Up and Ready: Deployment

Power shell to list all Autodesk products installed on a windows machine

Power shell to list all Autodesk products installed on a windows machine
get-wmiobject Win32_Product |where {$_.Vendor -like "*Autodesk*"} |Format-Table IdentifyingNumber, Name, LocalPackage, Vendor -Wrap

Comments (6)

Avecto Defendpoint and AutoCAD clipboard

One of the customer reported an AutoCAD error message „copy to clipboard failed“ when using CTRL+C to copy features through all versions (2012 to 2016) and verticals (ACA, Map)

The issue was that a few users in a pilot group got Avecto Defendpoint client installed to monitor their daily tasks in order to personalize windows user rights.

As soon as Avecto Defendpoint client was installed AutoCAD threw the error message for CTRL+C.

The context menu function „copy selection“ worked as expected and could be used as workaround.

Using CTRL+C in other applications, e.g. MS Office (Word, Excel, Outlook) is working fine without issues.

Here is the fix for this issue.

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Avecto-Defendpoint-conflicts-with-AutoCAD.html

Comments (0)

Unable to install Map 3D 2016 Service Pack 1 through SCCM.

Following workaround might not be feasible in all instances ,especially if you are pushing the updates through SCCM or other software delivery/deployment tools.

http://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad-map-3d/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Unable-to-install-Map-2016-Service-Pack-1.html

Reason for the error is one of the .MSP file which included in the .exe file is Hotfix 3 for AutoCAD 2016. This can’t be installed on AutoCAD 2016 Sp1.

If you extract .MSP files from the exe with the following command line, you will find 2 .MSP files.

Map3D2016_x64_Sp1.exe /e Map3D2016_x64_Sp1.MSP

Only second file needs to be applied to Map 3D 2016.

Msiexec /p Map3D2016_x64_Sp1.MSP /q

Note:/q is important for the above command line, else you might get following error.

Similar workaround might be required for Civil 3D 2016 Service pack 1 as well.

Comments (0)

Civil 3D 2016 deployment through SCCM and missing HHApps, Subassemeblies

Some functionality within Civil 3D 2016 might be missing after deploying the software through or other deployment tools.

Following script could help to fix this issue for all the users logging into the machine after deploying the software as System account.

Please use this script to deploy through SCCM instead of the single setup.exe command line.

REM Take Backup of the existing xml file
IF EXIST C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\appIndex.xml (REN "C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\appIndex.xml" "appIndex.ORG")

REM Install software
Start /w .\Img\Setup.exe /q /w /I .\Img\c3d2016x64.ini /language en-us

REM Delete newly created XML file
Del /q "C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\appIndex.xml"

REM copy backup xml file
IF EXIST C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\appIndex.ORG (REN "C:\ProgramData\Autodesk\appIndex.ORG" "appIndex.xml")

REM Copy Missing C3D_Profiles folder from the deployment image

xcopy .\Img\Content\en\C3D_Profiles "C:\Program Files\Autodesk\AutoCAD 2016\C3D\en-US\ContentPacks\en\C3D_Profiles\"

Comments (0)

Including Newest Autodesk Application Manager During Install

With the release of version 5 of Autodesk Application Manager a few weeks ago, we've started getting questions about including the new version when you either install or create a deployment for an Autodesk product. The version that gets installed by default is version 4, and you then need to download version 5 from within Autodesk Application Manager. That's not a huge deal if you're only installing the software on one computer, but it can be a gigantic headache if you're deploying to hundreds of computers.

This article shows how to include version 5 during the install / deployment creation process:

http://knowledge.autodesk.com/article/How-to-include-the-newest-version-of-Autodesk-Application-Manager-with-an-install-or-deployment

Comments (2)

How to create an AutoCAD for MAC deployment image

Anyone that tries to deploy AutoCAD for MAC in a MAC environment may notice that there is no deployment option in the installer for AutoCAD for MAC.

In order to create an AutoCAD for MAC deployment image on a MAC system, you would need to capture the installation sequence of AutoCAD for MAC, using the Composer provided by Apple.

See the workflow below.

Capture an install of Autocad 2015 as normal, removing non-relevant files from the Composer capture.

Now, in the captured directory structure within: /Library/Preferences/ create the following directories:

.com.flexnetlicensing
FLEXnet Publisher

Note: These two directories should be owned by root and have 777 permissions.

The installer is then built as a .dmg (not .pkg) and deployed.

A BIG thank you to Amos Deane from University of the Arts in London for sharing this tip with the community.

Comments (0)

How to deploy Fusion 360 on multiple machines

TIP!

We in the support seen cases were end customers asked us about deploying Fusion 360 on multiple systems.

First of all it is important to understand that Fusion 360 installer is streamed to your system and does not provide an deployment option.

However, some Suite Products that include the Fusion 360 installer do and can be used as a workaround. - For instance Product Design Suite Ultimate

See a quick demo of the workflow here.

http://autode.sk/1GR72cv

Note: After the roll out, additional steps are required to install Fusion 360 on the system, as this method destributes only the webinstaller to the clients.

Comments (0)

Command Line installation on Mac for 2016 products

Please note the following articles and installation docs for setting up a command line installation for Maya and Mudbox for Mac. Please keep an eye out for the syntax!

Maya 2015/Mudbox 2015

http://upandready.typepad.com/up_and_ready/2014/10/installing-maya-2015-on-the-mac-via-command-line.html

http://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/maya/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/How-do-I-install-Maya-2015-or-newer-from-a-Terminal-command-line-on-Mac-OS-X.html

http://help.autodesk.com/view/INSTALL_LICENSE/2015/ENU/?guid=GUID-10885D2B-D900-4DD6-BB14-B82920C2D294

Maya 2016

http://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/maya/troubleshooting/caas/CloudHelp/cloudhelp/2016/ENU/Installation-Maya/files/GUID-10885D2B-D900-4DD6-BB14-B82920C2D294-htm.html

Mudbox 2016

http://knowledge.autodesk.com/search-result/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/How-do-I-install-Mudbox-2016-on-Mac-silently-via-command-line-through-the-Terminal.html

The syntax is noted below:

Maya 2015 syntax is: --license_type=<kNetwork or kStandalone>
Mudbox 2015 syntax is: --license_type=<kNetwork or kStandalone>

Maya 2015 syntax is: --license_type=<kNetwork or kStandalone>
Mudbox 2016 syntax is: --license_type=<Network or Standalone>

Comments (0)