Autodesk Inventor 2018.3.10 Update Readme

05-May-2020

Thank you for downloading the Autodesk® Inventor® 2018.3.10 Update.

This readme contains important information regarding the installation and contents of the Update.

Important: Inventor Updates are cummulative of the updates released after the prerequisite set for each Inventor 2018 update.

Prerequisite: Inventor 2018.3 Update

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Applying Updates

As the Inventor Updates are cummulativ, the Inventor Update install process will silently uninstall perviously installed updates back to the set prerequisite for the current update being installed. Note that in the event that current update needs to be uninstalled then previously installed updates should be automatically reinstalled as required. In the event that the previous updates are not automatically restored, they will need to be manually reinstalled.

Inventor Updates can be applied to Inventor installed as a standalone application or installed as part of a Suite or Collection. You can apply this Update on:

After applying this Update, the product build in the About Box will be listed as Build:280 Inventor 2018.3.10 Update.

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New Feature and Feature Enhancement Summary

The following Links summarize the new features and enhancements provided in the specific Updates:

What's New for Inventor 2018.3

What's New for Inventor 2018.2

What's New for Inventor 2018.1

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Known Issues in Updates

The following issues have been identified, in the new features delivered in the corresponding Update, through validation and customer testing. These Issues are being investigated for resolution in a future update or release:

 

Fusion Interop

  • When Inventor 2019 has established an AnyCAD reference to a Fusion 360 file (.fusiondesign) in Fusion Team, Inventor 2018 might fail to download it. The workaround is to update the Fusion 360 design to a new version and create a new AnyCAD reference in Inventor 2018. This is a known issue that we are looking to address in the future. (INVGEN-12774)

Problems Reported Through the Customer Error Reporting Utility

As a result of the detailed information that we received from customers who used the Customer Error Reporting Utility, we were able to identify and fix several defects with the following results:

 

Add-Ins - Tube and Pipe

  • Improved stability and robustness when working in the Tube and Pipe environment. (INVGEN-37731)

Assemblies

Drawings - Sheets

  • Improved stability when opening DWG files. (INVGEN-37093)

Assemblies - Derived - Shrinkwrap

  • Improved stability when updating Derived Part file. (INVGEN-34244)

Add-Ins - Cable and Harness

  • Improved stability when opening a nailboard .idw file. (INVGEN-31934)

Add-Ins - Tube and Pipe

  • Improved stability when redefining a Tube & Pipe node. (INVGEN-31840)

Add-Ins - Content Center

  • Improved stability when using the Place from Content Center command in Inventor that is installed on a Windows 10 OS. (INVGEN-29693)

Add-Ins - Tube and Pipe

  • Improved stability using the right-click context menu when the Tube and Pipe routing command is active. (INVGEN-29960)

Drawing - Annotations

  • Improved stability when creating a Leader text annotation in a .dwg file. (INVGEN-28837)

Add-Ins - Cable and Harness

  • Improved stability when accessing the context menu from the properties of a Nailboard harness. (INVGEN-24190)

Assemblies - iAssembly

  • Improved stability with Excel driven assemblies. (INVGEN-27711)

Drawings

  • Improved stability when opening idw file. (INVGEN-26299)

General

  • Improved stability when working with large assemblies. (INVGEN-20434)
  • General stability improvements made to Inventor. (INVGEN-26924)

Platform - API

  • Improved stability when retrieving the API object HoleClearenceInfo. (INVGEN-26741)

Translators - DWG-DXF

  • Improved stability when opening dwg file. (INVGEN-26466)

Assemblies

  • Improved stability when moving the End Of Part marker. (INVGEN-22947)

Platform

  • Improved stability when dragging file into UI to open document. (INVGEN-16764)

Assemblies

  • Improved stability when opening assembly and creating custom properties though the Inventor API. (INVGEN-20603)

Add-Ins - Vault

  • Improved stability when placing iAssembly from Vault. (INVGEN-18933)

Parts - Draft

  • Improved stability when closing the Face Draft dialog box, after making an edit without the face selected. (INVGEN-15576)

Parts - Extrude/Revolve/Sweep/Coil

  • Improved stability when pressing ESC or Undo to cancel preview when using the Hole/Extrude/Revolve commands. (INVGEN-16699)

Parts - Measure

  • Improved stability when using measure command. (INVGEN-19089)

Assembly - Mirror/Copy/Replace

  • Improved stability when mirroring part in assembly. (INVGEN-16506)

Drawing

  • Improved stability when working with the Design Doctor in a drawing. (INVGEN-15086)

Parts - 2D Sketch

  • Improved stability when creating a pattern. (INVGEN-13957)

Parts - Derive

  • Improved stability with updating derived part. (INVGEN-15860)
  • Improved stability with 3D printing. (INVGEN-15087)

Platform - Graphics

  • Improved stability with large assembly graphics. (INVGEN-15127)

Presentations

  • Improved stability with presentation files. (INVGEN-14844)

API

  • Improved stability when assigning an empty string from a control element (ComboBox/TextBox) to a parameter. (INVGEN-13385)

Application Functionality

  • Improved stability when opening a file on a connected drive from My Home. (INVGEN-7555)
  • Improved stability when saving a file after closing the Parameters dialog. (INVGEN-10932)

Assembly Modeling

  • Improved stability when editing a constraint in the assembly environment. (INVGEN-7260)
  • Changes to geometry no longer break weldments. (INVGEN-7991)
  • Improved stability when placing components into an assembly. (INVGEN-11865)

Communication and Interoperability

  • Improved stability when exporting a drawing (.idw) file to DWF\DWFx. (INVGEN-9614)
  • Improved stability when updating and saving a part that had been updated in the 3D print environment. (INVGEN-9929)

Content Center

  • Improved stability when editing the size of a patterned Content Center part. (INVGEN-6214)
  • Improved stability when opening or closing multiple part files. (INVGEN-11056)

Drawing Manager

  • Improved stability when creating a sketch on top of a view in a drawing (.idw) file. (INVGEN-4619)

Part Modeling

  • Improved stability when working in sketch environment. (INVGEN-12094)

Sheet Metal

  • Improved stability when exporting a file with a flat pattern and clicking on the Layer tab in the Export to DXF dialog box. (INVGEN-11462)
  • Improved stability when making changes to a Sheet Metal hole sketch. (INVGEN-12048)

General

  • Improved stability when opening a presentation where a component fails to load. (INVGEN-10774)
  • Improved stability when editing an iPart when thread tables do not exist. (INVGEN-11599)
  • Improved stability when RMB on a view copied from another sheet with changed custom view orientation. (INVGEN-10987)
  • Improved stability when accessing DWG underlay via API. (INVGEN-11630)
  • Improved stability when constraining to DWG geometry. (INVGEN-10415)

General

  • Improved stability when deleting sheets in a drawing. (INVGEN-4795)
  • Improved stability when docking the browser. (INVGEN-8989)

General

  • Improved stability when creating new folder. (INVGEN-7515)

General

  • Improved stability when selecting or double-clicking a browser node. (INVGEN-4696)

General

  • Improved stability when switching panels with BrowserPane.OnActive event watching. (171265)
  • Improved stability when editing a Shrinkwrap feature with exclude or include components and Associative option is enabled. (171442)
  • Improved stability when switching the level of detail from the drop-down list in the Shrinkwrap dialog during editing shrinkwrap feature. (174303)
  • STEP associative import no longer causes Inventor to unexpectedly exit when you use a Vault project. (INVGEN-838)
  • Improved stability when exporting a file to the Revit family file format when the Revit Interoperability sub-component is not installed. (INVGEN-2721)
  • Improved stability when editing a ring feature. (INVGEN-1122)
  • Improved stability when measuring a partial chamfer. (INVGEN-723)
  • Improved stability when deletomg parts with a Dynamic Simulation run. (INVGEN-1279)
  • Improved stability in the Frame Analysis environment. (INVGEN-1275)
  • Improved stability updating the style in a sheet metal part file. (INVGEN-1254)

General

  • Improved stability when using Load Model during AnyCAD Reference. (INVGEN-3741)

General

  • Improved stability when using Undo after placing a Factory asset. (FDS-11287, 177681)
  • Improved stability when exiting Inventor and a HSM is loaded. (178718)
  • Improved stability in stress analysis environment with block error alert. (INVGEN-840)

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General Update Content

Several additional defects have been fixed with the following results:

 

Add-Ins - Tube and Pipe

  • Resolved an issue where Tube and Pipe hoses were not updating correctly in LOD mode. (INVGEN-37283)

Platform

  • Resolved naming issue in the File Open dialog box where the initial character of a selected file entry would be overwritten when subsequent characters were typed. (INVGEN-37792)

Translators

  • Resolved an issue where a section line does not export correctly to PDF. (INVGEN-37959)
  • Resolved an issue where the Crop page option in the PDF reader with an exported PDF file gave unexpected results. (INVGEN-37960)

Add-Ins - Content Center

  • Resolved issue with Search function in a remote Content Center library not finding existing family members. (INVGEN-33788)

Add-Ins - Tube and Pipe

  • Resolved issue where the Enter Angle context menu option wasn't available when changing the orientation of a Tube & Pipe fitting. (INVGEN-35351)

Drawings

  • Improved performance when viewing IDW file with DWG underlay. (INVGEN-34866)

Platform

  • Resolved an issue where there was a vulnerability PSIRT alert. (INVGEN-34603)

Add-Ins - Content Center

  • Resolved issue where Content Center category icons would go missing after installing Windows 10 update KB4517389. (INVGEN-34446)

Assemblies - Substitute

  • Resolved an issue where Hole Patching "All" option does not retain Representation View in Derived Assembly. (INVGEN-33865)

Assemblies - Weldments

  • Resolved an issue where after running a weldbead report the weldment assembly will no longer have a volume override in the physical properties dialog. (INVGEN-32925)

Drawings - Annotations - Balloon

  • Improved performance of call-out symbols (balloons) when drawing is opened with Defer Updates option or is disconnected with the model. (INVGEN-31671)

Drawings - Views

  • Improved consistency in Drawing View representation. (INVGEN-30575)

Assemblies - Constraint-Joint-Assemble

  • Resolved an issue where a Joint anchor point couldn't be selected when the Enable Prehighlight option is not selected. (INVGEN-31595)

Platform

  • Resolved an issue where Custom iPart features were not generated using libxl. (INVGEN-29777)

General

  • Improved performance with highlighting behavior when mousing over the corresponding entry in the Drawing Browser. (INVGEN-28166)

Parts - 3D Sketch

  • Resolved an issue where a Helical spiral disappears in 3D sketch when using small dimensions. (INVGEN-28824)

Parts - iFeature-iPart

  • Resolved an issue that caused an iFeature to be moved from its placement point after making changes in Parameter list. (INVGEN-30099)

Parts - Sheet Metal

  • Resolved issue where sheet metal where the Refold command was not folding all sections. (INVGEN-28838)

AddIn - iLogic

  • Resolved issue where rules that were created in Inventor 2017 or earlier and included the line: AddReference "System.Core.dll" would fail. (INVGEN-25780)

Parts - 2D Sketch

  • Resolved issue where sketch fillets would disappear after zooming in and out. (INVGEN-24944)

Parts - Derive

  • Resolved issue where Auto-scale sketch geometry on initial dimension caused scaling of derived sketch geometry. (INVGEN-25750)

Platform - Framework

  • Resolved issue where Design Assistant preview pane was not displaying the image. (INVGEN-26052)

Translators - DWG-DXF

  • Resolved issue where Tolerance of an alternate unit in architechural-fraction format did not translate correctly. (INVGEN-26172)

Translators - DWF

  • Improved stability and performance when exporting an assembly visualization file to DWF. (INVGEN-18943)

UI - Ribbon

  • Resolved issue where text did not align correctly in the Material and Appearance drop-down menu. (INVGEN-26258)

AddIn - Design Accelerator

  • Fixed a Bolted Connection Generator issue where the connection hasn't been patterned correctly for concentric placement. (INVGEN-22988)

AddIn - Tube and Pipe

  • Resolve issue where the holes in a tube created with Tube and Pipe weren't being computed in the correct order. (INVGEN-23192)

Drawing - Migration

  • Resolved issue where a reference component displays in R2014 but wasn't displaying in R2018. (INVGEN-22698)

Parts - Hole-Threads

  • There are no longer differences between the Tolerance values displayed in the Hole dialog box and the graphics window when retrieving dimensions in Inventor drawings. (INVGEN-21666)

Parts - Properties

  • The iProperty date value now shows the correct date. (INVGEN-23395)

Platform - API

  • There are no longer differences between the Tolerance values displayed in Limits and Fits in VBA and the graphics window. (INVGEN-22790)

Platform - UI

  • Resolved an issue where Style Editor drop-down list does not remain open for selection. (INVGEN-23053)

Translators - DWG

  • Resolved an issue where a part file, containing DXF, would not open. (INVGEN-24146)

AddIn - Content Center

  • Improved performance with Tube & Pipe Add-In while working with customer content. (INVGEN-18799)

AddIn - iLogic

  • Improved performance when switching between sheet sizes and orientations. (INVGEN-18955)

AddIn - Stress Analysis

  • Resolved issues in the Stress Analysis (Static Stress) environment when using the Rotation results. (INVGEN-21231)

Drawing - Annotations

  • Resolved issue with linear formatted balloons not maintaining alignment when the view was moved. (INVGEN-20412)

Parts - 2D Sketch

  • Improved performance when using the Measure command. (INVGEN-18568)

Platform - Framework

  • Thumbnails now display consistently in the Open dialog box. (INVGEN-21375)

Platform - Graphics

  • Shaded and break views now show correct color when exported to PDF. (INVGEN-21483)

AddIn - 3D PDF

  • Improved performance when exporting assembly to 3D PDF. (INVGEN-18506)

AddIn - iLogic

  • Improved stability on switching iLogic property. (INVGEN-18269)

AddIn - Stress Analysis

  • Improved stability for Stress Analysis solver. (INVGEN-18896)

AddIn - Tube and Pipe

  • The issue where appearance values were not updating correctly after making changes with the Authoring command is resolved. (INVGEN-16812)

Assemblies

  • Improved performance when opening an assembly. (INVGEN-20063)

Assemblies - Constraints

  • Improved stability when constraining assembly. (INVGEN-17999)

Assemblies - Weldments

  • New welds will now display correctly. (INVGEN-17458)

Drawings - Annotations

  • The issue with iProperties for parts list and balloons not showing not displaying corrector is resolved. (INVGEN-18341)
  • Creation Date iProperty will now match system date. (INVGEN-16990)

Drawings - Styles

  • Hatched region will now consistently retain fill. (INVGEN-16774)

Parts - 2D Sketch

  • Improved performance with constraint in sketch. (INVGEN-17512)

Parts - iFeature-iPart

  • Improved performance when generating iPart members. (INVGEN-19115)

Parts - Properties

  • Trailing comma no longer shows in German Inventor iProperty. (INVGEN-16846)

Platform - Framework

  • Improved stability when view Inventor files thumbnails in Windows explorer. (INVGEN-17647)

UI - Browser

  • After searching/filtering browser nodes, pressing SHIFT now correctly selects only the searched/filtered browser nodes, and not the all of the browser nodes. (INVGEN-16779)

AddIn - Content Center

  • Trailing zeros in filenames no longer cause duplication of standard parts when using the Refresh Standard Components command to update a part. (INVGEN-12410)
  • Resolved issue with search in Content Center libraries. (INVGEN-14032)
  • The Suppress and Unsuppress context menu options now work correctly when applied to Content Center parts. (INVGEN-16854)

AddIn - Tube and Pipe

  • Improved stability when changing the size of a Tube and Pipe coupling thread. (INVGEN-12759)

Assemblies - Constraints

  • Fixes an issue where visible sketch line endpoint cannot be selected when constraining. (INVGEN-16268)
  • Fixes an issue where constraint is lost after migration. (INVGEN-14190)

Assemblies - Place

  • Improved performance with Place Component command with assembly containing multiple extrusions. (INVGEN-14154)

Assemblies - iAssembly

  • Placing an iAssembly member from the Vault no longer incorrectly generates a new member. (INVGEN-15678)

Drawings - Sheets

  • Improved performance when toggling dimension layer in multi-sheet drawing on and off. (INVGEN-14911)

Drawings - Title Blocks

  • Adding date to title block no longer inserts erroneous dates in some fields. (INVGEN-16426)

Drawings - Views

  • Fixed an issue so Display Options are consistent when placing orthogonal views. (INVGEN-15787)
  • Fixes an issue where an Overlay View was stuck in Raster. (INVGEN-15786)

Parameters

  • Fixes and issue where embedded Excel parameters can't get deleted after copying to another file. (INVGEN-16855)

Parts - Derive

  • Improved performance when deriving a part with Mirror option activated. (INVGEN-14107)

Parts - iFeature-iPart

  • Fixes an issue where an extra value shows in the drop-down list when place iFeature. (INVGEN-15772)
  • Fixes an issue where iPart size is different when generating member when logged into Vault. (INVGEN-13486)

Platform - Graphics

  • Improved Section View performance. (INVGEN-14108)

Platform - Open-Save-Close

  • Non-responsive file dialog now responds when selecting Inventor DWG on network share. (INVGEN-15032)

Presentations

  • Improved performance when using the Tweak command in large assemblies. (INVGEN-14944)

Translators

  • Resolved an issue where STP color splits are not importing correctly. (INVGEN-15259)
  • A component in a sub-assembly pattern set to invisible no longer reverses to visible after exporting to a STEP file, and importing back into Inventor. (INVGEN-15286)
  • Improved performance when exporting drawing as AutoCAD dwg. (INVGEN-14988)
  • Fixes an issue where embedded Excel chart not exported correctly to DWF and PDF. (INVGEN-16296)

UI - Browser

  • Issue with multi-select in a browser is resolved: Select a component in the browser, press and hold SHIFT, and then select the end component. This correctly creates a batch selection. (INVGEN-15731)

API

  • Modifying the TemplateFileName from the OnFileInsertNewDialog Inventor API event now correctly creates the requested file type. (INVGEN-11783)
  • Setting the hidden _LibraryDocumentModifiable API property no longer allows documents in read-only (library) folders from being modified. See AKN article for more information. (INVGEN-13347)

Application Functionality

  • You can drag and drop single or multiple browser feature and component nodes into a different position in the browser. Hover over a collapsed feature or component node to expand the node. (INVGEN-7477)
  • Shortcuts, such as S for Sketch, M for Measure, etc., now function correctly. (INVGEN-8483)
  • Language specified in the Place from Content Center > Tools > Language Setting now maintains the language setting. (INVGEN-8506)
  • Constraints and origin browser nodes no longer disappear after reordering the assembly component. (INVGEN-11308)
  • Deployed Application Options settings are now distributed to all users. (INVGEN-11905)
  • Opening the marking menu from the context menu, and then hitting the F6 (Home) key no longer causes Inventor to freeze. (INVGEN-12127)
  • Browser width no longer resets to the default width when starting a new session of Inventor. Also, the browser width can be adjusted. (INVGEN-13199)
  • Browser width no longer reverts to default width in a new session of Inventor after resizing the browser in an earlier session. (INVGEN-13622)

Assembly Modeling

  • API now recognizes a cosmetic weld loop. (INVGEN-11996)
  • Improved stability when editing-in-place a Tube & Pipe sub-assembly to create flexible routes in Express Mode. (INVGEN-13654)

Communication and Interoperability

  • Editing an image in an image editor other than MS Paint now correctly displays the images in the exported AutoCAD file. (INVGEN-2392)
  • Improved performance when exporting a large assembly file to 3D PDF. (INVGEN-13309)

Content Center

  • A new Content Center cache mechanism improves the performance of opening Content Center libraries from a remote Vault server. (INVGEN-7142)

Design Accelerator

  • Bolted Connection countersink and counterbore hole diameters now maintain customized values. (INVGEN-13208)

Drawing Manager

  • Resolved issue where decimal digits displayed incorrectly in a title block. (INVGEN-7776)
  • A weld hatch now correctly displays the hatch material assigned to it. (INVGEN-9057)
  • You can now drag multiple drawing views from the active sheet to a different sheet. (INVGEN-9343)
  • Text added to the top of a sketch hatch pattern now displays correctly. (INVGEN-11301)
  • Units now display correctly in welding symbols. (INVGEN-11444)
  • Changing the Table layout direction in a Parts List no longer interferes with opening an item from the Parts List. (INVGEN-13198)

Frame Generator

  • Curved frames no longer generate redundant split features after Rebuild. (INVGEN-4634)
  • You can now change the frame member family of a reused frame member. (INVGEN-13664)

iLogic

  • The rule editor no longer hangs indefinitely in a part file with multiple work features. (INVGEN-10422)
  • Word wrap now displays correctly when printing iLogic code. (INVGEN-11580)
  • The browser node for Flush constraint now updates correctly when working with positional representations (except for Master) and setting values via API or iLogic. This means you can now override the flush constraint parameter. (INVGEN-13574)

Part Modeling

  • Improved stability when opening a part file with multiple mesh bodies. (INVGEN-9706)

Presentations

  • Improved stability when opening .idw and .ipn files. (INVGEN-10774)
  • Changes to tweaks in a sub-assembly in an assembly (.iam) file now update correctly in the corresponding presentation (.ipn) file. (INVGEN-11758)
  • Improved performance when using the Tweak command in large assemblies. (INVGEN-12138)

Sheet Metal

  • Cut normal operations no longer cause a sheet metal part to rotate slightly. (INVGEN-13626)

Simulations

  • Resolved issue with Assembly Stress settings in Japanese versions of Inventor. (INVGEN-10446)

Tutorials

  • Only tutorials containing at least one model file or one video file can be shared. (INVGEN-13006)

API

  • Improved stability when using Sketch.CopyContentsTo. (INVGEN-4491)

Application Functionality

  • Improved stability with Design Share. (INVGEN-9661)
  • Part browser scroll bar now displays after opening a subassembly when both the Model and Vault browsers are opened. (INVGEN-6822, INVGEN-4065)

Assembly Modeling

  • Unable to deactivate Center of Gravity visibility. (INVGEN-1206)
  • Memory no longer leaks when adding a component to an assembly. (INVGEN-10458)
  • Improved stability when working with the constraint dialog. (INVGEN-10760)
  • Performance improved when importing a dataset into Inventor. (INVGEN-10325)
  • The Assembly mass and density now calculate correctly. (INVGEN-9731)

Communication and Interoperability

  • Improved stability when publishing a 3D Annotation to DWF. (INVGEN-11174)

Drawing Manager

  • Text layout no longer unepectedly changes within a text box when moving a drawing view. (INVGEN-9554)
  • Solid hatch no longer unepectedly changes color in the Title Block. (INVGEN-10546)
  • The Margin setting now functions correctly. (INVGEN-11840)

Part Modeling

  • The input value in the mini toolbar for Fillet, Chamfer, Hole, Shell, or Revolve is now retained when Preview is activated. (INVGEN-10259)
  • A change in the source workplane height now propagates correctly to the derived part. (INVGEN-11602)

Translators

  • Invisibility attributes are no longer lost when exporting to STEP file. (INVGEN-10420)

Tube & Pipe

  • Bend radius command no longer goes missing after entering an incorrect value in the input field. (INVGEN-9314)

3D Annotations

  • Switching between Preparations, Welds and Machining folders in Weldment environment no longer removes existing annotations and the Annotations folder. (184563)
  • Improved stability when creating linear dimension 3DA in edit in context environment. (INVGEN-8975)

Application Functionality

  • The out-of-date icon no longer displays next to a virtual component when the component is not out of date. (INVGEN-1598)
  • Improved stability when viewing multiple sheets of an Inventor drawing in the online Autodesk Viewer. (INVGEN-2452)
  • Editing a Direct feature no longer causes the browser to move incorrectly to the top. (INVGEN-3933)
  • Ctrl+N/O now functions correctly when the iLogic add-in is loaded and the Show My Home on startup option is off. (INVGEN-4078)
  • Improved stability when clicking Un-Resolved filter. (INVGEN-4745)
  • Browser nodes now remain selected when clicking a blank area between two selected nodes in the browser would deselect the nodes.(INVGEN-4953)
  • Improved stability when using Pack and Go with unresolved files. (INVGEN-5275)
  • Improved stability when working with Inventor Studio and Microsoft Excel is not installed. (INVGEN-5352)
  • Unused user parameters can now be removed. (INVGEN-5698)
  • A command no longer is randomly executed when you quickly right-click on a browser node. (INVGEN-6733)
  • Options now import correctly using the command line option/import options. (INVGEN-8438)
  • Improved stability when using the Half Section View and creating a New window. (INVGEN-8550)
  • Offline help files no longer goes missing. (INVGEN-9322)
  • Help now launches correctly from the Inventor Connected Design panel. (INVGEN-9434)

Assembly Modeling

  • Fixed an issue where an assembly made from a multibody part would always be out of date. (INVGEN-1600)
  • Improved stability when working with constraints in an assembly sketch. (INVGEN-3442)
  • Improved stability when editing cells with column sort enabled in BOM dialog. (INVGEN-6179)
  • Visibility settings in Shrinkwrap dialog no longer change the current design view. (INVGEN-6240)
  • A unit string no longer is added after exporting Part List to Excel when the "Unit String" option is not checked. (INVGEN-6307)
  • Preserve Features function now works in Shrinkwrap Substitute. (INVGEN-6580)
  • "Stock Diameter" and "Cut Length" in part list are now exported as numbers in Excel table. (INVGEN-7324)
  • Position representation now imports incorrectly from migrated data. (INVGEN-8416)
  • Improved stability with view the Shrinkwrap preview when Break link option is on. (INVGEN-8484)
  • Improved the stability of weldments with modifications that cause welds to become sick. (INVGEN-8487)
  • Improved stability that could occur when deleting an assembly feature in weldment. (INVGEN-9798)

Communication and Interoperability

  • Corrected the font size when export IMGDT symbols as PDF. (INVGEN-1665)
  • Additional surface bodies no longer are generated when importing a Solid Edge weldment file into Inventor. (INVGEN-2500)
  • Invisible SolidEdge weldments no longer import as visible. (INVGEN-2665)
  • Improved stability when importing CATIA files. (INVGEN-3125)
  • Geometry no longer goes missing when exporting STEP file. (INVGEN-4663)
  • Improved stability when exporting a 3D PDF. Exporting the Master DV increases stability. (INVGEN-5451)(INVGEN-6488)
  • Geometry no longer goes missing when exporting an IDW to ACAD DWG. (INVGEN-5824)
  • Barcode font (Free 3 of 9 Extended) exported to PDF/DWF now displays correctly. (INVGEN-6408)
  • Excel tables embedded in a drawing now export to excel correctly. (INVGEN-6442)
  • Improved stability when exporting weldment sub-assemblies inserted into assembly to 3D PDF. (INVGEN-6568)
  • Improved stability when exporting STEP files. (INVGEN-6711)
  • Elements no longer go missing when exporting a part file to a STEP file. (INVGEN-7167)
  • Fusion references now update after the Fusion file type is changed. (INVGEN-8377)
  • Components now display correctly when exporting to 3D PDF. (INVGEN-9185)

Design Accelerator

  • Previously, when creating a bolted connection with through all connection type, the patterned holes are created without thread if holes are distributed on several components. This issue is now resolved, the patterned holes have thread as long as the components' termination planes are at the same level. (INVGEN-6839)
  • Design Accelerator features can now be created successfully when the Inventor installation path contains local characters. (INVGEN-9580)

Drawing Manager

  • Fixed a performance regression found in 2018.1 where changing a View Representation in a drawing was slower than in 2018 RTM. (INVGEN-2314)
  • Fixed an issue where a shaded drawing view would be incorrect if using Offline Only under Use Bitmap in the Drawing View dialog. (INVGEN-3327)
  • Fixed an issue in drawing view preview for long and thin parts. Changing the view orientation could cause Inventor to scale the preview incorrectly. (INVGEN-3579)
  • Fixed an issue where some projected drawing views would be migrated incorrectly from 2017 to 2018. (INVGEN-4523)
  • Fixed an issue in drawings with invisible parts appearing in the drawing view. In 2017.4 if a user placed a sub-assembly with parts that had the visibility turned off into an upper level assembly the drawing view of the assembly would show the invisible parts. This error has been fixed. (INVGEN-4542)
  • Corrected the part list with QTY column for substitution with Item QTY exported to Excel & Access. (INVGEN-4644)
  • Fixed an issue when Zoom All command shrinks drawing to 95% of its original size. (INVGEN-654)

Enhanced Visualization

  • Fixed an issue where opaque percentage has no effect at 67% and higher. This value is used for the inactive component appearance and transparent components. (INVGEN-1887)
  • Improved stability when working in the drawing environment, such as close drawing, copy and paste between drawing. (INVGEN-2033)
  • Assembly appearance now updates correctly when there's appearance change in library. (INVGEN-2959)
  • Improvement made to surface face missing in Drawing shaded views. (INVGEN-4959)
  • Improved stability that could occur when closing drawing document under Vault environment. (INVGEN-8591)

iLogic

  • Fixed the issue with the warning dialog popping up for all iLogic rules when Inspect rules for malicious code option in iLogic Security dialog is enabled. (INVGEN-6245)
  • Support now provided for parameter equations: acosh(), asinh() and atanh(). (INVGEN-6339)

Inventor Studio

  • Improved stability for adding local lights in Inventor Studio. (INVGEN-4763)
  • The environment for Inventor Studio local lighting style can now be selected on Windows 10 operating system. (INVGEN-6160)

Part Modeling

  • Improved stability when creating Direct Edit features. (INVGEN-4779)
  • Improved stability with the sweep command. (INVGEN-4792)
  • After generating files for iPart, you are no longer required to save members again when place in an assembly. (INVGEN-7158)
  • Cut Normal no longer corrupts the constraint. (INVGEN-9538)
  • Modifingly thickness values for Freeform Thicken now display correctly in previewed/computed result. (INVGEN-9609)

Sheet Metal

  • Improved stability with reorder feature. (INVGEN-4713)

Simulations

  • Improved stability in Dynamic Simulation. (INVGEN-688)

Sketch

  • Improved stability when copy/paste 3D sketch. (INVGEN-4860)
  • Improved stability when adding a dimension to fixed geometry. (INVGEN-8064)

Task Scheduler

  • Improved stability when publishing 3D PDF and purging a style in Task Scheduler. (INVGEN-8297)

Guided Tutorials

  • A thumbnail associated with a duplicated Inventor tutorial now displays correctly. (INVGEN-4827)
  • Improved stability when duplicating an Inventor tutorial. (INVGEN-4828)

Assembly Modeling

  • Representations now functioning properly. (178864, 173817)

Drawing Manager

  • Hole table content no longer changes the wrong part of the split table. (INVGEN-4757)
  • Content in the format column of an export of BOM now displays correctly. (INVGEN-6140, INVGEN-6723)

Part Modeling

  • Non-migrated Inventor files now correctly display the appearance in Shaded visual style. (INVGEN-6178)
  • Parts containing only sketch geometry now show a preview when placing a Base View. (INVGEN-7540)

Assembly Modeling

  • Save & Replace now work correctly. (INVGEN-6569)

General

  • Table Text is no longer erased when new text added. (INVGEN-6534)
  • A trail no longer displays when right-clicking and immediately moving the mouse from Marking Menu. (INVGEN-5243)

iLogic

  • iLogic security no longer incorrectly identifies rules as suspect. (INVGEN-6245, INVGEN-3597)

Part Modeling

  • Chamfer Dimensions are now accepted correctly. (INVGEN-6621, INVGEN-3570)

Translators

  • Selecting "Project as construction line" option no longer changes the export face output geometry to a yellow dashed line style. (INVGEN-6391)

API

  • Improved stability with ContourFlangeDefinition.Definition.ExtentDirection. (169998)
  • TemplateFilename and BOMStructure for FileMetadata allow you to specify the template and default BOM structure.

Application Functionality

  • Improved stability with scrolling the browser. (182439)
  • Studio browser now displays after pressing Ctrl+0. (176318)
  • After using the edit in place command, the browser scroll position no longer moves from the command that was just edited to the top of the browser. (172117)
  • The Application Options > General tab > Text appearance setting now correctly sets the font for the Model browser. (167010)
  • Browser panel no longer undocks from a single click when moving the mouse quickly. (183855)
  • Marking Menu no longer display trails when you right-click and immediately move the mouse. (184991)
  • iLogic rules created in one session of Inventor now display in the iLogic browser the next time you open the file. (INVGEN-3820)

Assembly Modeling

  • The Shrinkwrap dialog is no longer clipped. (180337)
  • Features are now maintained on a part which were initially removed and then selected from the excluded view. (173513)
  • Sub-assembly components set to invisible no longer continue to be visible. (INVGEN-3395)
  • Work geometries now highlight in the graphic window when hovering over the browser with Constraint dialog open. (181276)
  • Edit constraint value now behave correctly after undoing and redoing a constraint edit.(185914)

Communication and Interoperability

  • Improved stability when adding an instance of a DWG underlay. (INVGEN-848)
  • Improved stability when hovering over a DWG underlay geometry in the graphics window. (INVGEN-2313)
  • Improved stability when opening Catia 2017 V4 assembly files. (INVGEN-2360)

Design Accelerator

  • Belleville spring generator no longer disappears after turning off and turning on the Spring Set option. (168731)

Enhanced Visualization

  • The Surface analysis now displays correctly. (168814)
  • Multi-Sampling Anti-Aliasing now takes effect when the Quality mode setting is inherited from the previous Inventor install. (175322)
  • The cutout appearance no longer incorrectly reflects the section view body. (INVGEN-3087)

Part Modeling

  • Improved stability when loading Thread/Clearance data. 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. (I168545)

  • You may not be able to select a hole feature from the graphics window. (186626)
  • Selecting an edge to create Chamfer, and then clicking on a different position, may lead the partial chamfer to stop working. (NVGEN-709)
  • The chamfer preview turns into transparent after measure and then zoom. (INVGEN-725)
  • Measure tolerance can be set to 14 decimals. (INVGEN-3316)
  • Dimensions disappear due to auto-update after clicking Show Dimensions and edit sketch dimension. (INVGEN-3395)
  • Pattern dialog does not display when you double click a pattern occurrence to edit the feature. (186625)
  • Select Other does not display when Extrude-To/Between or Fillet etc. is active. (183705)

Simulation

  • Improved stability after clicking Run in the simulation player. (INVGEN-1279)
  • Improved stability when creating a Frame Analysis. (INVGEN-841)

API

  • Non-transacting client graphics now work as expected. (INVGEN-1938, INVGEN-1778, INVGEN-1602, INVGEN-1596)

Application Functionality

  • Factory & AutoCAD Electrical add-in browsers now drag smoothly when moving or resizing. (167035, 168806)

Assembly Modeling

  • Shortcut keys now working correctly. (178295, 181293)
  • BOM column sort now works in Model Data tab. (176969)
  • BOM Export - QTY now displays correct number in the Excel sheet for iAssembly part members. (180669)

Drawing Manager

  • The text in the Format text dialog now displays correctly when resizing the dialog. (INVGEN-1934)
  • Export Parts List to Excel no longer incorrectly converts Numeric columns to text format. (183277)

Part Modeling

  • iProperty values no longer show a rounding error. (176292)

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