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Autodesk Answer day - (APAC Series)

Hello Inventor Users,

Did you know that Autodesk Answer Day is coming up on July 13th, 2017, as the first installment of the Autodesk Answer Days (Asia Pacific Series) ? This time we’ll be answering questions on Four of our most popular Products : AutoCAD, AutoCAD Mechanical, Inventor, Revit.

Head over to the Autodesk Answer Day homepage (Asia Pacific Series) for more information. We hope to see you there for this live Q&A online event hosted right here in the Autodesk Community!

Inventor 2014 SP1 crash on Start-up Windows 8.1 with Intel HD Graphics 4000

We have recently seen some CER Report about this issue.It happens mostly on laptops with dual graphics cards and using Intel HD Graphics 4000 (Driver Version 10.18.0010.3316).

When starting Inventor 2014 SP1 on Windows 8.1, you get the Autodesk Inventor Error Report Details and Inventor cannot start. Our developers are investigating this.

In the meantime, you can :

1. Disable the Intel Video Card in the Windows Device Manager.
2. Start Inventor.

 If you’re not satisifed with the performance, these additional steps could help in some cases :

1. Go to Inventor Application Options / Hardware Tab / Enable Compatibility Mode.
2. Enable the Video Card in the Windows Device Manager.
3. Start Inventor.

Some users experiencing this with AUTOCAD could solve it by right clicking on the ACAD Icon :

1. Run with Graphics Processor.
2. Integrated Card.

Pierre Masson.

Grips not available for some entities in AutoCAD Mechanical 2012

You have installed AutoCAD Mechanical 2012 and SketchBook Designer 2012 on your machine, for instance, from the Product Design Suite media.

In AutoCAD Mechanical you notice that, selecting some entities, the grips don’t display

Even if the option for display them is selected.

The problem is due to SketchBook Designer for AutoCAD 2012 AddOn.

Our development is working for fixing the problem.

In the meantime, in order to display correctly the grips, you need to start Mechanical without loading the SketchBook Designer AddOn.

For doing this, follow the procedure below.

• Close AutoCAD Mechanical 2012
• Browse under the folder C:\Program Files\Autodesk\ApplicationPlugins and locate the folder named SketchBook Designer.bundle.

• Rename the folder, for instance, as SketchBook Designer.bundle_unload

• Restart AutoCAD Mechanical 2012.

After that, the grips display correctly and the SketchBook Designer AddOn is unloaded.

If you want to load the AddOn again, restore the original folder name SketchBook Designer.bundle and restart Mechanical 2012.

Of course, the grips display problem will be back as well.

Ale

Drawing Conversion in TRUE VIEW 2010

You opened a drawing file in version (AutoCAD 2010) or language product say (thai,chinese,korean) of AutoCAD or AutoCAD Mechanical 2010 that is different from the product that was used to create the file, and you noticed that certain objects were displayed incorrectly.

Changing the code page of a drawing will change the way the text is interpreted and displayed.

From 2010, this functionality has been added to DWG True View 2010.

You can do the following steps to make your text displayed properly while loading the drawing on different languages of the product.

Download DWG True View 2010 from the link given below,

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/mform?siteID=123112&id=9078813

Launch DWG True View 2010

Click the DWG Convert icon in the Quick Access toolbar.

In the DWG Convert Console -> Click Files Tree tab -> Add your drawing.

Select the correct Conversion setup.

In the Figure, I have converted a DWG created in 2004 Chinese Version to load them properly in AutoCAD Mechanical 2010.

Press Convert to change the drawing.

Translated in Chinese Language

如果你用简体中文AutoCAD2004绘制的dwg图纸，然后用繁体中文AutoCAD打开这个文件，其中的文字标注将出现乱码。类似的问题也会出现在泰文，韩文，日文等双字节的软件中。

解决这个问题，您需要修改相应的代码页。这是因为AutoCAD2004是非Unicode的软件，AutoCAD2007已经支持Unicode环境了。

这个代码页转换的功能已经添加到了DWG True View2010 中，这样您就可以在不同语言的AutoCAD打开这些文件，而不再出现文字乱码的问题。

具体操作步骤如下：

从下面的链接下载DWG True View2010。

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/mform?siteID=123112&id=9078813

开启DWG True View2010

在快速按钮区里点取DWG Convert按钮

在DWG Convert的对话框中，点取File Tree添加文件。

选取正确的转换设置。

在附图Figure，是将2004简体中文的DWG转换为AutoCAD Mechanical2010版本。

然后点取转换，这个DWG文件的代码页就转换了。在AutoCAD2010里打开这个文件，将不再出现乱码问题。