March 3, 2017

Release Notes - Autodesk Inventor 2018 Readme
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Contents




Notes about Installation and Uninstallation

Installation Requirements

Installation Instructions

General Notes

Direct Translators and Supported File Versions

Summary of Known Issues

API

Application Functionality

Assembly Modeling

Connected Design on A360

Drawing Manager

Guided Tutorials

Part Modeling

Performance

Legal Notice

General

• If you are using Windows 7 on a 64-bit system, please verify that you have the Microsoft fix for user mode callback exceptions KB976038. This fix ensures that Autodesk receives the correct data from Inventor error reports. For more information, and access to this fix and related Microsoft downloads, see Autodesk Technical Solution 15492718.
• Update your operating system before you install Autodesk Inventor 2018. Reboot your system after all security updates, etc., are installed.
• 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

• All Autodesk 2018 Beta products that use Autodesk Licensing Service 5.1.1 (shows as 5.1 in control panel) must be fully removed using Autodesk uninstall tool (not control panel) prior to installing Autodesk applications that use subsequent versions of Autodesk Licensing Service. Examples of applications that must be fully removed before installing:
1. Autodesk Inventor 2018 Beta
2. Autodesk AutoCAD 2018 Beta
3. Autodesk Recap (version 3.1.2.5 or version 4.0.0.5)
• Autodesk Inventor 2018 installs .NET 4.6 to your operating system.
• If the installer prevents you from installing one or more products, pause the cursor over the red "prohibited" circle beside the product name for more information.
• Make sure the Inventor install path does not contain double-byte characters when installing Inventor on a single-byte operating system.
• Installation is sometimes 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.
• A Warning 1946 dialog may be seen during installation. This is a benign Microsoft warning and can be safely ignored. Simply click OK on the dialog.
• When you try to extract Autodesk SFX files on Windows 7 without an internet connection, a message displays indicating the publisher cannot be verified. To resolve this issue, see Installation Files Not Extracting from SFX Download.

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 2018 includes a Uninstall Tool that uninstalls the following components:
  • Autodesk Inventor Professional 2018
  • Autodesk ReCap
  • Autodesk Inventor Content Center Libraries 2018 (Desktop Content)
  • Autodesk Inventor Electrical Catalog Browser 2018
  • Autodesk Revit Interoperability for Inventor 2018
  • Autodesk Design Review
  • Autodesk Material Library 2018
  • Autodesk Material Library Base Resolution Image Library 2018
  • Autodesk Material Library Low Resolution Image Library 2018
  • Autodesk DWG TrueView 2018 - English
  • A360 Desktop
  • Autodesk Desktop Connect Service
  • Autodesk Guided Tutorial Plugin
  • Inventor Connected Design
  
  Installation includes the following components, but the Uninstall Tool does not uninstall them. You can uninstall them from the control panel:
  • Autodesk Desktop App
  • FARO LS 1.1.600.6(64-bit)
  • Autodesk Configurator 360 addin
  • Eco Materials Adviser for Autodesk Inventor 2018 (64-bit)

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• Autodesk Inventor 2018 supports Windows 7 SP1 64-bit, Windows 8.1 64-bit and Windows 10 64-bit .
• Verify that you have administrator privileges on your local machine before installing Autodesk Inventor 2018.
• 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 18 GB of free hard disk space or more for the self-extracted package.

Disk Requirements - Autodesk Inventor 2018




Includes Inventor disk requirements and Inventor prerequisites disk requirements.




System	Actual Disk Required
Windows 64 bit	Total - 18.5 GB	System drive (required) – 14.7 GB




Desktop Content Library	Actual Disk Required
ANSI	1,406.9 MB
DIN	433.6 MB
GOST	927.6 MB
ISO	275.5 MB
JIS & GB	781.9 MB
Feature	3.2 MB
Other	1,827.9 MB
Parker	49.4 MB
Routed Systems	6.4 MB
Sheet Metal	45.3 MB
Mold Metric	58.3 MB
IDF standard Content	0.79 MB

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Before you begin...

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

Windows 7 SP1 64-bit: Windows Update is in the Control Panel, which is accessible from the Start menu.

Windows 8.1 64-bit: Windows Update is in the Control Panel, on the desktop Charms Bar, Settings menu.

Windows10 64-bit: Windows Update is in the Setting menu, which is accessible from the Start menu.

Note: It may be 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 2018.

To install Autodesk Inventor 2018:

For Electronic Fulfillment users only:

1. Download the appropriate Inventor 2018 installation files to a temporary location on your computer hard drive.
2. To access the installer, double-click the self-extracting executable file, which will extract to your temp folder. If this temporary location is nested too many levels deep, your operating system may display an error indicating the path to the EXE is too long.
3. We recommend that you use the default destination folder, which is "C:\Autodesk", as the self-extracting destination folder name. After the file is extracted, the Inventor install 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.

For DVD users only:

1. The Inventor installer wizard launches automatically after you insert the DVD. If it does not launch, open the DVD disc and double-click setup.exe to start the installation.
2. After configuration, confirm all your preferences are set as required before starting the installation.
3. When the installation is done, click Finish.
4. A system reboot is sometimes required.

For more detailed instructions, please refer to the installation instructions provided with your delivered media containing Autodesk Inventor 2018.

To verify the installation was successful, start Inventor. On the Help menu, select About Autodesk Inventor. If the About box displays: Build: 112, Release: 2018, 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 2018 Release cards and drivers.
• 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 2018 works correctly.
• Inventor uses TrueType and OpenType fonts. Other fonts are not supported.
• For the document window title, Autodesk Inventor 2018 follows the setting "Hide Extension for known file types" in Windows Explorer, such as Microsoft Word or Excel.
• When working with assemblies with more than 25000 components, we recommend that you use a 64-bit machine with 20 GB or more of physical RAM.

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Translator	Import	Export
Alias	V10 or later
CATIA V4	All Revisions
CATIA V5	R6 - V5-6R2016	R10 - V5-6R2016
Creo Parametric	1.0; 2.0; 3.0
DWF/DWFx	6.0 – 7.5	7.5
DWG	All Revisions	R2000; R2004; R2007; R2010; R2013; R2017
IDF	2.0; 3.0
IFC		IFC 2x3
IGES	All Revisions	5.3
JT	7.0 – 10.2	7.0 – 10.2
NX	Unigraphics V13 - NX 11
OBJ	N/A	N/A
Parasolid	Up to 29.0	9.0 - 29.0
PDF		1.6
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
RFA		R2017
Rhino	Up to 5.0
RVT	Up to R2017
SAT	Up to 7.0	7.0
SolidWorks	2001 Plus – 2017
STEP	AP214, AP203E2, AP242	AP214, AP203E2, AP242
STL	N/A	N/A
SMT	Up to ASM223	ASM223
XGL/ZGL		N/A

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