Many of our customers often wait to start using the newest releases of Autodesk and other software products until a service pack has been released. If you happen to work for one of these companies it’s time to start pushing for your new installs. Autodesk has been releasing the service packs for a variety of their programs. What is a service pack:
A service pack (in short SP) is a collection of updates, fixes and/or enhancements to a software program delivered in the form of a single installable package. Many companies, such as Autodesk, typically release a service pack when the number of individual patches to a given program reaches a certain (arbitrary) limit. Installing a service pack is easier and less error-prone than installing a high number of patches individually, even more so when updating multiple computers over a network.
Service packs are usually numbered, and thus shortly referred to as SP1, SP2, SP3 etc. They may also bring, besides bug fixes, entirely new features.
With the new release of AutoCAD 2012 some great new functionailty has been added to the feature set. The one we are looking at today is Associative Arrays. The three top reasons to using this new functionailty is:
Establish and maintain a set of relationships between arrayed objects, like windows on a building or trusses on a bridge.
Array objects along a specified path, rather than being restricted to rectangular or polar options.
This video is a basic introduction for the new user looking at 3ds Max for the first time. We’ll cover the main parts of the user interface and techniques for navigating the viewports. Prepared and narrated by Chad Miller.
Did you ever want a better way of knowing which types and versions of files Inventor can read and write? Check out this table to better understand the capabilities of the Autodesk Inventor translators.
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