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Installing .NET 3.5 on Windows 8 with Autodesk Products

In some instances, when installing Autodesk software, you may get a .NET 3.5 error on Windows 8 as noted in the log file:

2013/9/9:10:22:30 todd TODD PageOpen FullProgressDialog
2013/9/9:10:22:30 todd TODD Installing .NET Framework Runtime 3.5 SP1: "E:\3rdParty\NET\35SP1\wcu\dotNetFramework\Install35Net.exe" 2013/9/9:10:24:20 todd TODD Install .NET Framework Runtime 3.5 SP1 Failed Installation aborted, Result=1603

When installing the software, the wizard will attempt to install .NET 3.5 and during the progress of that component, it will cause the entire Autodesk Product or Suite to fail.

To resolve this issue, please follow the steps below:

1. Search for the the Control Panel > Programs and Features > Turn Windows Features on or off > Check on .NET Framework 3.5 (Includes 2.0 and 3.0).

2. In some instances, during the update, you may get this Error code: 0x800F0906.  Close the error dialog box.

3.  You will need to have your Windows 8 media ready and follow the steps noted in this Microsoft Knowledge Base Article:

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh506443.aspx

Thanks to David Dembkoski and Todd St. John for confirming that this solution worked.

Epilogue

Please check the Comments section to see the note about the Group Policy workaround.

How do I load Raster Design 2014 in AutoCAD 2014 in Product Design Suite?

Just a note that AutoCAD 2014 in the Product Design Suite is actually AutoCAD Mechanical 2014 in a the Vanilla Profile.  The splash screen of AutoCAD 2014 comes up which makes things a bit confusing.  If you hover over AutoCAD 2014, you can see the bubble help confirm the launch attributes.

You can check out this blog post for further details as well.

http://upandready.typepad.com/up_and_ready/2013/07/where-is-autocad-2014-in-the-product-design-suite-2014.html

If you have installed all the products in your Product Design Suite, when you launch AutoCAD Mechanical 2014, Raster Design 2014 will show up in a tab in that workspace.  When you load AutoCAD 2014, the Raster Design tab will not show up.

To get Raster Design 2014 to load in the AutoCAD 2014, please follow the instructions below:

1.  Launch AutoCAD 2014 from the AutoCAD Mechanical 2014 Start Menu folder.

2.  In the Command Prompt, type Options.  

Then go to File > Support File Search Path and add the following 2 folders:

C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD Raster Design 2014

C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD Raster Design 2014\Help

Once entered, Apply and Close.  All the text should be lower case once completed.

3.  In the Command Prompt in AutoCAD, you need to load Raster Design, type:  CUILOAD

Select Browse to C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD Raster Design 2014\UserDataCache\Support and load the AecCo.cuix file.

4.  Now launch AutoCAD 2014 and AutoCAD 2014 and Raster Design tab should show up in both programs.

Revit 2014 crash at startup

You have your Autodesk products i.e. Revit 2013, working properly except Revit 2014, basically when starting Revit 2014, it just crashes. 

To figure out the problem, we used Procmon to find the problematic file "PackageContents.xml" located in the folder "C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\ApplicationPlugins\sofistik bimtools.bundle". It was not granted with proper access for the logged in user account.

Procmon Workflow:  Revit-2014-denied

We added the corresponding USER account with Full permission to the file which solved the issue.

Thank you to Hashim Mundol for helping us on the process.

Reference:

http://upandready.typepad.com/up_and_ready/2011/10/general-systems-the-basics-of-using-process-monitor.html