Autodesk has released Service Pack 1 for AutoCAD 2017 and AutoCAD LT 2017 and offers some bug and crash fixes to these products as well as vertical products.

It is available currently for download and installation via the Autodesk Desktop App that is installed with your AutoCAD 2017 and LT 2017 product or vertical product.

It is also available for download and installation from your Autodesk Account. To download from your account, log in at https://manage.autodesk.com, choose your AutoCAD product in the “All Products and Services” section and click the “Updates and Add-Ons” link.

 

 

NOTE: If you are using a vertical product such as Civil 3D or AutoCAD Architecture, you will still need to download and install this service pack. Please read and follow the instructions of the installation readme file prior to installing this Service Pack.

Issues Resolved by This Service Pack

Per the readme file:

As a result of the detailed information that we received from customers who used the Customer Error Reporting Utility, we were able to identify and fix the problems listed below:

Blocks

  • There were occasional crashes when inserting some blocks a second time.

Graphics

  • There were occasional crashes when zooming out of a drawing following the 3D orbit command.

Purge

  • There were occasional crashes when purging DXF drawing files.

Web and Cloud

  • There were occasional crashes when modifying the Online Options settings and signing in to Autodesk A360 from InfoCenter.

General

  • There were occasional crashes when launching AutoCAD in Windows 10.
  • There were occasional crashes when inputting the system time in long string format, and then using the DIM command.
  • There were occasional crashes when switching layouts.
  • There were occasional crashes when performing a 3D rotate in drawings containing a point cloud.
  • There were occasional crashes when plotting to PDF using AccoreConsole.exe.
  • There were occasional crashes when performing an Undo after detaching a reference using the External References palette.
  • There were occasional crashes when PNG images were specified in a CUI resource file.

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The following other defects have been fixed:

Display

  • Xrefs on a frozen viewport layer would still be plotted.
  • AutoCAD in Citrix might not default to the primary display adapter.

Open and Save

  • Opening a drawing file using an Excel hyperlink was repositioning the AutoCAD application window.

PDF Import

  • Importing a PDF Underlay that was attached with relative path could fail.

Xref

  • The Xref status incorrectly displays the “Needs reloading” message when the dataset is opened from a UNC path to a shared folder.

General

  • When opening drawings created with AutoCAD Architecture, AutoCAD might crash if the drawing was saved again.
  • Plotting with certain visual styles might produce incorrect results.
  • Migrating custom settings might fail.

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