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This
Month
 News
Autodesk Inventor DWF Extension now
available,
Inventor View 11 download,
In The Press -
Autodesk's World Cup Contribution
Tips & Tricks
New Technical Documents
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X64 & Inventor FAQs,
DWF Tips & Tricks
Inventor Tips -
Inventor Installation Error 1406, Preset
Standard for Design Accelerator, Content
Center crash after SP1 is installed
Miscellaneous Tips - License Promotion
AutoCAD Tips -
Slow response from @ Key, Graphics hardware
compatibility list
Vault Tips -
Upgrading to SQL Server 2005 ExpressDownloads,
Hotfixes and Service Packs
Inventor Graphics Hardware Update,
Vault & Productstream hotfix for DWF 7, 3 Hotfixes
for AutoCAD products
Tea Break
With the
World Cup in full flow this month's tea
break link has a football theme.
News
DWF Viewer 7 &
Inventor DWF Extension released
Autodesk
have this month released the latest version
of the DWF Viewer, Version 7, and a new
Inventor extension version with enhanced dwf
publishing functionality. The new Inventor
version, available for subscription
customers from the Autodesk subscription
site, takes advantage of the new
functionality now available:
Animations
and assembly instructions from presentation
files,
Positional representations and design views,
Structured or Parts-only BOM,
Active Level of Detail
View, Hyperlinks,
FEA results
along with enhanced security and
design review capabilities.
Download the latest dwf viewer
here and then review the new
capabilities in the samples on the Micro
Concepts Web Site
here.
Just press N to bring up the Navigator to
access all the different areas now available,
including views and animations.
DWF 7 SAMPLES
Download the
PowerPoint of
What's New in the Inventor11 DWF Extension
here
Autodesk Inventor View 11
The version
11 compatible Inventor View program is now
freely available for download from the
Autodesk web site. Inventor View allows
viewing of the native Inventor 11 format
files. We would still recommend producing
dwfs and using dwf viewer in preference to
viewing native Inventor files which are much
larger. However Autodesk give you the full
choice of viewing options, native or
lightweight, so you can choose the option
that best suits your situation.
Inventor View 11 can be downloaded from
here.
In The Press
 No
Micro Concepts press releases this month but
a rather topical released from Autodesk on
how their media and entertainments division
are contributing to the broadcasting from
Germany.
The official press release is on this link:
2006 FIFA World Cup: Autodesk Technology
Used to Create World-Class, High-Definition
Commercials and Broadcast Graphics
If you go to
www.autodesk.com/worldcup you will also
find video links to some of the broadcast
materials
Tips and Tricks
New Technical Documents
Inventor Large Assembly Capacity & x64
Computers - Frequently Asked Questions
Inventor 11 delivers easy-to-use
and flexible large assembly management tools
that provide complete control over how much
data is loaded into memory during the design
session. Combine that with new x64 computers
that offer increased performance and
expanded memory capacity and you have a
winning combination. The key to efficient
use of new x64 computers is memory
management tools that let the user control
how much data is loaded into memory.
Autodesk Inventor® 11 software provides such
tools.
This FAQ document will help you understand
Autodesk's approach to these new x64
computers. From the outset, Autodesk Inventor was
designed to provide the scalability required
to create very large assemblies regardless
of the computer architecture. Read the
questions and answers to learn
more about why Autodesk Inventor software is
the best choice for large, 3D assembly
designs both today and in the future.
DWF Tips & Tricks
This set of
DWF Tips and Tricks provides users with
the information needed to get the most from
DWF.
Many other documents can be found in the
Technical Documents section of the
Members area.
Autodesk Inventor Tips
Inventor Installation
Error 1406
This has been
published in the last 2 technical bulletins
but this problem is still tripping some of
you up.
You try to install Inventor you receive the following error message:
Error 1406.
Could not write value to key
SoftwareClassesCLSID{D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000}Programmable.
Verify that you have sufficient access to
that key, or contact your support personnel.
This error
happens if you have Macromedia Flash Player
8a installed. This version of Flash Player
is newer than the version that is installed
when you install Autodesk Inventor. You will
need to uninstall Macromedia flash player
before retrying the Inventor installation.
To uninstall
macromedia player run
C:\WINDOWS\system32\Macromed\Flash\UninstFl.exe.
Also check if Macromedia is in the list of
installed software in the add/remove
programs from control panel. If it is also
remove it from there before re-attempting
the installation.
Preset standard for Design Accelerator
The preset
standard for Design Accelerator in Inventor
11 can be modified by modifying the
following registry key:
HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Autodesk\Inventor\RegistryVersion11.0\DesignAccelerator\UniTools\
LastStandard
Change the
value for "LastStandard" to "ANS" for ANSI,
"DIN" for DIN, "ISO" for ISO.
Inventor
11 Content Center crash after SP1 is
installed
After SP1 for
Inventor 11 is installed on all clients you
may encounter a problem where the content
center crashes when you insert certain
parts, however other parts work fine. This
occurs when the folders "Design Data" and "Catalog"
are stored on a server for central use.
Installing SP1 will not update them. To make
sure these files will also be updated, copy
these folders back to the local machine,
install SP1 and then copy these folders back
to the server.
Miscellaneous Tips
License
Promotion
There are many questions and uncertainty
about the new cascading network license
functionality. In a mixed product
environment cascading licenses allow for a
higher product level license to be obtained
if the applicable lowest level licenses are
all in use. The diagram below shows the
license search matrix. For example when
starting AutoCAD Mechanical an available
AutoCAD Mechanical license is first searched
for. If one is unavailable a search is made
for an available Inventor Series License. If
this is unavailable the next level license
is attempted to be located, Inventor
Professional.
But what happens if AutoCAD Mechanical is
running on a machine using an AutoCAD
Mechanical License and Inventor Series or
Professional is started on the same machine?
An Inventor license will then be required so
will 2 licenses be tied up on one machine
rather than a single Inventor Series
license. The answer is no. When using a network
license after a couple of minutes of
running two cascading license applications next to each
other, the cheapest application upgrades its
license to the more expensive application.
For example: Start AutoCAD Mechanical.
It will use a 51900AMECH_PP_2007_0F license.
Then also start Inventor Professional. It will use a
51400INVPRO_11_0F license, so at that point,
two licenses are in use.
A couple of minutes
later AutoCAD Mechanical releases its
license and upgrades to a 51400INVPRO_11_0F
license.
Now only a single license is in use
(because using two licenses of the same
product on the same machine only counts a
single license).
If you exit Inventor Professional first,
AutoCAD Mechanical does not demote back to its
original license!
Note: an application can
upgrade its license only once, so if you
first run AutoCAD Mechanical, then run
Inventor Series, AutoCAD Mechanical will
upgrade to an Inventor Series license. If
you then also start Inventor Professional,
AutoCAD Mechanical will keep using an
Inventor Series license and Inventor Series
will upgrade to an Inventor Professional
license.
AutoCAD Tips
Slow Response from @ Key
You may notice that when you press the @ symbol on the
keyboard, the symbol was not immediately displayed
on the command line. The symbol doesn't
appear until the SHIFT key
is released and sometimes results in
incorrect keyboard entries being carried
out. This issue can occur when Dynamic
Input has been disabled.
To work around the problem you can enable Dynamic Input by clicking DYN
on the status bar, or by pressing F12.
Alternatively you can disable Temporary Overrides by
setting the TEMPOVERRIDES variable to 0.
If these workarounds are not
implemented, the @ symbol will appear on
the command line once the SHIFT key has
been released. You can then resume
normal keyboard entry.
AutoCAD 2007 Graphics
Hardware Compatibility List
Inventor users will be familiar with the
high level graphics card requirement to
correctly run Inventor. Autodesk have a card
certification list that shows the certified
cards and, just as importantly, the graphics
driver version required for best operation.
With the introduction of AutoCAD 2007, and
its higher level graphics requirement,
Autodesk have now introduced a graphics
compatibility list for AutoCAD. AutoCAD
users should check this list to ensure they
are running suitable hardware and driver
combination for stable operation of the
latest AutoCAD version.
You can find the AutoCAD graphics
compatibility list
here.
Vault Tips
How To upgrade from
Microsoft SQL Server Desktop Edition to
Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Express for
Autodesk Vault 5
MSDE (the
version of the SQL database behind Vault
server) has a database limit of 2GB. When a
vault database reaches this size it will
immediately prevent any additional changes
to be carried out preventing you adding or
modifying your vaulted data. In Vault 4 the
only solution was to upgrade to a full
version of SQL Server 2000 which also
required a Windows server operating system.
Vault 5 gives us more options to overcome
this problem as SQL server 2005 is now
supported. We can upgrade to SQL server 2005
express edition which is the free version
next generation of MSDE. SQL Server 2005
express has a 4GB database limit, double the
MSDE 2GB limit. SQL Server 2005 Express is
on the Inventor DVD and has a special setup
wrapper that carries out all necessary
changes to upgrade your existing MSDE
installation. The upgrade can be carried out
as follows:
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Perform
(and test) a backup from Vault Manager
of your current vaults.
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Insert your Inventor 11 DVD
in to the
server.
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Open
Windows Explorer and navigate to the
bin\acadfeui\upgradeSQL2005
directory on the DVD
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Run
the setup.exe file to carry out the
upgrade.
If you should subsequently reach the 4GB
limit of 2005 Express you will need to
upgrade to one of the purchasable SQL 2005
licenses. Vault 5 supports SQL 2005
workgroup edition, which, as well as being
about half the price of SQL Standard
edition, will run on Windows XP as Express
edition also does. If you have 10 or less
users accessing vault you can utilise a
windows XP machine as your vault server
which is significantly cheaper than Windows
2003 server.
Downloads, Service Packs & Updates
New Downloads, Service Packs & Updates released
this Month.
Major service packs in bold.
A full list of current service packs can
be found in the members area on the
website
here
.
Inventor
Inventor Series 11
Hotfix - Performance problems with
Autoloader and Design Assistant
Mechanical Desktop 2007
Hotfix - Fatal Error During Save
Graphics
Hardware Library File (June 7th 2006)
Inventor certified Nvidia Graphics
Driver (latest certified driver
version 84.26)
Inventor Series 10
Hotfix - Seam Welds Disappear When Near
Some Broken Views
Graphics
Hardware Library File (June 7th 2006)
Inventor certified Nvidia Graphics
Driver (latest certified driver
version 84.26)
Inventor Professional
 Inventor Professional
11
Hotfix - Performance problems with
Autoloader and Design Assistant
Mechanical Desktop 2007
Hotfix - Fatal Error During Save
Graphics
Hardware Library File (June 7th 2006)
Inventor certified Nvidia Graphics
Driver (latest certified driver
version 84.26)
Inventor Professional
10
Hotfix - Seam Welds Disappear When Near
Some Broken Views
Graphics
Hardware Library File (June 7th 2006)
Inventor certified Nvidia Graphics
Driver (latest certified driver
version 84.26)
Vault
Vault 5
Hotfix - Inventor 11 DWF Extension
Needed for Autodesk Design Review 2007 &
DWF Viewer 7
Hotfix - DWF Publish Inconsistency with
Inventor and EDIT Command
Productstream
Productstream 5
Hotfix - Inventor 11 DWF Extension
Needed for Autodesk Design Review 2007 &
DWF Viewer 7
Hotfix - DWF Publish Inconsistency with
Inventor and EDIT Command
AutoCAD Mechanical
AutoCAD Mechanical 2007
Hotfix - Fatal Error During Save
Hotfix - Cut and Paste
Certified Hardware XML Database Update
AutoCAD AutoCAD 2007
Hotfix - Fatal Error During Save
Hotfix - Cut and Paste
Certified Hardware XML Database Update
AutoCAD Electrical
AutoCAD Electrical 2007
Hotfix - Fatal Error During Save
Hotfix - Cut and Paste
Certified Hardware XML Database Update Tea Break
  With
the world cup in full swing you may be in
need of some light relief from the endless
match debating. This months link is to a
special world cup version of a football
favourite, Football 365's look-alikes.
We've all seen David Hasselhoff
masquerading as the Germany goalkeeper but
have a look
here for some not so obvious
twins.
As well as
look-alikes there's also the added
bonus of the World Cups
Worst Haircuts and the
Ugliest footballers poll.
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