New and Updated Solutions! Inventor, Advance Steel, Alias, Revit and more!

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This week we're giving you a double dose of New and Updated Solutions! We were out last week at Autodesk University so today we're posting TWO WEEKS worth of Autodesk Solutions. Hope you didn't think we forgot about you!

December Week One:

General

Custom user marking menus do not always call the release command with ALT modifier

In the 2014 suite there was a Check for update button in the suite starter window. It is not in 2015

RC SLAB PROVIDED REINFORCEMENT - what determines the orientation of a slab on a drawing

Unique tags for Piping Speciality Items

Installation & Licensing

How to borrow a network license to use Autodesk products offsite

I lost my old machine. How do I install on a new one?
License server stops and needs manual restart to run

3ds Max

3ds Max - Configuration path and scene file save errors
3ds Max - Missing ENU folder
3ds Max Design - Particle Source glitches

Advance Steel

Advance Steel: How to set Advance objects with a specific material

Alias

Exporting a jt file from Alias gives an error

How to align the CV structure of two surfaces in Alias

AutoCAD

AutoCAD does not retain one or more of its settings upon relaunch
AutoCAD Not Responding when switching tabs

Contour lines do nor show up in AutoCAD

Error: “AutoCAD Component Stopped Working” when printing help menu

How to create text along a curve
How to enable or disable the Customer Involvement Program in AutoCAD

Saving a file uses up available memory and freezes AutoCAD

Shift and left click to select multiple grips does not work when a raster image is in the drawing

AutoCAD Architecture

Walls don’t move specified distance using center grip in AutoCAD Architecture or AutoCAD MEP

AutoCAD Civil 3D

Applying Design Criteria in Civil 3D

Cannot assign user defined coordinate system

Create profile from file error “Input file has invalid geometry”

German DACH Extension 2014 and 2015: Installation for more users on the same computer

MAPIINSERT do not regconize world file if path including file name is longer than 128 characters

Reference Manger crashes when adding drawings

AutoCAD Map 3D

Adding Trimble GPS points to AutoCAD Map 3D

MAPCLEAN: Delete Duplicates does not detect duplicate if object has a different start vertex

AutoCAD MEP

Missing Piping Routing Preferences in ribbon when switching to piping workspace in AutoCAD MEP

Some conduit fittings do not display in AutoCAD MEP

Walls don’t move specified distance using center grip in AutoCAD Architecture or AutoCAD MEP

AutoCAD P&ID

AutoCAD P&ID and Plant 3D: Tag in Use warning message when assigning a unique sline Tag

Which components in AutoCAD P&ID need a unique tag

AutoCAD Plant 3D

AutoCAD P&ID and Plant 3D: Tag in Use warning message when assigning a unique sline Tag

Different issues with high coordinates in AutoCAD Plant 3D

Empty attribute fields in drawing ttile block display a dot

How to configure the wished actuator block for a specific valve
How to edit existing or create new nozzles in AutoCAD Plant 3D

How to setup a project on a network setup across multiple users in AutoCAD Plant 3D

AutoCAD Raster Design

AutoCAD Raster Design 2015 will re-configure upon launch

AutoCAD Utility Design

AutoCAD Utility Design 2015 network license does not cascade

Camduct

Camduct 2013 Licensing error

Fusion 360

Error: “Cannot open local files” in Fusion 360

Error: “Your Autodesk ID … is not registered with any hubs on Autodesk 360” (Fusion 360)

Fusion 360 interface does not work correctly after you disconnect from secondary monitor
Fusion 360 performance slows after inserting mesh

How to submit a product enhancement idea for Autodesk Fusion 360

Where to get support for Fusion 360

Infraworks

InfraWorks: Why is my model Slow? - Rendering Performance Guidelines

Inventor

Activating Tube & Pipe after opening an assembly hangs Inventor 2014

Autoresize does not work fine after place part from Content Center

BIM Exchange Export Building Components no longer provides an option for RFA files

Content Center Login “Object reference not set to an instance of an object”

Equation curve in a sketch should be smooth, appears choppy or segmented

Error: “The current Design View Representation is locked. Changes against it will not be saved.”

Incorrect position of emboss when wrapped to a cut revolved face
Information is missing from DWF that have been automatically created
Inventor 2015 Exiting to CER - Printing to HP 1050C plotter

Inventor center of gravity will not turn off in an assembly

Inventor is freezing when opened from Vault

Measure command is producing a Delta Z when none or 0 is expected

Not all weld caterpillers are being displayed

Projected geometry is not in the correct position on cylindrical faces

Sketch primitives get oriented wrongly once exported in PDF

Some views get repositioned in some drawings (idw)
Structural Shape Authoring is missing Help on certain parameters

Tolerance Calculator gives wrong tolerances

When the Inventor 2015 Factory Add-in is loaded some Inventor shortcut keys do not function

Maya

How to match legacy render settings of 2012 to 2014

Opening a Legacy scene file in a newer version of Maya

Paint Nonlinear Weights Tool is not displaying multiple deformers

Washed out clouds when adding them to Maya’s Physical Sun and Sky

mental ray

mental ray Standalone licensing

Mudbox

Radial Symmetry in Autodesk Mudbox

Nastran In-CAD

How to modify the default parameters for all new Nastran InCAD analyses

How to probe nodal results in Nastran InCAD

Product Design Suite

Deployment Creation Issues - Product Design Suite

ReCap

The Autodesk Recap update will not install

Revit

Point cloud are highlighting when you mouse over them

Revit displays fatal error message opening a project
Revit Server Administrator: Autosync Locks, error log, or not available message
REVIT- view is not regenerated after changes to design option via view template
Revit: Air terminals are in incorrect location or missing when exported to .SAT
Revit: Floor Slab with Metal Decking profile does not display correctly in some section views
Revit: Pipe does not report offsets correctly

Solar Panel Specialty Equipment considered as a skylight in Heating and Cooling Loads Report

Robot Structural Analysis

Error: “Lack of load cases in definition of code combinations …” (Robot Structural)

Robot Structural Analysis: How to define a Buckling analysis for several load cases / combinations

Seismic or spectral analysis: Only combinations of Newmark with a + sign for X direction are generat...

Warning: “The load has not been distributed correctly …” (Robot Structural)

Showcase

Creating Showcase behaviors from Inventor constraints

Showcase crashes with a Customer Error Report when opening or importing a file

Simulation CFD 360

After starting an analysis in Simulation CFD 360 the software becomes Non-Responsive at ‘creating an...

Simulation CFD

After starting an analysis in Simulation CFD the software becomes Non-Responsive at ‘creating analys...

How to change legend font size in Simulation CFD?

How to write a Simulation CFD Python script that I could leverage to implement a PID controller?

Is the rotational speed for an internal fan required for Simulation CFD?

Simulation CFD 2013 crashes at model load

What are some known limitation with using the Simulation CFD to Showcase export process?

While using a surface resistance it looks like the flow wasn’t going through the center in Simulatio...

Simulation Composite Analysis

Does Simulation Composite Analysis 2015.1 require a new license

How to capture matrix voids with Simulation Composite Analysis

Which installation do I choose for Simulation Composite Analysis 2015

Simulation Mechanical

Can’t find mass participation for Modal analysis with load stiffening in Simulation Mechanical

Could not assign / edit material to a part when analysis type is Steady-state Heat Transfer.

Error ‘AISC beam is not supported for Design Study’ in Simulation Mechanical
Error when mapping transient thermal results to a MES in Simulation Mechanical 2015 R1
Error: “The material you have selected is incomplete. Please review the items which are flagged with...

How to export deformed shape to 3rd party CAD format in Simulation Mechanical

How to modify the part number of surfaces in Simulation Mechanical
How to resolve meshing issues in Autodesk Simulation Mechanical

Operating system requirements for Simulation Mechanical 2014

Suggestions for selecting a PC for Simulation Mechanical

Simulation Moldflow Insight

Error 702400: Error encountered in circuit with inlet node [number] in Moldflow Insight

Error: 305180 Injection location nodes connected to a moving surface for Injection Compression analy...
Error: 305182 Beam elements connected to a moving surface in Moldflow Insight 2015

How to get Injection Compression result plot Compression surface property

Understanding when shrinkage and warpage calculations in Simulation Moldflow

Vault

Cannot check in DWG files into Autodesk Vault 2014

How to exclude links from a search

Non-engineering released documents displayed in Thin Client

Unable to Transfer Ownership between sites with Vault

Vault install error: AutodeskVault user already exists
Versions and revisions displayed in the Vault carousel preview

Vehicle Tracking

Are there US Garbage Trucks in the Vehicle Tracking Libraries

What data is required to model a rigid vehicle in Autodesk Vehicle Tracking

VRED

Compositing looks different than the exported screenshot in VRED

How to get a camera from VRED to Maya

December Week Two:

General

How to switch language of the online help

Installation and Licensing

Setup crashes on Sony VGN-Z750D Laptops

3ds Max

3ds Max - Graphite Ribbon is displaying triplicate icons
3dsMax does not recognize custom appearances form Inventor

Cannot open 3ds Max 2015 Help

Creating a balloon with 3ds Max MassFX

System requirements for Autodesk 3ds Max releases

Advance Steel

Advance Steel 2015.1 - A suitable AutoCAD version cannot be found
Advance Steel: Holes missing in detail drawings
Advance Steel: How to add new drawing process

Alias

Where is the Trim Convert tool in Alias

AutoCAD

1. fdc cannot be found when launching AutoCAD

AutoCAD crashes when saving drawings to previous versions.

AutoCAD Mapping change to one direction

Crash when opening a drawing in AutoCAD

Crosshair does not display after launching AutoCAD

Design Center crashes AutoCAD 2015

How to get the object enabler for Bentley AutoPlant software for use in AutoCAD

Layout tabs shift incorrectly in AutoCAD

Model and Layout tab location in AutoCAD 2015 products

Old Map to define the Geographic Location for the sun location is missing

PC3 Plotterconfiguration list is not in alphabetical order

Texture alignment is not retained when object is copied or moved

AutoCAD for Mac

Dynamic pointer visibility not working on AutoCAD for the MAC 2015

AutoCAD Architecture

Align UCS to Face option not working on AEC objects

AutoCAD Civil 3D

AecRibbonUiApi hangs on startup

DEM surfaces create at wrong coordinates

Select all reports multiple objects that are invisible in drawing area

Topo drawing file locks up other drawings when xref’d

AutoCAD Map 3D

Infrastructure Administrator Form Designer error: The column name ‘ ’ is missing or invalid

AutoCAD Mechanical

Missing attributes while exporting Gost idw as AutoCAD Mechanical dwg

AutoCAD P&ID

AutoCAD P&ID: Cannot substitute symbols

AutoCAD Plant 3D

Plant 3D: Unable to select a nozzle to modify

Report Creator - How to set up a filter in the report

BIM 360 Field

Supported attachment file types for BIM 360 Field Daily Updates

Design Review

Lines become very thick when opening DWG drawings in Design Review

Infrastructure Map Server

WMS not working after updating WMSUser password

Infraworks

InfraWorks: Revit model imports incorrectly

Inventor

Additional Custom material library in subfolder after Pack & Go

After starting Inventor process uses 100% of a core and some buttons are not working

Auto numbering is not executed immediately in hole table

Cannot choose a hose fitting in tube and pipe styles after deleting the partnumber

Description Text changes are applied to all type when table is split

Entire geometry in under-constraint color after Copy & Paste in Sketch

Material library not loaded correctly after switching project

Performance issue when edit the thread feature of an iPart with only Office 2013 applied

Pressing Enter after changing Thread Depth value generates an error

Reference geometry is not visible in drawing view with Background updates

Saving not possible after opening assembly from drawing

Section line thickness behavior under a certain value of the layer thickness

Ungrouped flyout commands cannot persist on QAT

Maya

Bevel virtual slider does not work in any working unit except centimeters

Unable to move or interactively place Projection Node in Maya LT

Unable to scale UV Maps proportionately

Which image file formats can be stored in Maya

Navisworks

How to get measurements to show in the Scene View in Navisworks

Revit Error: No suitable geometry found exporting 3D view with section box to Navisworks 2015

Nastran

Error: “Fatal Error S1121 Invalid License for Analysis” when using MCT failure analysis for composit...

Unable to access Nastran Editor with Nastran InCAD license

Revit

How to install add-ins in the hosted version of Revit.

Revit crashes when accessing the material editor

Revit Error: No suitable geometry found exporting 3D view with section box to Navisworks 2015

Revit shared coordinate from geolocation/GPS to UTM coordinate
Revit: Unable to tag slope for an element in a linked file
Ribbon missing after working in Autodesk Revit_ for a period of time

Simulation CFD

Batch remove solving in Simulation CFD is not working, only one analysis is returning

How to calculate wall losses so that a flow coefficient is just for a valve body in Simulation CFD

How to reorient the coordinate system in Simulation CFD to capture correct material properties?

Pump exit profile looked incorrect for a cross flow blower in Simulation CFD

Simulation Composite Analysis

How to save without optimization in Material Manager when using Simulation Composite Analysis

Simulation Composite Design

How to understand deformation modes in Simulation Composite Design

Simulation Mechanical

Beam elements not displaying results with 3D visualization turned on in Simulation Mechanical

Bolted wizard produces incorrect section modulus in Simulation Mechanical

How to get Cauchy stress and strain for brick elements in Simulation Mechanical

Simulation Moldflow Insight

Fiber inlet condition does not work as expected

Strange re-melt zone result for Injection-Compression and Overmolding

Simulation Robot Structural Analysis

Wind on towers function not available

Sketchbook

How to sync Sketchbook files on the iCloud with the iPad to the Mac

VRED

How to create a menu in VRED that is on top of the viewport

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