February 27, 2015

Release Notes - Autodesk Inventor LT 2016 Readme
Autodesk, Inc.

In a continuing effort to provide high quality products, Autodesk has released Autodesk Inventor LT 2016. This readme highlights significant known issues and provides useful information for operating Inventor LT.

Contents




Notes About Installation and Uninstallation

Installation Requirements

Installation Instructions

General Notes

Direct Translators and Supported File Versions

Summary of Known Issues

Application Functionality

Communication and Interoperability

Enhanced Visualization

Inventor Studio

Legal Notice

General

• Following installation, open Inventor LT, right-click on the ribbon, and select the "Reset Ribbon" command so that the default ribbon layout changes are initially displayed. (Right click on the empty grey area to the right of the ribbon, and select Ribbon Appearance > Reset Ribbon.)
• Update your operating system before you install Autodesk Inventor LT 2016. Reboot your system after all updates are installed.
• If you are using Windows 7 on a 64-bit system, verify that you have the Microsoft fix for user mode callback exceptions KB976038. This fix ensures that Autodesk receives the correct data from Inventor LT error reports. For more information, and access to this fix and related Microsoft downloads, see Autodesk Technical Solution 15492718.
• Close all Autodesk applications before installation, maintenance, or uninstallation of the software.
• If you download the source files to a local folder with a name that contains non-English characters, ensure that the language in Regional Settings is consistent with the language name of the local folder.

Installation

• Autodesk Inventor LT 2016 installs .NET 4.5 SP1 on Windows 7 operating systems. If you have Autodesk Inventor LT 2013 installed on the same computer, it is essential that you install Update 1 for Inventor LT 2013 SP1.1 to correct issues with running Autodesk Inventor LT 2013 with .NET 4.5.
• Sometimes preinstalled .Net 4.5 SP1 has something wrong which may cause TrueView installation failure. Typically, you see error 1935 in the error dialog. To solve this, you can remove .Net 4.5 SP1 from Add/Remove panel and then reinstall Inventor LT.
• If the installer prevents you from installing one or more products, pause the cursor over the red "prohibited" circle beside the product name to get more information.
• A new application tool, Autodesk Application Manager, is installed with Inventor LT. After you install Inventor LT, the Autodesk Privacy Policy displays. Accept the terms and then close the dialog box. The application is used for detecting Autodesk Service Pack and Updates later.
• Autodesk Application Manager launches after deployment creation is finshed. Click Add Updates. In the Autodesk Privacy dialog box, accept the terms, and then close the dialog box. The Application Manager will launch for detecting Autodesk Service Pack and Updates later.
• Ensure the Inventor LT install path does not contain double-byte characters when installing Inventor LT on a single-byte operation system.
• Installation may be slow due to Microsoft security update KB2918614. If so, the installation will require 2-3 hours to complete. For more information, please refer to Microsoft support page.
• If you are using a distributed license server, set a new System Variable as follows. Create ADSKFLEX_LICENSE_FILE and set its value to "@servername1; @servername2;..."
• A Warning 1946 dialog, referring to the Task Scheduler, may be seen during installation. This is a benign Microsoft warning and can be safely ignored. Simply click OK on the dialog.
• When installing on Microsoft Windows 8 or 8.1, the installation of the Microsoft .NET 3.5 component will fail if the installation machine is bound to a domain where the group policy restrictions block this component. You can refer to the following Microsoft page to solve this problem: https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh506443.aspx

Uninstallation

• During uninstallation, if error 1910 displays, click OK to continue. Then delete the shortcut that remains on the desktop. This is a Microsoft issue. Additional issues can be viewed on the Microsoft tech page. There is no solution for these issues now.
• Autodesk Inventor LT 2016 includes a new Uninstall Tool that uninstalls the following components:
  • Autodesk Inventor LT 2016
  • Autodesk Material Library 2016
  • Autodesk Material Library Base Resolution Image Library 2016
  • Autodesk DWG TrueView 2016 - English
  • A360 Desktop 6.0.3.1100
  
  Installation includes the following components, but the Uninstall Tool does not uninstall them. You can uninstall them from the control panel:
  • Autodesk Application Manager
  • Autodesk Configurator 360 addin
  • Autodesk Design Review 2013

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• Autodesk Inventor LT 2016 supports Windows 7 32-bit Windows 7 64-bit, Windows 8 64-bit and Windows 8.1 64-bit.
• Verify that you have administrator privilege on your local machine before installing Autodesk Inventor LT 2016.
• The multimedia learning solutions require Flash player 10 (or higher). Download from get.adobe.com/flashplayer.
• Adobe Reader is required to read documentation provided in PDF format. Download from get.adobe.com/reader.
• Verify that you have 6 GB of free hard disk space or more for the self-extracted package.

Disk Requirements - Autodesk Inventor LT 2016




Includes Inventor LT disk requirements and Inventor LT prerequisites disk requirements.




System	Actual Disk Required
Windows 32 bit	Total - 4.5 GB	System drive (required) – 2.6 GB
Windows 64 bit	Total - 5.0 GB	System drive (required) – 2.8 GB

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Before you begin...

1. Install all Windows Updates that are pending on your machine and reboot:

Windows 7: Windows Update is in the Control Panel, which is accessible from the Start menu.

Windows 8: Windows Update is in the Control Panel, on the desktop Charms Bar, Settings menu.

It is sometimes necessary to perform Windows Update multiple times to completely update your operating system.

2. Verify that enough disk space is available on your machine to install Autodesk Inventor LT 2016.

To install Autodesk Inventor LT 2016:

For Electronic Fulfillment users only:

1. Download the appropriate Inventor LT 2016 installation file to a temporary location on your computer hard drive.
2. To access the installer, double-click the self-extracting executable file. Temporary extraction is to your temp folder. Operating System errors regarding very long path names can occur if this temporary location is nested too many levels deep.
3. We recommend that you use the default destination folder, which is "C:\Autodesk", as the self-extract destination folder name. After the file is extracted, the Inventor LT installer wizard launches automatically. If it does not launch, browse to the folder where all files were extracted and double-click setup.exe.
4. To set preferences, in the Install > Configure Installation dialog box, click the expandable arrow.
5. After configuration, begin the installation.
6. When the installation is done, click Finish.
7. A system reboot is sometimes required if you install a new Autodesk 360 with this installer.

For DVD users only:

1. Based on the bit type of your operating system, insert the appropriate DVD.
2. The Inventor LT installer wizard launches automatically. If it does not launch, open the DVD disc and double-click setup.exe to start the installation.
3. After configuration, confirm all your preferences are set as required before starting the installation.
4. When the installation is done, click Finish.
5. A system reboot is sometimes required if you install a new Autodesk 360 with this installer.

For more detailed instructions, please refer to the installation instructions provided with your delivered media containing Autodesk Inventor LT 2016.

To verify the installation was successful, start Inventor LT. On the Help menu, select About Autodesk Inventor LT. If the About box displays: Build: 138, Release: 2016, the installation was successful.

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• We recommend that you use a certified graphics card, and that your graphics card driver is up to date. See the Autodesk Inventor 2015 Release cards and drivers. The certified graphics cards and drivers are also applicable to Autodesk Inventor 2016.
• For laptop computers with both an NVidia GeForce GPU and an Intel integrated GPU, change graphics from discrete GPU to Intel HD integrated graphics to ensure that Inventor 2016 works correctly.
• Inventor uses TrueType and OpenType fonts. Other fonts are not supported.
• For the document window title, Autodesk Inventor 2016 follows the setting "Hide Extension for known file types" in Windows Explorer, like Microsoft Word or Excel.

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Translator	Import	Export
Alias	V10 or later
CATIA V4	All Revisions
CATIA V5	R6 - V5-6R2014	R10 - V5-6R2014
Creo Parametric	1.0; 2.0; 3.0
IGES	All Revisions	5.3
JT	7.0 – 10.0	7.0 – 10.0
NX	Unigraphics V13 - NX 9
Parasolid	Up to 27.0	9.0 - 27.0
Pro/ENGINEER	Up to Wildfire 5.0
Pro/ENGINEER Granite	Up to 9.0	1.0 - 9.0
Pro/ENGINEER Neutral	N/A	N/A
Rhino	Up to 5.0
SAT	Up to 7.0	7.0
SolidWorks	2001 Plus – 2015
STEP	AP214, AP203E2, AP242	AP214, AP203E2, AP242
STL	N/A	N/A
XGL/ZGL		N/A

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