AutoCAD 2008 Service Pack 1 Officially Released Today

In a continuing effort to improve customer experience and product quality we are working on a Service Pack update for AutoCAD 2008. The live update notifications in the AutoCAD 2008 Communication Center and Product Support product updates downloads should be available in the next few hours.

We wish to sincerely thank the many customer beta testers that provided feedback during the 4 beta cycles of this Service Pack. Their feedback and CER reports are critical to shipping the best product quality we can.

 

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Who Should Install the Service Pack?

• AutoCAD 2008 32-bit Product and 64-bit Product
• AutoCAD LT 2008
• AutoCAD Revit^® Architecture Suite 2008¹ 32-bit Product and 64-bit Product
• AutoCAD Revit^® Structure Suite 2008¹ 32-bit Product and 64-bit Product

¹ Apply the patch only if the installation includes AutoCAD 2008.

I saw this funny image (via Karin Meier) the other day and it is truly priceless.

It's not a bug, it's a feature.

This service pack can be used with the following operating systems:

• Microsoft^® Windows^® 2000 (SP4)
• Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition (SP2)
• Microsoft Windows XP Professional (SP2)
• Microsoft Windows Vista^™ Enterprise
• Microsoft Windows Vista Business
• Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate
• Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium
• Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic
• Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition
• Microsoft Windows Vista Business 64-bit
• Microsoft Windows Vista Enterprise 64-bit
• Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate 64-bit
• Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium 64-bit
• Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic 64-bit

Primary Issues Resolved by the Service Pack

Problems Reported with the Customer Error Reporting Utility
As a result of detailed information from customers who used the Customer Error Reporting Utility, a number of problems were identified and fixed in the following areas:

• .NET API
• 2D Display
• 3D Display
• 3D Navigation
• Annotation Scaling
• Attributes
• Blocks
• Copy and Paste
• Customer Involvement Program
• Dashboard
• Design Center
• Dimensions
• DWF Creation
• eTransmit
• External References
• File Navigation
• Hatches
• Hide
• Images
• InfoCenter
• Layers
• Layouts
• Lights
• Materials
• Multileaders
• Multiline Text
• Object Editing
• Object Linking and Embedding (OLE)
• Open, Save, and Close
• Options
• OSNAP
• Plot
• Properties Palette
• Publish
• Random Crashes
• Recover
• Render
• Selection
• Sheet Set Manager
• Standards
• Tables
• Text
• Tool Palettes
• Tooltips
• Trim
• Undo and Redo
• Viewports
• Visual Lisp
• General Updates

Other changes include the following:

• .NET API
  • ObjectID.Open no longer causes a crash
  • Removing a handler from Database.ObjectAppended then firing the event now generates an error message
• 64-Bit
  • vl-arx-import now functions for namespaces separate from VLX
  • i-Drop is operating correctly
• Annotation Scaling
  • When dragging and dropping a named view from the style sheet manager to the host drawing, the annotation scaling features work properly
  • Custom scales which exist in the nested xrefs are no longer duplicated in the host drawing
  • Blocks in the Tool Palettes created from the DesignCenter annotative drawings are now annotative
• Attributes
  • Multiline attributes no longer shift positions every time drawings are saved and opened
  • The Value field for an attribute definition may now be modified in the Property Palette
• Blocks
  • The Y-scale factor of inserted blocks is now scaled accurately
• Dashboards
  • The dashboard panel configuration is now maintained throughout different workspaces and user sessions
• Data Extraction
  • All dynamic block properties are now correctly extracted
• Dimensions
  • Radial extension arcs may now be disabled, restoring the ability to dimension small radii
  • The In-Place dimension text editor size is now correct
  • Round-off dimension values now appear correctly
  • Dimension breaks no longer cause AutoCAD to hang
• Display
  • Linetypes now always display properly after zooming operations
• DWG
  • Copy/paste now works in the drawings saved as 2000 and then resaved in AutoCAD 2004, AutoCAD 2005, or AutoCAD 2006
• E-Transmit
  • AutoCAD 2000 and Release 14 file formats are preserved while using ETRANSMIT with the "Keep existing drawing file formats" setting enabled
• Fields
  • Drawing name field now always plots correctly
• Hatch
  • The BHATCH command boundary detection mechanism has been improved
• Image
  • Image frames are no longer plotted or displayed when IMAGEFRAME is set to 0
• Layouts
  • The ampersand character ("&") may now be entered on the Layout tab
• Multileader
  • The location of attributes in multileader block is no longer off-center
  • Multileader text no longer unexpectedly rotates
  • Multileader attributes are no longer off-center in a rotated UCS
• MText
  • Text tabs are now saved correctly to the older DWG formats
  • Certain Japanese characters are displayed correctly
  • Portuguese (Iberian and Brazilian) dictionaries now have accented capital letters
• Open/Save
  • If multiple drawings are opened in Explorer, only a single instance of AutoCAD containing those drawings will launch
• OSnap
  • Object snaps now work correctly in blocks
• PDF Export
  • Raster images now plot correctly to PDF
• Performance Tuner
  • If there are no new drivers, the "New Driver" bubble does not appear
• Plot
  • Plotting performance of rotated MrSID images is improved
• Tables
  • Data linked cell formatting is now correct
  • Excel formatting is kept when the paste special (PASTESPEC) command is used
• Tool Palette
  • Icons are no longer truncated
• Visual Styles
  • Erroneous lines and display artifacts no longer show up after multiple zooming operations
• XREF
  • Drawings with long reference paths are referenced properly

Known Issues With This Service Pack

Problem: After applying Service Pack 1, all dashboard control panels are displayed regardless of the selected workspace.
Workaround: Make the desired workspace current.

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Files Patched by This Service Pack
Depending on the product and the type of installation, this service pack updates the following files:

acad.exe
acadlt.exe
AcCamera.arx
AcDashboard.arx
AcDataLink.arx
acdb17.dll
AcdbMgd.dll
acDcFrame.arx
AcDgnIO.dbx
AcDim.arx
AcDx.dll
AcEAttedit.arx
acETransmit.dll
acgs.dll
AcGsConfig.arx
acismobj17.dbx
AcLauncher.exe
AcLayer.dll
AcMgdInternal.dll
acopm.arx
AcOpmExt.arx
AcPEXCtl.arx
AcProject17.dll
AcPublish.arx
AcSceneCOM.dll
AcSceneUI.arx
AcSmNav.arx
AcSmSheetList.arx
AcStd.arx
AcStd.arx
AcTable.arx
AcTcTools.arx
AcVBA.arx
AcViewMgr.arx
AcVMTools.arx
AcVpPlace.arx
AcXrefService.arx
AdComFolderWatch.dll
AdImaging.dll
AdInfoCenter.dll
AdIntImgServices.dll
adui17.dll
anav.dll
aoem.exe
ASMAHL120A.dll
axdb.dll
Battman.arx
direct3d9.hdi
dswhip.dll
gdiplot9.hdi
MC3.dll
Oce9.hdi
oletohdi9.dll
pdfplot9.hdi
plcfmgr.dll
prntprog.dll
proxyID.dll
senddmp.exe
ShareMFC.dll
styleeng.dll
szb9.hdi
vl.arx
vlreac.dll
whohas.arx
WSCommCntr1.exe
xesgdi9.hdi