AutoCAD MEP 2010 Update 2

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General Updates to AutoCAD MEP

The following defects have been fixed in AutoCAD MEP 2010 Update 2:

BDH Import
Update 2

• Radiator Import may lead to crash during when updating existing drawings.

Device
Update 1

• Device modify via grip edit doesn't move or maintain its orientation as expected.
• The Add Automatic Property for a Device was not retrieving the Load Category or Number of Poles.

Update 2

• Opening drawings from previous releases may lead to crash.
• When Rotating Devices with Update 1 installed, the Device annotation is not rotating relative to the offset specified in the block.
• Layer Key Override - Devices with an assigned System Definition that contains a Layer Key Override are appending the initial overrides in the Layer Key Override dialog.

Display
Update 1

• Haloed or hidden appearance for Plumbing Lines, Schematic lines and Wires do not display correctly.

Duct
Update 1

• Duct Flanges are displayed incorrectly after moving a duct using grips.
• Velocity in Duct Modify does not match the Velocity in the Properties Palette.
• Add Selected does not work correctly when duct height is greater than duct width.
• Takeoff for branch is not sized correctly when duct height is greater than duct width.
• Top and Bottom Elevation are incorrect in tooltip when duct height is greater than duct width.

Update 2

• Duct Takeoffs may move or become disconnected during Regen Model. Elbow may change elevation when changing parameters values.

Electrical
Update 1

• A crash may occur when closing a drawing with an EPD file that has a relative path.
• A crash may occur when converting multiple blocks to Devices.
• Wire will only connect to one connector on some scaled devices.

Update 2

• Duplicate circuits may be created when copying devices between two drawings.
• Circuit Manager appears to hang in drawings with multiple tabs.
• Wire sizes may not appear in the first time Circuit Manager is activated.
• EPD Relative Pathing may not work on mapped networked drives.
• Exiting AutoCAD MEP with Circuit Manager open may lead to crash.
• Using Block Editor in a Panel Schedule drawing may lead to Circuits losing there name in the Schedule.

Info Center
Update 2

• Balloon notifications in Info Center may be blank when Windows 7 theme is set to classic

Performance
Update 2

• Compass repeatly sets Elevation value when Project Navigator is active.
• Opening drawings with large Xreferences may cause AutoCAD MEP to stop responding.
• Closing drawings may not release memory.

Multi-View Parts
Update 1

• Some linework is missing from certain MvParts.
• Radiator insertion fails, using the window option, if the radiator width or length is located in a basic table.
• Radiator Import does not set property data properly.
• Radiator valves are not aligned to the radiator when inserted using the plus grip.

Pipe
Update 1

• The formula for percentage slope by angle is incorrect. Fixing this means that an existing tool in which a specific number for percentage is stored will produce a different slope due to the new calculation.
• Pipe layouts with Very low slope cannot be created correctly.
• The Parallel Pipe command places new pipes on the wrong layer when systems use different layers.
• Some Pipe created in previous versions of AutoCAD MEP snaps to fittings when opened.

Update 2

• Some fittings accessed thru Runtime catalog may not appear in Routing Preferences.
• Some fittings may not appear correct when accessed thru a runtime catalog.

Plumbing
Update 2

• Plumbing Line overlapping with Plumbing fitting may lead to crash.
• Changing a Fitting Style on the Properties Palette may lead to the command line style control to not work.
• Selecting a Plumbing Line on Windows 7 operating system may lead to crash.

Schedules
Update 2

• Wrong area is calculated in BOM table with OE-NORM if length smaller than 400 and size constant in DACH profile.

Schematics
Update 2

• When filleting two schematic lines with schematic symbols, the schematic line end may snap to a schematic symbol.
• When drawing a short schematic line segment from a schematic symbol the schematic line may snap to the schematic symbol.

Sections
Update 2

• Creating a 2D section using large selection set on a 32 bit operating system may lead to crash.

Tool Palette
Update 2

• Dragging a Tool from Content Browser onto a Tool Palette may lead to script error.

Miscellaneous
Update 1

• CollisionDetection does not work as expected.
• "Copy to Clipboard failed" dialog will appear when copying an object that has been copy/pasted from another drawing.
• A fatal error will occur when creating an elbow with multiple segments.

Update 2

• Reloading Xrefs may lead to crash.

General Updates to AutoCAD Architecture

The following AutoCAD Architecture defects have been fixed:

AEC Dimensions
Update 1

• Multiple overlapping windows may lead to incorrect dimensions.

API
Update 1

• AutoCAD Architecture might crash when trying to define a Display Theme style using .NET API.

Doors/Windows/Openings
Update 2

• When a custom block is applied to a door, window, or door-window assembly, the block will be visible even if it is not within the cut plane range.
• Sometimes, you cannot insert an opening in a wall in a certain cleanup group.

Drawing Management
Update 2

• AutoCAD Architecture may crash when you repath certain projects with no drawings open.
• Renaming items in the Project Navigator, and repathing the project may cause AutoCAD Architecture to crash.

Export to AutoCAD
Update 2

• Export to Autocad sometimes causes AutoCAD Architecture to crash.

External References
Update 1

• Openings in external references with negative Z value are placed at an incorrect position.

Update 2

• When you execute UNDO command after binding an external reference, AutoCAD Architecture may become unresponsive.
• AutoCAD Architecture may crash if you unload an external reference, attach it again, and then execute an UNDO.

GBXML
Update 2

• Duplicate openings are created in gbXML output when walls are slightly off from being perpendicular to each other.

General UI
Update 2

• Checkboxes are not displayed correctly on the Object Snap tab of the Drafting Settings dialog on Windows 7.

IFC
Update 1

• Slabs may have the wrong elevation when imported from an IFC file due to an incorrect thickness offset.
• Exporting a drawing to IFC may create incorrect IFC GUIDs for AEC objects.
• Importing IFC files that contain certain material settings may crash.
• Space exported to IFC have the IFC type of IFCTYPEOBJECT instead of IFCSPACETYPE.

Update 2

• When you import an IFC file, containing a space that uses a negative value for extrusion, the extrusion is in the wrong direction.
• Importing an IFC file fails if it contains a 3D vector for True North direction.

Layers
Update 1

• The "New layer from Standard" button doesn't work in localized versions.
• Layer description fields are not automatically populated in all cases.

Update 2

• When the Layer Properties Manager is open, opening a drawing sometimes causes AutoCAD Architecture to crash.

Multiview Blocks
Update 2

• When AutoCAD Architecture and Civil 3D are installed side by side, AutoCAD Architecture crashes on executing MVBLOCKADD command.

Performance
Update 1

• Response is very slow when using Dynamic UCS and objects are Isolated.

Update 2

• Sometimes, it takes a long time to complete an UNDO after a COPY.

Property Palette
Update 1

• Changing an entry to one that is the first characters of the previous entry will not work in some fields.

Save
Update 2

• When you save a drawing to a previous version, sometimes, you are not warned about possible data loss.

Schedules
Update 1

• Schedules are not sorted as expected when values are a combination of numeric and alphabetic characters.

Update 2

• Sometimes, schedule table data is not rounded off as specificed in the property data format.

Sections
Update 1

• Some objects imported from Inventor display as points in 2D Sections.

Update 2

• When a window or door window assembly is sectioned, some linework may be missing in the section.

Structural Members
Update 1

• Custom block based on 3D Solids using Boolean operations are always placed at the start point.

Spaces
Update 2

• AutoCAD Architecture may crash when a spaced update is triggered for a large number of spaces within an external reference.

Wall Objects
Update 1

• AutoCAD Architecture might hang when opening certain drawings that contain modified Wall Endcaps.
• Window openings may not be created due to Wall Plan Modifiers.
• Using Refedit on a block containing Wall Object may cause a crash.

Update 2

• When working on a project located on a slow network, the wall and curtain wall tools are slow to respond.
• Some walls in an external reference display solution tips when the units of the host drawing are different from that of the external reference.
• AutoCAD Architecture will crash when you delete a component of a wall which is on a locked layer.

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• If you meet the online renewal program rules, you can renew your AutoCAD MEP subscription online. If you have already renewed your subscription, or are not a subscription customer, these options are not available.
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General Updates

The following AutoCAD defects have been fixed:

2D Drawing
Update 1

• If the PLINETYPE system variable is set to 0, STRETCH does not work as expected on arc segments of polylines.
• When the PLINETYPE system variable is set to 0, the closing point of a polyline with segments of different widths do not display correctly.
• If you use the JOIN command on splines, a duplicate control point is inserted.
• When you use the JOIN command on multiple polylines, AutoCAD may become unstable.

Update 2

• When drawing a closed heavy weight polyline with different width for each segment, the polyline cannot be closed properly.

3D Modeling
Update 1

• When you open a drawing that contains solids, some solids display briefly and then disappear.
• If a grip on a mesh face, edge, or vertex is highlighted and you use the ViewCube, AutoCAD may become unstable.

3D Navigation Tools
Update 1

• When you use the 3DORBIT command, you cannot orbit correctly. You can only orbit around a single pivot point and you cannot orbit around a specific object in a large group of objects.

Update 2

• AutoCAD may become unstable while dragging the cube and releasing the cursor at the top of the canvas.

Action Recorder
Update 1

• An Action Recorder macro created in AutoCAD 2009 may fail to run in AutoCAD 2010.

Annotation Scaling
Update 1

• When there are xrefs in a drawing, changing annotation scales takes a long time.
• When an annotative style multiline text (mtext) is rotated or surrounded by a hatch, the boundary box does not display correctly.

API
Update 2

• Exploding a block using "NetExplode" API modifies the "Global width" property of the polyline.

Blocks
Update 1

• When you turn off the display of an attribute with a visibility parameter in a dynamic block, the Enhanced Attribute Editor lists attribute prompts incorrectly.
• You cannot copy an object from an AutoCAD 2009 drawing and paste it as a block into an AutoCAD 2010 drawing.
• You cannot use the Properties palette to set the value of a action parameter to 0.
• When you delete a constraint parameter from a dynamic block, AutoCAD may become unstable.
• You cannot stretch some dynamic blocks as expected.

Check Spelling
Update 1

• When you run spellcheck on uppercase words, AutoCAD may become unstable.

CUI
Update 1

• When you save a workspace, if the Enterprise CUIx file is read-only, AutoCAD may become unstable.
• Toolbar flyouts close unexpectedly.

Customer Involvement Program
Update 2

• AutoCAD may fail to start up on Windows 7 workstations with Windows 2008 Server on the same subnet.

Data Extraction
Update 1

• When you use Data Extraction to extract the value of a block's multiline attribute into a table, text formatting code displays in the table.

Update 2

• Constrained attribute values may not extract properly based on drawing order.

DGN Support
Update 1

• When a DGN file is imported, some attributes are missing.

Update 2

• Restores the ability to use any extension when attaching DGN files.
• DGNIMPORT command with "Ignore all external references" option may not work.

Digital Signature
Update 1

• When you open a drawing, the Invalid signature dialog box may display even if the digital signature is valid.

Dimensions
Update 1

• You cannot create an angular dimension between two lines in different XY planes.

Update 2

• AutoCAD may become unstable when stretching multiple dimensions with dimbreaks applied.
• Cyrillic characters in dimension text may cause AutoCAD to incorrectly report that the drawing is corrupt after running RECOVER.

DWF
Update 1

• When the background color in AutoCAD is black, some DWF underlays do not display correctly.

DXF
Update 2

• When opening some DXF Files, you may receive a DXF error.

Dynamic Dimensions
Update 1

• When you use the COPYBASE command with Dynamic Input on, AutoCAD may become unstable.

ETransmit
Update 2

• AutoCAD may become unstable when using eTransmit.

Express Tools
Update 2

• AutoCAD may become unstable when editing height values for arc-aligned text in the Properties Palette.

Export Layout
Update 1

• When you use the EXPORTLAYOUT command on files in which Standard styles have been renamed, AutoCAD may become unstable.

External References
Update 1

• You may not be able to bind multiple xrefs that include nested xrefs.
• With the XATTACH command, you cannot select multiple xrefs.

Update 2

• Xrefs with true color gradients now display properly in 2D graphics modes.
• AutoCAD may display an error message about logic color -5 when attaching an xref.
• AutoCAD may become unstable when binding an xref.
• AutoCAD may become unstable when using right-click menu on an xref.

File Open
Update 1

• When you try to open a drawing file from a FTP site, AutoCAD may become unstable.

Update 2

• After applying Vista SP2 or on Windows 7 it is not possible to double click and open a folder that is using DFS Namespace.
• AutoCAD drawings saved in Vault may not display 2010 properties properly.
• Opening drawing files from older releases of AutoCAD may take a while to open.
• Unable to use asterisk "*" symbol on wildcard searches.

Find and Replace
Update 1

• If you use Find and Replace, autonumbering is deleted.

Font
Update 2

• AutoCAD may become unstable when using older version ".SHX" fonts.

General UI
Update 1

• On the status bar, the model or paperspace button may be missing, even after you have repeatedly turned it on.

Update 2

• AutoCAD may become unstable when more than one bubble is displayed and then closed.

Graphic System
Update 1

• When the background color is changed in an active paperspace viewport, the cursor disappears.
• After you plot a drawing in AutoCAD, if you lock Microsoft Windows and then unlock it, AutoCAD may become unstable.

Hatch
Update 1

• When you turn off the current layer while grip editing a hatch boundary, AutoCAD may become unstable.
• When the UCSVP system variable is set to 0, hatched objects align with the WCS rather than the UCS.
• When you grip-edit a hatch with an elliptical boundary, AutoCAD may become unstable.

Update 2

• AutoCAD may become unstable when double clicking on hatched areas in a drawing.

Image
Update 1

• When you attach some TIFF images, AutoCAD may become unstable.
• TIFF images may not display correctly.

Update 2

• Rotating an image with plines may appear to offset from the image.
• AutoCAD session may hang when plotting drawings with rotated Mr SID images attached.

InfoCenter
Update 2

• Balloon notification in InfoCenter is blank when Windows 7 display Theme is set to Classic.

Inquiry Tools
Update 1

• The AREA command fails on some polylines.

Keyboard Modifiers
Update 1

• When temporary overrides are enabled, keyboard input using the Shift key may not display on the command line.

Layers
Update 1

• Xrefs on locked layers do not display faded as expected. The LAYLOCKFADECTL system variable fails to alter them.
• When you delete a certain layer, all layers may be deleted.
• On the ribbon, the Layer drop-down does not display layers based on the current layer filter.

Update 2

• Layer groups may not remain deleted after reopening the Layer Manager.
• AutoCAD may become unstable when switching layouts if the Layer Description column is frozen.
• Objects on "layer 0" in an external reference do not display when the layer is turned on from the current drawing.

Licensing
Update 1

• When you set your system time back more than 2 days, your license is broken.
• When you use a proxy server for Internet access, the License Transfer Utility fails.

Linetype
Update2

• Some of the linetypes with text do not display correctly.

LiveUpdate
Update 1

• When you have Autodesk 2009 and AutoCAD 2010 installed side-by-side, LiveUpdate does not work in AutoCAD 2009.

Measurement Tools
Update 1

• When you use the MEASUREGEOM command, the tooltip and command line results are different. The tooltip result is incorrect.
• When you use the DIST command in model space, the results at the tooltip and the command line are different. The tooltip result is incorrect.

Migration
Update 1

• When you export certain profiles, AutoCAD may become unstable.
• When you save certain profiles migrated from AutoCAD 2009, AutoCAD 2010 may become unstable.

Multileader (mleader)
Update 1

• When you mirror mleaders that contain blocks with multiline attributes, the mirrored attributes are incorrectly justified.

OLE
Update 2

• AutoCAD can be slow when updating OLE objects in Microsoft Word 2007.
• "Paste to Original Coordinates" is disabled in right-click context menu after copying objects from another open drawing.
• AutoCAD may become unstable when pasting drawing files into Microsoft Word.

Organic Modeling
Update 2

• Gizmo may not display while in 3D Orbit.

Osnap
Update 2

• 64-bit AutoCAD may become unstable when using PRESSPULL on mesh object.

PDF
Update 1

• When you plot a drawing as a PDF file, the layer order is not alphabetized as expected.
• When a drawing that contains layers with names that include special characters is exported as a PDF, it cannot be opened.
• When you attach a large PDF file to your drawing, or try to attach it and then cancel the operation, performance is slow.

Update 2

• AutoCAD may hang when plotting large images to PDF.

Property Palette
Update 2

• AutoCAD may become unstable when using the Property Palette.

Publish
Update 1

• When Windows XP is set to Windows Classic theme, on any Asian language version of AutoCAD 2010, if you use the PUBLISH command, AutoCAD freezes.

Purge
Update 1

• On Windows Vista, in the Purge dialog box, when you attempt to use the Ctrl or Shift keys to select multiple items, the first highlighted item is de-selected.

Quick Access Toolbar
Update 2

• Opening a linked drawing from a Microsoft Office product may cause the Quick Access Toolbar to no longer display.

QUICKCALC
Update 1

• Calculations performed by the QUICKCALC command may be incorrect.

Recover
Update 1

• When you use the RECOVER command on an AutoCAD 2000 formatted drawing file, polylines and splines in the drawing are deleted.

Update 2

• Opening drawings with dense hatch appear to hang at 31%.
• Some older drawings containing 3DSOLIDS do not display.

Reference Edit
Update 1

• When you use the REFSET command, you can only add one instance of a block to the reference set. Other instances are rejected and an error message displays.

Ribbon
Update 1

• Text styles from an attached xref display in the Ribbon text style control.
• When you switch between AutoCAD Classic and other workspaces (for example, 2D Drafting & Annotation or 3D Modeling), performance becomes slow.
• Layers with a VP Freeze for a viewport indicate the VP Freeze status even when the viewport is not active.
• When you click the File menu in the zero doc state, AutoCAD freezes.
• After you unload a partial CUI file, a tab remains on the ribbon. If you click the tab, AutoCAD may become unstable.

Update 2

• AutoCAD may become unstable when switching to the Render tab of the Ribbon when .NET 4 is on the system.
• Legacy menu bar may display over the Ribbon when AutoCAD is not responding while opening large drawings.
• AutoCAD may become unstable when using Clipping Boundary control in the Ribbon.
• AutoCAD may become unstable when dragging a Ribbon Panel on Windows 7 64-bit operating system.

Section & Flatten
Update 1

• When you section solids through API, multiple memory leaks occur.

Update 2

• SECTIONPLANETOBLOCK may not work correctly when the sectionplane is not intersecting an object.
• After using the command SECTIONPLANE AutoCAD may become unstable.
• SECTIONPLANE may not display all cutaway geometry.

Seek
Update 1

• The SHAREWITHSEEK command may not work if the port used to communicate with Seek is blocked by a firewall.

Snaps
Update 1

• When you snap to the grid, there may be a slight offset from the grid.

Text
Update 2

• Bigfont may not be converted properly when saving a DWG to 2004 file format.

Visual Basic
Update 2

• May not be able to restore minimized AutoCAD with VBA loaded.

Visual Lisp
Update 1

• When you use the CECOLOR system variable, the value returned by using the Getvar function is incorrect.

Update 2

• LISP incorrectly converts some Japanese characters to CIF.

AutoCAD MEP 2010 Product Update 1 Now Available

General Updates to AutoCAD MEP

The following defects have been fixed in AutoCAD MEP 2010 Update 1:
Duct

• Duct Flanges are displayed incorrectly after moving a duct using grips.
• Velocity in Duct Modify does not match the Velocity in the Properties Palette.
• Add Selected does not work correctly when duct height is greater than duct width.
• Takeoff for branch is not sized correctly when duct height is greater than duct width.
• Top and Bottom Elevation are incorrect in tooltip when duct height is greater than duct width.

Electrical

• A crash may occur when closing a drawing with an EPD file that has a relative path.
• A crash may occur when converting multiple blocks to Devices.
• Wire will only connect to one connector on some scaled devices.
• Device modify via grip edit doesn't move or maintain its orientation as expected.
• The Add Automatic Property for a Device was not retrieving the Load Category or Number of Poles.

Pipe

• The formula for percentage slope by angle is incorrect. Fixing this means that an existing tool in which a specific number for percentage is stored will produce a different slope due to the new calculation.
• Pipe layouts with Very low slope cannot be created correctly.
• The Parallel Pipe command places new pipes on the wrong layer when systems use different layers.
• Some Pipe created in previous versions of AutoCAD MEP snaps to fittings when opened.

Multi-View Parts

• Some linework is missing from certain MvParts.
• Radiator insertion fails, using the window option, if the radiator width or length is located in a basic table.
• Radiator Import does not set property data properly.
• Radiator valves are not aligned to the radiator when inserted using the plus grip.

Display

• Haloed or hidden appearance for Plumbing Lines, Schematic lines and Wires do not display correctly.

Miscellaneous

• CollisionDetection does not work as expected.
• "Copy to Clipboard failed" dialog will appear when copying an object that has been copy/pasted from another drawing.
• A fatal error will occur when creating an elbow with multiple segments.

Problems in AutoCAD MEP Reported with the Customer Error Reporting Utility

As a result of detailed information from customers who used the Customer Error Reporting Utility, a number of problems were identified and fixed. Updates have been made in the following commands and features:

• Export to AutoCAD
• DuctFittingAdd
• Switch Model Space to Paper Space
• DuctSystemSizeCalc
• Opening Legacy drawings

General Updates to AutoCAD Architecture

The following defects have been fixed in AutoCAD Architecture 2010 Update 1:

AEC Dimensions

• Multiple overlapping windows may lead to incorrect dimensions.

API

• AutoCAD Architecture might crash when trying to define a Display Theme style using .NET API.

IFC

• Slabs may have the wrong elevation when imported from an IFC file due to an incorrect thickness offset.
• Exporting a drawing to IFC may create incorrect IFC GUIDs for AEC objects.
• Importing IFC files that contain certain material settings may crash.
• Space exported to IFC have the IFC type of IFCTYPEOBJECT instead of IFCSPACETYPE.

Layers

• The "New layer from Standard" button doesn't work in localized versions.
• Layer description fields are not automatically populated in all cases.

Performance

• Response is very slow when using Dynamic UCS and objects are Isolated.

Property Palette

• Changing an entry to one that is the first characters of the previous entry will not work in some fields.

Schedules

• Schedules are not sorted as expected when values are a combination of numeric and alphabetic characters.

Sections

• Some objects imported from Inventor display as points in 2D Sections.

Structural Members

• Custom block based on 3D Solids using Boolean operations are always placed at the start point.

Wall Objects

• AutoCAD Architecture might hang when opening certain drawings that contain modified Wall Endcaps.
• Window openings may not be created due to Wall Plan Modifiers.
  Using Refedit on a block containing Wall Object may cause a crash.

Xrefs

• Openings in Xrefs with negative Z value are placed at an incorrect position.

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Problems Reported with the Customer Error Reporting Utility

As a result of detailed information from customers who used the Customer Error Reporting Utility, a number of problems were identified and fixed. Updates have been made in the following commands and features:

• 3D Navigation Tools
• Action Recorder
• Annotation Scaling
• Blocks
• Check Spelling
• Customize User Interface (CUI)
• Database Connectivity
• Dimensions
• DWF
• Dynamic Dimensions
• External References
• File Navigation
• File Save
• Graphic System
• Hatch
• Image
• Keyboard Modifiers
• Licensing
• Migration
• Measure
• Memory Handling
• Multiline Text (mtext)
• Object Snaps
• Parametric Constraints
• PDF
• Purge
• Plot
• Quick Access Toolbar
• Ribbon
• Sheet Set Manager
• ShowMotion
• Visual Styles
  

General Updates

The following defects have been fixed:

2D Drawing

• If the PLINETYPE system variable is set to 0, STRETCH does not work as expected on arc segments of polylines.
• When the PLINETYPE system variable is set to 0, the closing point of a polyline with segments of different widths do not display correctly.
• If you use the JOIN command on splines, a duplicate control point is inserted.
• When you use the JOIN command on multiple polylines, AutoCAD may crash.
  

3D Modeling

• When you open a drawing that contains solids, some solids display briefly and then disappear.
• If a grip on a mesh face, edge, or vertex is highlighted and you use the ViewCube, AutoCAD crashes.
  

3D Navigation Tools

• When you use the 3DORBIT command, you cannot orbit correctly. You can only orbit around a single pivot point and you cannot orbit around a specific object in a large group of objects.

Action Recorder

• An Action Recorder macro created in AutoCAD 2009 may fail to run in AutoCAD 2010.

Annotation Scaling

• When there are xrefs in a drawing, changing annotation scales takes a long time.
• When an annotative style multiline text (mtext) is rotated or surrounded by a hatch, the boundary box does not display correctly.

Blocks

• When you turn off the display of an attribute with a visibility parameter in a dynamic block, the Enhanced Attribute Editor lists attribute prompts incorrectly.
• You cannot copy an object from an AutoCAD 2009 drawing and paste it as a block into an AutoCAD 2010 drawing.
• You cannot use the Properties palette to set the value of a action parameter to 0.
• When you delete a constraint parameter from a dynamic block, AutoCAD may crash.
• You cannot stretch some dynamic blocks as expected.

Check Spelling

• When you run spellcheck on uppercase words, AutoCAD may crash.

CUI

• When you save a workspace, if the Enterprise CUIx file is read-only, AutoCAD crashes.
• Toolbar flyouts close unexpectedly.
  

Data Extraction

• When you use Data Extraction to extract the value of a block's multiline attribute into a table, text formatting code displays in the table.
  

DGN Support

• When a DGN file is imported, some attributes are missing.
  

Digital Signature

• When you open a drawing, the Invalid signature dialog box may display even if the digital signature is valid.
  

Dimensions

• You cannot create an angular dimension between two lines in different XY planes.
  

DWF

• When the background color in AutoCAD is black, some DWF underlays do not display correctly.
  

Dynamic Dimensions

• When you use the COPYBASE command with Dynamic Input on, AutoCAD crashes.
  

Export Layout

• When you use the EXPORTLAYOUT command on files in which Standard styles have been renamed, AutoCAD crashes.
  

External References

• You may not be able to bind multiple xrefs that include nested xrefs.
  

File Open

• When you try to open a drawing file from a FTP site, AutoCAD may crash.
  

Find and Replace

• If you use Find and Replace, autonumbering is deleted.
  

General UI

• On the status bar, the model or paperspace button may be missing, even after you have repeatedly turned it on.
  

Graphic System

• When the background color is changed in an active paperspace viewport, the cursor disappears.
• After you plot a drawing in AutoCAD, if you lock Microsoft Windows and then unlock it, AutoCAD may crash.
  

Hatch

• When you turn off the current layer while grip editing a hatch boundary, AutoCAD crashes.
• When the UCSVP system variable is set to 0, hatched objects align with the WCS rather than the UCS.
• When you grip edit a hatch with an elliptical boundary, AutoCAD crashes.
  

Image

• When you attach some TIFF images, AutoCAD crashes.
• TIFF images may not display correctly.
  

Inquiry Tools

• The AREA command fails on some polylines.
  

Keyboard Modifiers

• When temporary overrides are enabled, keyboard input using the Shift key may not display on the command line.
  

Layers

• Xrefs on locked layers do not display faded as expected. The LAYLOCKFADECTL system variable fails to alter them.
• When you delete a certain layer, all layers may be deleted.
• On the ribbon, the Layer drop-down does not display layers based on the current layer filter.
  

Licensing

• When you set your system time back more than 2 days, your license is broken.
• When you use a proxy server for internet access, the License Transfer Utility fails.
  

LiveUpdate

• When you have Autodesk 2009 and AutoCAD 2010 installed side-by-side, LiveUpdate does not work in AutoCAD 2009.
  

Measurement Tools

• When you use the MEASUREGEOM command, the tooltip and command line results are different. The tooltip result is incorrect.
• When you use the DIST command in model space, the results at the tooltip and the command line are different. The tooltip result is incorrect.
  

Migration

• When you export certain profiles, AutoCAD crashes.
• When you save certain profiles migrated from AutoCAD 2009, AutoCAD 2010 crashes.
  

Multileader (mleader)

• When you mirror mleaders that contain blocks with multiline attributes, the mirrored attributes are incorrectly justified.
  

PDF

• When you plot a drawing as a PDF file, the layer order is not alphabetized as expected.
• When a drawing that contains layers with names that include special characters is exported as a PDF, it cannot be opened.
• When you attach a large PDF file to your drawing, or try to attach it and then cancel the operation, performance is slow.
  

Publish

• When Windows XP is set to Windows Classic theme, on any Asian language version of AutoCAD 2010, if you use the PUBLISH command, AutoCAD freezes.
  

Purge

• On Windows Vista, in the Purge dialog box, when you attempt to use the Ctrl or Shift keys to select multiple items, the first highlighted item is de-selected.
  

QUICKCALC

• Calculations performed by the QUICKCALC command may be incorrect.
  

Recover

• When you use the RECOVER command on a AutoCAD 2000 formatted drawing file, polylines and splines in the drawing are deleted.
  

Reference Edit

• When you use the REFSET command, you can only add one instance of a block to the reference set. Other instances are rejected and an error message displays.
  

Ribbon

• Text styles from an attached xref display in the Ribbon text style control.
• When you switch between AutoCAD Classic and other workspaces (for example, 2D Drafting & Annotation or 3D Modeling), performance becomes slow.
• Layers with a VP Freeze for a viewport indicate the VP Freeze status even when the viewport is not active.
• When you click the File menu in the zero doc state, AutoCAD freezes.
• After you unload a partial CUI file, a tab remains on the ribbon. If you click the tab, AutoCAD crashes.
  

Section & Flatten

• When you section solids through API, multiple memory leaks occur.
  

Seek

• The SHAREWITHSEEK command may not work if the port used to communicate with Seek is blocked by a firewall.
  

Snaps

• When you snap to the grid, there may be a slight offset from the grid.
  

Visual Lisp

• When you use the CECOLOR system variable, the value returned by using the Getvar function is incorrect.
  

UCS

• In AutoCAD 2010 German, you cannot use ribbon controls to modify coordinates.
  

Xrefs

• With the XATTACH command, you cannot select multiple xrefs.

Install Directory Differences Between Vista and XP

When you install an Autodesk program on Vista, the files are installed in a different location. Here are the differences between the two operating systems. If you are trying to tell a customer where to look for various autodesk files, this chart might help. This directory change is required for the software to be Vista compatible.


Windows XP

C:\Program Files\

C:\Documents and Settings\\Application Data\Autodesk\

C:\Documents and Settings\\Local Settings\Application Data\Autodesk\

C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Autodesk\

Windows VISTA

C:\Program Files\

C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\

C:\Users\\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\

You should replace with the name of each user that runs the product on this computer and replace and with the corresponding product information from the following list:

Installing AutoCAD MEP 2008 on a 64-bit OS

A co-worker of mine tried to install AutoCAD MEP 2008 on a 64-bit OS and it didn’t work immediately. He got a message that it was 32-bit and could not be installed on 64-bit system.

Out of the 2008 products, only AutoCAD 2008 is 64-bit compatible, and AutoCAD MEP 2008 is only 32-bit compatible. In 2009, all product lines are 64-bit compatible and this will not apply.

There is a discussion on this on the Autodesk Discussion groups where it posted instructions on how to get it installed by editing the .msi and setup.ini. Attached are the instructions on how to do this. The instructions say ACA.msi but this will change with the vertical you are trying to install. Apparently installing 2007 or earlier isn’t a problem.

1. Download and install Orca from Microsoft.
   http://www.technipages.com/wp-content/uploads/2007/11/orca.Msi
2. Copy the installation files to your hard drive or a network folder.
3. Backup the files ACA.msi and Setup.ini
4. Edit the ACA.msi with Orca and delete the action found in the table "InstallExecuteSequence" that is called "CheckFor64BitOS" Delete the same line under table "CustomAction"
5. Save and close the ACA.msi
6. Edit the Setup.ini with Notepad. Delete the line under "#==================== Platform Requirement" that is labeled "PLATFORM=NO_WOW_64_PROCESS"
7. Double-click the Setup.exe and you should be able to install without any problems.
8. If you leave the default paths for the installation of the content, this may or may not apply.
9. Some support paths under the "Files" tab of the configuration dialog box have incorrect paths. The installer adds and extra "\AppData\AppData" to some support paths located in the user profile. For example the Main Customization File's path is listed as"C:\Users\%username%\AppData\AppData\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\ACD-A 2008\enu\Support\ADT" when it should be "C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\ACD-A 2008\enu\Support\ADT"
10. Fix the incorrect paths, hit apply, and you are good to go.
11. Set the paths for all content to be on your network drive. Here’s how I set the folder structure and edited the paths during installation…

Portable Standalone Licenses

To open the Portable License Utility.

1. On the target computer, click Start menu (Windows) /All Programs (or Programs) /Autodesk Architectural Desktop / Portable License Utility.

To obtain a computer identification code from the target computer

1. Write down the computer identification code, which is shown in the lower-left corner of the Portable License Utility window.
2. You will add the computer identification code from this target computer to the computer list on the source computer.
3. To add a computer to the computer list
4. On the Computers tab, a list of computers to which you can export a license is displayed.
5. Click Add.
6. In the Add Computer dialog box, enter the computer name and computer identification code of the target computer. Click OK.
7. The information you added is displayed in the computer list on the Computers tab.
8. In the Portable License Utility window, click Close.

To export a license

1. On the Licenses tab, select the license you want to export. Click Export License.
2. The Export License dialog box displays the Autodesk product name and license name, and lists the computer name and identification code of all computers in the computer list.
3. In the Export To list, select a Target Computer.
4. The target computer is the only place this exported license can go. You cannot select one target computer now and then transfer the license to a different computer. In the Export To list, select a target computer.
5. Check your notes to verify that the identification code is correct for the target computer.
6. The identification code displayed here must match the code on the target computer exactly.
7. Under Export Type, select an export type.
8. You must select Use Transfer File if this is the first time you are transferring this license to the target computer. The transfer file contains license information needed by the target computer.
9. Click Transfer License.
10. In the Export Succeeded dialog box, click OK.
11. In the Portable License Utility window, click Close

Install the Autodesk product

1. Install the Autodesk product on the target computer from the Network Image created from the Deployment Wizard. You do not have to register or activate the product on your target computer.

To import a license

1. On the Licenses tab, click Import License.
2. In the Import License dialog box, select a license transfer option. Make sure that you select the same transfer option that you used when you exported the license.
3. Click Import.
4. The license is now imported to the target computer; you can now run your Autodesk product on this computer. If you want to return the license to the original computer, repeat the export and import procedures.
5. In the Portable License Utility window, click Close

Unable to use shared ABS 2007.1 content with network deployment

You created a network deployment for Autodesk® Building Systems 2007.1 (ABS) and placed shared content for your ABS catalogs in a shared network location. However, when you tried to add a part, you received an error message stating that the part could not be found.

When you create a deployment for Autodesk® Building Systems that includes shared ABS content, you need to include the profile. Otherwise, you will not be able to load the content from a shared location onto other computers.

To resolve this error, you need to edit the registry keys on each of the computers where this error occurs. Follow these steps:

1. Click Start menu (Windows) > Run.
2. In the Run dialog box, enter regedit
3. In the Registry Editor, browse to the following key:
   
   HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Autodesk\AutoCAD\R17.0\ACAD-5106:409\Profiles\Building Engineering - US Imperial\Preferences\AecbCatalog50
   
   
4. Edit the ConfigPath registry subkey so that it points to the location of your shared content.
5. In the Registry Editor, browse to the following key:
   
   HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Autodesk\AutoCAD\R17.0\ACAD-5106:409\Profiles\Building Engineering – US Imperial\Preferences\AecbEnumMap50
   
   
6. Edit the ConfigPath registry subkey so that it points to the location of your shared content.

Warning! Problems caused by improperly editing the Windows registry could render your computer operating system unusable. Microsoft provides a wealth of critical information that you need to know about the registry in the Microsoft Knowledge Base.

Use the Microsoft® Registry Editor only at your own risk and only after backing up the registry as well as the system.dat and user.dat files as outlined for your operating system in the Microsoft Knowledge Base and in the related Autodesk solution, TS66513. Additional information about the registry is also contained in the Help topics in the Microsoft Registry Editor.