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:

3D Navigation Tools

• Unexpected exit while panning.
• Occasional crash related to navigating in 3D drawing.

3D Modeling

• Occasional crash while selecting a face during a Presspull operation.
• Crash when opening multiple 3D drawings containing a large number of 3D objects.

Autodesk 360

• Crash in Japanese AutoCAD when logging into Autodesk 360 from the Options dialog box.
• Occasional crash when opening a drawing that contains xrefs, when logged in to Autodesk 360.

CUI (Customize User Interface)

• Occasional crash while loading a custom CUI file.
• Unhandled exception occurs while clicking the Customize button from Quick Properties palette on a computer running .NET 4.5.

Design Center

• Occasional crash while working with DesignCenter.

DGN Support

• Fatal error when attaching or importing certain DGN files.

Dimensions

• Crash after undoing the creation of a non-associative continued or non-associative baseline dimension.

Hatch

• Occasional crash while zooming during Hatchedit.

InfoCenter

• Crash when clicking any option from the Stay Connected button in the title bar when no drawings are open.

Inquiry

• Crash while calculating area of a polyline that contains at least one segment that has been reduced to zero length.

Plot

• Occasional crash while plotting to PDF.
• Crash while plotting to a PDF file and the PDF driver is not present.

Point Cloud

• Crash if the PCG file used to create a point cloud object does not exist.

Express Tools

• Occasional crash during a MOCORO (Move/Copy/Rotate) command.

Startup

• Crash due to corrupt graphics cache files on startup.
• Crash occurs while canceling a LISP routine that runs at program startup.

General

• Crash on undo/redo after adding 256 or more objects to a group.
• Crash while switching IME language for double-byte characters, when Dynmode is turned off.
• Crash on viewing thumbnail in AutoCAD 2012 when installed side-by-side with AutoCAD 2013.
• Occasional crash when exploding splines created by third-party applications.
• Crash when AutoCAD exits on computers running .NET 4.5.

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The following defects have been fixed:

3D Navigation Tools

• The Keep Scene Upright option in the 3DConnexion Settings dialog box cannot not be changed.

3D Modeling

• Issue with the centroid computation for 3D solids.

Action Recorder

• Action macros recorded in previous releases are not working correctly in AutoCAD 2013.

Autodesk 360

• Pressing F1 does not display Help for the ONLINESYNCSETTINGS dialog box.
• Drawing files with names containing language-specific characters do not get saved to Autodesk 360.
• User is not automatically logged in when launching Autodesk 360 from the AutoCAD ribbon.
• Sometimes the Share Drawing dialog box opens behind the main application window.

Customization Sync

• Customization Sync progress animation runs continuously.
• Customization Sync does not sync new custom commands in tool palettes.

DGN Support

• Export to DGN does not use the Global Origin specified in the seed file.
• The DGNIMPORTUNITCONVERSION system variable is missing in AutoCAD LT.

Display Drivers

• Integrated chipsets are unable to return available video memory correctly.
• When using COPYCLIP and PASTECLIP on a 64-bit operating system, you might see the object color change from the original color.

Dimensions

• Existing drawings lose Qleader settings when edited in AutoCAD 2013.
• Dimensions created using the Perpendicular object snap will shift when the drawing geometry is moved, copied, or otherwise modified.

External Reference (XREF)

• External reference drawings (XREFs) show as unresolved in AutoCAD 2013.

Hatch

• The Hatch Preview option is not available from the context menu when creating a hatch.

Field

• An object's angular property uses linear format instead of angular format in the Field dialog box.

MLeader

• Multileaders incorrectly display a dot at the content block's insertion point.
• If the Extend Leaders to Text option is turned on, the text in multileaders moves if the drawing is opened or edited in AutoCAD 2013.

Modify

• The SCALE command gets cancelled while dragging when small scale factor is acquired with object snap turned on.

PDF Export

• Plotting to a PDF file with a plot style causes wipeouts to appear black.

Performance

• Slow performance while running a large script.
• Slow performance while creating Layers quickly.

Plot

• Using Plot Preview turns the Command window back on.

Properties Palette

• When an object is selected, the tooltip is missing in the Properties Palette for the following languages: Traditional Chinese, Czech, Russian, and Hungarian.

Ribbon

• The Visibility drop-down control on the Block Editor Ribbon is not working properly when property preview is enabled.

Selection

• Pressing Shift with a window selection fails to remove multiple Drawing Views from the selection set on a layout.

Sheet Set Manager

• A high network utilization will result with the SMB V2 (Server Message Block) protocol while working with the Sheet Set Manager.

Visual Lisp

• Menucmd does not display the drop-down menu when the Command window is docked.

General

• Error on launching AutoCAD after the QuickCalc palette is anchored.
• INSBASE value is incorrect for a drawing created using -WBLOCK.