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Autodesk Factory Design Suite 2014 Service Pack 1

Autodesk Factory Design Suite 2014 Service Pack 1 is now available.

Please, read the Readme file for the Installation Instructions and the Summary of Issues Fixed by this Service Pack.

Autodesk Factory Design Suite + Standalone + Factory Design Utilities

Just an FYI, the licensing behavior when you are activating your standalone copy of an Autodesk Suite is: Activate one of the products in your Suite and it will auto-activate all the products in the Suite.

If you have a Standalone version of the Autodesk Factory Design Suite and you activate one of the products, i.e AutoCAD, it should activate all the other products in that Suite except for Autodesk® Factory Design Utilities.

You will need to manually request an activation code for that product [Autodesk® Factory Design Utilities] using the serial number and product key from the Factory Design Suite. 

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Inventor 2011 and 2012 - Unexpectedly exits after updating to Windows 8.1

Please find below the links for downloading the fixes for this problem.

Inventor 2011 – http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=22541232&linkID=9242019

Inventor 2012 – http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=22506876&linkID=9242019

Note: These Hotfixes prevent Inventor from crashing only.  These releases are not supported for Windows 8.1.

The same fix has been provided for Inventor 2013 in the Update 3 for Inventor 2013 Service Pack 2 and for Inventor 2014 in the Service Pack 1

Updates to Eco Materials Adviser for Inventor

Users of Eco Materials Adviser for Inventor 2014 can download and run versions in French, German, Korean, Japanese or Simplified Chinese

Users of Eco Materials Adviser for Inventor 2012 or 2013 can update to the new software version, providing the latest functionality and performance as already enjoyed by 2014 users

You can find all the information for this transition in the link below.

http://inventor.grantadesign.com/en/resources/index.asp

Note here in particular the Technical Advice Bulletin downloadable from the middle of the page describing the improvements to port-handling.

The more detailed installation instructions are here:

http://inventor.grantadesign.com/en/resources/updates/latest.asp

Update 3 for Inventor 2013 Service Pack 2

Update 3 for Inventor 2013 Service Pack 2 is now available.
 
Please, read the Readme file for the Installation Instructions and the Summary of Issues Fixed by this Update.

Inventor 2013/2014 + Avast Anti-Virus Software + Red X PLACEHOLDER

We have been getting a high frequency of Inventor software failing to install due the usage of Avast Anti-Virus software. The error is typically the following:

RED X PLACEHOLDER

The only solution is uninstall the the Avast software before installing Inventor.

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Installation-Licensing/Inventor-2013-installation-problem/td-p/4565699

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/Installation-Licensing/Installation-Problem-Inventor-2014/m-p/4577535/highlight/false#M72071

Thanks to Jeffry Asbury and Byron Morales for alerting us of the problem.

Reference

http://upandready.typepad.com/up_and_ready/2012/03/autodesk-simulation-cfd-2013-avast-internet-security-and-files-in-the-virus-chest.html

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Update 1 for Inventor 2014 SP1

Update 1 for Inventor 2014 SP1 is now available.
 
Please, read the Readme file for the Installation Instructions and the Summary of Issues Fixed by this Update.