of an .ide file from a catalog.
• 1518-703: The model displays too brightly after migrating the customized lighting styles to Inventor default styles.



Service Pack 2:

• 35630: Inventor prompts error message when creating a drawing view because of a bad front plane definition.
• 34918: The preview quality is not good when creating a drawing base view from a small part.
• 54726: Abnormal triangles may appear in a drawing document when you zoom in to drawing sheet.
• 52236: Faces disappear when checking the component visibility off check box and when zooming into the assembly.
• 45720: Inventor unexpectedly exits when you delete some Assembly components in express mode under the Conservative graphics setting.
• 31065: Dimension texts are blurry after applying Update 1.
• 50890: Inventor unexpectedly exits when you use the API to copy the sheet to another drawing, delete the sheet and save a new drawing.
• 42203: Thai characters incorrectly display in Inventor drawing files.

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Inventor Studio




Service Pack 1:

• 1515-783: The Style Library Manager unexpectedly exits when you migrate the style library for the non-English version of Inventor.
• 1446-107: Some Inventor Studio dialog boxes such as Render Image collapse automatically.

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Materials/Appearances




Service Pack 1:

• 1500-905: A failure to purge remaining unused material styles for certain datasets occur. Select the Purge Styles command a second time to purge the remaining styles.
• 1517-473: Inventor unexpectedly exits when assigning an appearance to multi-selected faces.
• 1518-136: Inventor unexpectedly exits when saving a legacy file with custom material in Inventor 2015.
• 1518-288: A failure occurs when saving customized material styles.



Service Pack 2:

• 27752: A relative path for the Materials and Appearance libraries is not supported in Project setting.

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Part Modeling




Service Pack 1:

• 1517-465: Inventor sometimes unexpectedly exits when creating a Freeform Bridge.
• 1517-835: The body color of a derived part is not maintained.
• 1515-447: Inventor unexpectedly exits when you edit a sick sweep feature.
• 1513-384: The temporary plane label of a mirrored workplane is incorrect.
• 1517-835: The body color of a derived part is not maintained.



Service Pack 2:

• 47740: Inventor hangs when you update non-English datasets containing many exported parameters.
• 27717: Physical iProperties are not calculated for large models that contain a rectangular pattern feature.
• 29369: Inventor sometimes unexpectedly exits when you select the Rebuild All button.

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Presentations




Service Pack 1:

• 1517-052: Inventor unexpectedly exits when creating a view with a custom level of detail.



Service Pack 2:

• 45607: Some nodes are missing in the IPN browser when opening legacy .ipn files.

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Reality Capture




Service Pack 2:

• 40516: The point clouds of regions created in ReCap does not display in the Inventor point cloud Navigator dialog box.

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Repair Environment




Service Pack 1:

• 1515-838: Inventor is unresponsive when healing an intersection error of two faces.

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SheetMetal




Service Pack 1:

• 1511-075: Cut normal on a cone sometimes generates an incorrect result.
• 1515-420: Cut normal sometimes fails on a model that contains two adjacent bends.
• 1515-705: Cut normal sometimes fails if you first define the A-side of a face.
• 1515-458: You are unable to deselect sketch points when you edit the punch tool.

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Sketch




Service Pack 2:

• 40155: Inventor unexpectedly exits when clicking on a point to place copied sketch texts.

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Translators




Service Pack 1:

• 1515-682: If the operation system format is set to an Eastern Asian language, such as Korean or Traditional Chinese, Inventor 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 units of meters changes to mm after importing to Inventor.
• 1517-206: Unable to import MDT.dwg files.
• 1517-907: Improve import performance for many geometry specific DWG files when importing to the sketch environment.
• 1517-908: A delay in Inventor occurs when you window select any sketch entity that is imported from a DWG file.
• 1514-742: Failure to read certain SolidWorks assembly files.
• 1517-121: Inventor might unexpectedly exit when you open .step files.
• 1517-469: The .step assembly file exported from Inventor cannot be opened with QuickStep 2010.
• 1516-894: The mesh data imported from some specific .stl files do not display in Inventor correctly.



Service Pack 2:

• 34808: A component is either missing or is altered after exporting to a STEP file.
• 28472: You cannot export weldment beads correctly to an IGES/STEP file format.
• 39695: A hatch pattern AR-CONC does not scale correctly after exporting the current drawing file to an AutoCAD DWG file.
• 28743: Elements of the drawing are lost when batch generating visualization files with the Vault Job Processor.
• 44582: You cannot open some special NX models that have compound and pseudo bodies.
• 54390: Bodies are lost when importing some special NX models that contain compound and pseudo bodies.

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Vault




Service Pack 2:

• 41234: No edge displays in a DWF file if it is published by the Vault Job Processor.

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We thank all of our customers who identified these issues and reported them to Autodesk. These reports give us the opportunity to improve the product and provide you with the best solutions in mechanical design. Autodesk also thanks you for your continued support and feedback regarding the content of this updated release.




Respectfully,




Autodesk Inventor Product Team

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