As a result of detailed information from customers who used the Customer Error Reporting Utility, a number of problems were identified and fixed. Updates have been made in the following commands and features:

Service Pack 1

• 3D Gizmos & Editing
• .NET API
• Array
• ARX-ACUI
• ARX-Other
• DBX-ACDB
• DBX-Other
• Image
• Inquiry
• Materials
• Open/Save
• Other
• PDF Underlay
• Plot
• Property Palette
• Ribbon
• Tool Palettes
• Visual Lisp
• Visual Styles
• Zoom/Pan

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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.

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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