July 18, 2017

Fixes plus customer-requested enhancements for Inventor and Inventor Professional 2018 including Model Based Definition (MBD) for assemblies, iLogic global event triggers, faster drawing view updates, AnyCAD support for SolidEdge, and more. Check out What’s New in Inventor 2018.1 for details.

Contents




Notes about Installation and Uninstallation

Installation Requirements

Download Location

Summary of Known Issues

3D Annotations

API

Application Functionality

Communication and Interoperability

iLogic

Summary of Fixed Issues

API

Application Functionality

Assembly Modeling

Communication and Interoperability

Enhanced Visualization

Design Accelerator

Part Modeling

Simulation

Sheet Metal

Legal Notice

General

• Inventor 2018.1 Update (Build 171) installs on Autodesk Inventor 2018 (Build 112).
• When appending Inventor 2018.1 Update for a deployment, update the deployment image on the same bit-type computer as the computer used for the final installation from that image. For more information about Installing Inventor, see the Inventor Installation Supplement.
• Keep the original installation media or network image accessible during installation and uninstallation.
• Inventor 2018.1 Update includes released hotfixes for Autodesk Inventor 2018. No prerequisite installations are required.

Installation

• Autodesk Inventor 2018.1 installs .NET 4.6.2 to your operating system.
• Update your operating system before installing Autodesk Inventor 2018.1 Update.
• Make sure Inventor is closed before installing Autodesk Inventor 2018.1 Update.
• Double-click the .exe file to update Autodesk Inventor 2018 with 2018.1 Update, an installer window will show the install progress while the installer updates the files on your system.
• Reboot your system after the installation of 2018.1 Update.



Check the Control Panel to verify the installation was successful.

Windows 7: Start Menu -> Control Panel -> Programs -> Program and Features -> Installed Updates.

Windows 8: Control Panel on the desktop Charms Bar -> Settings menu -> Programs-> Program and Features -> Installed Updates.

Windows 10: Start Menu -> Control Panel -> Settings menu -> Programs-> Program and Features -> Installed Updates.




The Programs list should display, Autodesk Inventor Professional 2018.1 Update, version: 171, the installation was successful.

Uninstallation

• Have the original source media available when uninstalling.
• The installation process is prolonged as it waits for the operating system’s file updates to time out. This process takes up to two hours.
• To speed up the uninstall process, 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 2018.1 Update is complete.

Deployment

There are several ways to help you append Inventor 2018.1 Update to deployment image.

• Method 1
1. On the Deployment Configuration Complete page, click Add Updates.
2. In the Application Manager dialog box, on the update tab, select Inventor 2018.1 Update and add it. Please note, when installing Inventor 2018.1 Update from the deployment, 2018.1 Update install window will not be shown, 2018.1 Update will be installed with silent mode.


• Method 2
1. In the Create Deployment installer, access the configure options, and navigate to the Additional section.
2. Add Inventor 2018.1 Update and modify the name if you want. Please note: if you don’t want the 2018.1 Update installation process dialog shown, please add “/S” as the command line parameter


• Method 3
1. Create a deployment, under Img folder, create sub-folder ADDONS\ADDON_INVENTOR2018.1_0 and copy INVENTOR2018.1.exe into this folder.
2. Open DeployName.ini file which is located in Img folder as well. Find ADDON_SEQUENCE and add “ADDON_SEQUENCE=ADDON_INVENTOR2018.1_0” add the following text in the bottom of the file

[ADDON_INVENTOR2018.1_0]

PRODUCT_NAME=New Add-on

EXE_PATH=Addons\ADDON_INVENTOR2018.1_0\Inventor2018.1.exe

EXE_PARAM=/S

LOG=%tmp%\New Add-on.log

DISKCOST=380739944

IGNORE_FAILURE=YES

ROLLBACKABLE=NO

ACTION=INSTALL

3. Save the DeployName.ini.

Known Installation Issues

• If Inventor was installed from a network location, the installation of 2018.1 Update may run up to twice as slow as expected. This is due to additional security checking by Microsoft. For more information, please see Installation might require several hours to complete. You can opt out of the additional Microsoft security checking by running the 2018.1 Update installer from the Windows command line with the optional argument OPTOUT_KB2918614=1
• After installing 2018.1 Update, Autodesk Guided Tutorial Plugin will be updated from RTM version(4.40.0) to new version(4.60.0), after uninstalling 2018.1 Update, Guided Tutorial Plugin cannot roll back to RTM version. If you want to roll back to RTM version, uninstall Guided Tutorial Plugin from Control Panel -> Settings menu -> Programs-> Program and Features, then install it again from original source media ...x64\LWS\AutodeskGuidedTutorialPlugin.msi.
• A Warning 1946 dialog may be seen during installation. This is a benign Microsoft warning and can be safely ignored. Click OK to dismiss the warning.

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• Verify that you have administrator privileges on your local machine to install Autodesk Inventor 2018.1 Update.
• Autodesk Inventor 2018.1 Update is approximately 363 MB in size. A minimum of 2.7 GB of free disk space is required on the drive where temporary files are directed.

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You can download and automatically install Inventor 2018.1 Update with Autodesk Desktop App, or download Autodesk Inventor 2018.1 Update from Inventor 2018 Updates, then install it manually.

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3D Annotations

• Switching between Preparations, Welds and Machining folders in Weldment environment removes existing annotations and the Annotations folder.
• Moving End of Part above a part or assembly feature in the browser removes the 3D annotations attached to these features.
• After deleting a part or assembly feature, annotations attached to them are deleted in the scene, however, the browser nodes are not removed.

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API

• Cannot set CornerFeature.Definition.CornerOptions.
• IsFutureCADFile, CanCADFileBeAssociativelyImported and GetCADFileStructure methods do not work for ApprenticeServerComponent.

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Application Functionality

• Inventor context menu commands are missing in some Win10 machines.
• Ctrl+N/O does not work immediately after starting Inventor with iLogic add-in loaded and Show My Home on startup option is off.
• Editing a Direct feature causes the browser to move incorrectly to the top.
• Inventor stops working or may unexpectedly exit when clicking Un-Resolved filter.

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Communication and Interoperability

• Invisible weldment bodies of Solid Edge file are imported as visible bodies into Inventor.
• Additional surface bodies are generated when you import Solid Edge weldment file into Inventor.
• The visibility settings of Show/Hide Component in Solid Edge are ignored when you import a Solid Edge assembly file into Inventor.

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iLogic

• Warning dialog pops up for all iLogic rules if Inspect rules for malicious code option in iLogic Security dialog is on.

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API

• ContourFlangeDefinition.Definition.ExtentDirection does not work for specific case.
• Added TemplateFilename and BOMStructure for FileMetadata to allow users to specify the template and default BOM structure.
• Inventor unexpectedly exits when switching panels with BrowserPane.OnActive event watching.
• Non transacting client graphics does not work as expected.

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Application Functionality

• You may not be able to scroll the browser.
• Studio browser does not display after pressing Ctrl+0.
• After using the edit in place command the browser scroll position now moves from the command that was just edited to the top of the browser.
• The Application Options > General tab > Text appearance setting has no impact on the Model browser.
• Browser panel may undock by a single click when mouse speed is very fast.
• Marking Menu displays trails when you right-click and immediately move the mouse.
• iLogic rules created in one session of Inventor fail to display in the iLogic browser the next time you open the file.
• Inventor sometimes unexpectedly exits when exiting Inventor when HSM is loaded.

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Assembly Modeling

• Inventor unexpectedly exits when you edit Shrinkwrap feature with exclude or include components and Associative option is enabled.
• BOM column sort in Model Data tab does not work.
• Inventor sometimes unexpectedly exits in Stress Analysis environment with error alert.
• Shrinkwrap dialog is clipped.
• Inventor unexpectedly exits when you switch the level of detail from the drop-down list in the Shrinkwrap dialog during editing shrinkwrap feature.
• Features are not maintained on a part which are initially removed and then selected from excluded view.
• Sub-assembly components set to invisible may continue to be visible.
• Selected component is not deleted in Assembly by pressing Delete key.
• Work geometries do not highlight in the graphic window when hovering mouse over browser in Constraint dialog.
• Edit constraint value does not behave correctly after you undo and redo a constraint edit.
• The QTY is always "1" in Excel sheet for iAssembly part members when exporting a BOM.
• Numeric values are incorrectly converted to text when exporting a Parts List to Excel.

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Communication and Interoperability

• STEP associative import causes Inventor to unexpectedly exit when you use a Vault project.
• Inventor may not respond when you add an instance of a DWG underlay.
• Inventor may not respond when you hover your mouse over a DWG underlay geometry in the graphics window.
• Error occurs when you open Catia 2017 V4 assembly files.
• Inventor unexpectedly exits when you export a file to the Revit family file format if the Revit Interoperability sub component is not installed.

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Design Accelerator

• Inventor unexpectedly exits when you edit a ring feature.
• Belleville spring generator disappears after turning off and turning on the Spring Set option.

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Enhanced Visualization

• The Surface analysis does not display correctly.
• Multi-Sampling Anti-Aliasing does not take effect when the Quality mode setting is inherited from the previous Inventor install.
• The cutout appearance unexpectedly reflects to the section view body.

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Part Modeling

• The performance issue loading Thread/Clearance data is resolved. Inventor now reads the Excel spreadsheet for Thread or Clearance data using the Excel libraries, and no longer loads Excel even when Excel is installed on the local machine.

  ATTENTION: The environment variable UseLibXL is no longer required, and should be removed from your system as it can prevent Excel from being used for table write operations.

• Unable to display the pattern edit window.
• You may not be able to select a hole feature from the graphics window.
• Selecting an edge to create Chamfer, and then clicking on a different position, may lead the partial chamfer to stop working.
• Inventor unexpectedly exits when you measure a partial chamfer.
• The chamfer preview turns into transparent after measure and then zoom.
• Measure tolerance can be set to 14 decimals.
• Dimensions disappear due to auto-update after clicking Show Dimensions and edit sketch dimension.
• Press S to invoke Sketch command does not work.
• Pattern dialog does not display when you double click a pattern occurrence to edit the feature.
• Select Other does not display when Extrude-To/Between or Fillet etc. is active.

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Simulation

• Inventor stops working after clicking Run in the simulation player.
• Inventor unexpectedly exits when you delete the parts with Dynamic Simulation run.
• Inventor unexpectedly exits in Frame Analysis environment.
• Warning displays and cannot create Frame Analysis successfully.

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Sheet Metal

• Inventor unexpectedly exits when you update the style in a sheet metal part file.

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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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