Important: new behavior for Inventor service packs

With the release of Autodesk Inventor 2012 Service Pack 2, Autodesk has changed the installation requirements and behavior for Inventor service packs going forward: Service Pack 1 is no longer required to be installed as a prerequisite for the installation of Service Pack 2.

Service Pack 2 includes all fixes included in Service Pack 1. If you are updating from the release version of Inventor 2012, you only need to install Service Pack 2 to obtain the latest updates.

Uninstalling Inventor 2012 Service Pack 2 uninstalls Service Pack 2 only and maintains Service Pack 1 and/or any Hotfixes you may have installed previously.

This is the new standard for Inventor Service Pack behavior and will hold true for any subsequent service pack releases for 2012 and 2013.

Bob

Comments

[MaxU77]

You are referencing SP2 for AI2012 but there is no such at http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/index?siteID=123112&id=2334435&linkID=9242019#section22
Please comment.

[Bob Van der Donck]

Don't despair :-)
R2012 Sp2 will be made available on the download site in the next couple of days. My blog post was just a heads-up that it is coming and that it will have a different installation behavior.
Bob

[eduardo ruiz]

you know if is solved the proble with ussers with no admin rights to start design accelerator or content center?. thanks

[Bob Van der Donck]

There was no behavior change in that area between 2012 and 2013 but the big change was in 2012 as you can read in this technical article

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=18138720&linkID=16915701

Bob

[Jon Schroeder]

hay this is Jon i am a big user of inventor but i just bought a mac and know can not use this program and i do not want to patience my computer to windows. so i was wondering why you have not made one for the mac operation system.

[Bob]

Hi Jon,

Like you stated, for the moment we don't offer Inventor as a native app for the MAc platform.
But you could use Inventor on Parallels (virtualization soft) or consider installing a dual boot system on your Mac with Bootcamp.
For more details , see http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=13578672&linkID=9242018

Bob