Wednesday, September 7, 2011

AutoCAD 2012 Service Pack 1 and the return of the Array dialog

AutoCAD 2012 SP1 as well as AutoCAD LT 2012 SP1 are available. Note that this is also the return of Service Packs. AutoCAD 2011 only had updates.

AutoCAD 2012 Service Pack 1 downloads: DL17692441
When installed _VERNUM is F.107.0.0 (UNICODE)

AutoCAD LT 2012 Service Pack 1 downloads: DL17692311

The Service Pack brings back the Array dialog functionality by introducing a new ARRAYCLASSIC command. It also introduces the option to restore legacy Snap behavior by controlling it through the new SNAPGRIDLEGACY system variable:

ARRAYCLASSIC
Creates copies of objects in a regularly spaced rectangular or polar array.

SNAPGRIDLEGACY
1 – Always snap the cursor to the grid
0 – Only snap the cursor to the grid when AutoCAD prompts to specify a point

The following defects have been fixed:

3D Navigation Tools

  • 3DConnexion settings are not being remembered after changes are made.
  • 3Dconnexion device will not cancel the current command.

3D Surface Modeling

  • With dynamic input off dragging the height handle of an extruded line will not always stretch by the value and direction of the drag.
  • AutoCAD may become unstable when rebuilding a helix to a spline where the selection was not dropped.

Annotation Scaling

  • AutoCAD may become unstable while attempting to load a DCL file with errors from a long file name.
  • Tooltip does not appear when Additional tool tip string is set in “AcEdInputPointMonitor::monitorInput”.
  • API fix: This fix will respect the custom color, line pattern and line weight when selecting the entities including external reference.

Autoloader

  • Autoloader fails when SeriesMax parameter set to linked.
  • Autoloader loads partial CUI but may not display it when the bundle is removed and reinstalled.
  • When platform="AutoCAD*", bundles will be load on ACAD and Vertical.
  • Using Autoloader to add custom CUI files that contain WPF Custom Controls will not work as it needs a registry entry.

Blocks

  • AutoCAD may become unstable while snapping to blocks containing OLE objects.
  • Editing attribute text in EATTEDIT dialog sometimes results in a fatal error.
  • When a drawing is saved from within the Block Editor, the entire content of the drawing is sometimes lost and replaced with the content of the block being edited.
  • Sometimes there is a delay while trying to modify blocks containing a Block Table Parameter.
  • AutoCAD becomes unstable when entering the block editor, attempting to edit a dynamic block which has geometry on a locked layer.
  • Sometimes the BEDIT toolbar does not get hidden after exiting block editor.

Digitizer

  • You may receive an error at the command line after enabling a WinTab driver and the tablet will not function.

Display Drivers

  • Integrated chipsets are unable to return available video memory correctly.

DWF

  • Arcs and circles viewed on edge appear as a single line. This changes 2D DWF/DWFx drivers to plot them as a single line, rather than a polyline.

DWG

  • AutoCAD may become unstable when using the "UNDO" command on drawings that are 2 gigabyte or larger.

Dimensions

  • Ordinate dimensions in paper space are not correctly reflecting the distance from paper space UCS.

ETRANSMIT

  • AutoCAD may become unstable while closing a drawing after etransmitting it using the COM API.

Exchange

  • Autodesk Exchange may display a non-subscription link after updating to a subscription serial number.
  • User login IDs that contained special characters like “@” could not log in to online services.

Express Tools

  • AutoCAD may become unstable when using the NCOPY command.
  • Overkill may delete polylines incorrectly when working with reversed polylines.
  • Overkill may not work well when there is an arc segment in between 2 line segments.

Hatch

  • AutoCAD may become unstable when using the “separate hatch” option.

Image

  • Multi frame QuickBird Tiff image files may not display expected colors.
  • When trying to insert an Adobe Photoshop PSD file it was not visible in the file filter list.
  • AutoCAD may become unstable when inserting an AdobePhotoshop PSD file.

Layer

  • Changing layer colors of layers beginning with non-alphanumeric characters may result in other layers changing colors.
  • The layer state Ribbon control does not honor the apply properties viewport overrides.

MLeader

  • AutoCAD may become unstable when drawings with multileaders are saved to older versions.

Modify

  • AutoCAD may become unstable when editing polylines.
  • NCOPY may fail to copy objects contained in blocks that were inserted into paper space.

Mtext

  • Mtext Paragraph spacing value cannot be edited once a value is set.
  • True Type (TTF) font text or mtext is blurry, bold, and distorted when the viewport is non-orthogonal because XY values are not exactly zero.

OLE (Object Linking & Embedding)

  • AutoCAD may become unstable when copying from an Excel file back to AutoCAD.

Open/Save

  • Cannot open drawing files from file Explorer if the drawing contains a "'%'" in the file name.

Other

  • AutoCAD may stop responding when saving and or opening drawings with Symantec Norton 360 Version 5 installed on your system.
  • You will be unable to open drawings created using a non-Autodesk product when using the Open() API.
  • AutoCAD may become unstable when selecting the grid in some drawings.
  • AutoCAD may become unstable after editing MTEXT in a viewport and when exiting the program.

Parametric Drawing

  • Area is wrong when coincident constraints are applied to entities.

PDF Export

  • AutoCAD may become unstable when using PDF Export on files that contain MS Mincho font.

PDF Underlay

  • AutoCAD may become unstable when unloading a PDF underlay.
  • AutoCAD may become unstable when an undefined PDF underlay is unloaded.
  • AutoCAD may become unstable when plotting drawings that include “MS Mincho” to PDF.

Performance

  • Drawings containing many layers may become slower with each pan and zoom operation when the ribbon is active.
  • Performance improvement in 64bit COM APIs.

Plot

  • You may experience data loss when sending multiple plots to Xerox printers.
  • AutoCAD may become unstable when selecting plot preview.

Purge

  • AutoCAD may become unstable when using the purge command.

Ribbon

  • The linetype preview may be missing from the linetype dropdown in Ribbon Properties panel when opening drawings from the Application Menu.
  • Ribbon Combo Box text eight may be empty when using "TEXTEDIT" on multiple dimensions.

Snaps

  • With Snap enabled, the cursor does not move to snap intervals.
  • Turning SNAPGRIDLEGACY ON will restore the old Snap behavior of the cursor when no command is active.
  • Restores legacy SNAP behavior during certain LISP-based selection commands.

Sheet Set Manager

  • Sheet List Table Context menu in Sheet Set Manager (SSM) is missing some menu items.

Tables

  • Cell style is grayed out when picking inside any cell.
  • The data link menu is grayed out after inserting a data link in a table.

UI Enhancements

  • AutoCAD may become unstable attempting to edit a polyline vertices Pedit tangent.
  • AutoCAD may become unstable in group selection where the group contains a box.
  • When objects are on locked layers you are able to nudge them.
  • AutoCAD may become unstable when interacting with the ViewCube while grip editing.
  • When right click menus are disabled, selection or crossing right click actions are incorrect.

Visual Basic for Application

  • AcFocusCtrl cannot be inserted in a VBA form.

Visual Lisp

  • Attribute dialog will be displayed when inserting a block with attributes based on the setvar ATTDIA value.

Visual Styles

  • AutoCAD may become unstable when using osnap in a 2d hide view.

External Reference

  • AutoCAD may become unstable when interacting between the open dialog and the XREF manager.

Zoom/Pan

  • AutoCAD may become unstable when zooming over the XY indicator in Layout.

AutoCAD 2012 Service Pack 1 downloads: DL17692441 

AutoCAD LT 2012 Service Pack 1 downloads: DL17692311

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