Since AutoCAD 2016 was released there have been some hotfixes with the latest just a few days ago.

Autodesk® AutoCAD® 2016 VLX Hotfix

This Hotfix addresses a compatibility problem with signed VLX files containing DCL dialogs.

Autodesk® AutoCAD® 2016 Hotfix 1

The following issues are addressed by this Hotfix:
- A display issue with the design feed palette, Geographic Location dialog, Help window browser, and Start page for Windows 8.1 operating systems at high DPI settings;
- A performance issue with the Publish command;
- A plotting issue where text formatted right-to-left plots upside down.

Autodesk® AutoCAD® 2016 Hotfix 2

The following issues are addressed by this Hotfix:
- Miscellaneous crash issues in DWG™ files containing attached images;
- Miscellaneous issues with DGN Export functionality.

There are also these hotfixes:

Localization Hotfix: AutoCAD 2016 Learn Tab (Brazilian Portuguese Only)

Localization Hotfix: AutoCAD 2016 OSNAP Options (Polish Only)

Localization Hotfix: AutoCAD 2016 Attach Navisworks Files (French Only)

If you’re looking for other downloads here are AutoCAD 2016 Language Packs, AutoCAD Civil 3D 2016 Object enabler and Open Light 2016 Object Enabler (32-bit and 64-bit) as well as if you want to Download & Install AutoCAD 2016 Product Help.

For up to date access to downloads visit this Autodesk page.

If you want any small or large app created for AutoCAD or other Autodesk products please feel free to contact us at JTB World with your inquiries.

If you have Windows 10 installed and also have an NVIDIA graphic card you might run into a problem installing KB3074683 where the computer restarts several times and fails to install the "Security Update for Windows 10 for x64-based Systems (KB3074683)".

Have you been trapped in a reboot loop? The update reaches a certain percentage of installation before failing and rolling back.

This might be a solution to the endless reboot cycle. It worked for me.

Run regedit in Windows. Hold down the Windows button on the keyboard and press R and enter regedit and click on OK. (As always with regedit, be careful and if needed make a backup of the registry first)

Then locate this key:

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\ProfileList

Now right click on ProfileList and select Find and enter UpdatusUser and click Find Next.

On the key where you find UpdatusUser in the ProfileImagePath, right click and click on Delete.

Now let Windows 10 make the update and hopefully it works for you too.

I found the solution that worked for me here. And if you want to know What is NVIDIA ’UpdatusUser’?

AutoCAD 2016 has got its first service pack and there are quite a lot of fixes so I suggest you install it.

AutoCAD service packs are now separate and independent of the specific service packs for AutoCAD-based vertical products.

• In the past, AutoCAD-specific fixes were included in the verticals service packs and you only needed to install the appropriate verticals service pack.
• From now on, you will need to install the AutoCAD service pack in addition to any applicable service pack for your vertical products.

Read more on the Autodesk's Knowledge Network page or get SP1 from Autodesk Application Manager:

Direct links to the installers:

• AutoCAD 2016 Service Pack 1 32 bit
• AutoCAD 2016 Service Pack 1 64 bit

According to the readme:

The following operating systems are officially supported for 32-bit and 64-bit AutoCAD 2016 with Service Pack 1.

• Windows 10 Enterprise edition
• Windows 10 Professional edition

Problems Reported with the Customer Error Reporting Utility

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 a number of problems. Updates were made to the following commands and features:

Dimensions

• Occasional crashes when adding dimension, mtext, or mleader objects in layout viewports.

Images

• Occasional crashes when working in a drawing containing a large image file.
• Occasional crashes when working in a geolocation drawing with an attached image.
• Occasional crashes when using the mouse wheel to zoom out in certain drawings with attached images.

Point Cloud

• Occasional crashes when docking or closing the Point Cloud Manager palette in Windows 10.

Publish

• Occasional crashes when publishing multiple layouts to single-sheet PDFs.

Selection

• Occasional crashes after object selection in a drawing with many xref layers.

General

• Crashes on startup when using certain AMD display cards with a recent driver.
• Occasional crashes when working with customized object snaps.
• Occasional crashes when there are a large number of polylines with assigned lineweights.
• Occasional crashes when opening certain drawings.
• Occasional crashes when attaching a PDF file.
• Occasional crashes when closing the program when there are a large number of layers in the drawing.
• Occasional crashes when moving objects using object snaps in 3D to a block or a reference in a layout.
• Occasional crashes when opening drawings from network folder shortcuts in Windows 10.
• Occasional crashes when selecting and deleting a subobject in a 3D solid.
• Occasional crashes when repeatedly opening and closing AutoCAD, and using the Refedit command along with Undo and Redo operations.

General Service Pack Updates

The following defects have been fixed:

3D Modeling

• Applying a Curve Surface Intersection between a plane and a line gives an incorrect result in some cases.

Block

• A nested block moves in some cases after it is fully exploded.

Cursor Badge

• The Zoom cursor badge does not turn off for the Zoom Window command even when the CURSORBADGE system variable is set to 1.

Dimensions

• Associative dimension values change when you change their dimension style in some cases.

Display

• Part of the complex DGN linetype in a curve is missing when High Quality Geometry is turned on.
• The wrong linetype displays when opening a drawing with complex DGN linetypes that are assigned to pline arcs.
• Concentric arcs with a small opening angle may not be displayed as concentric at some zoom levels.
• Ellipses and elliptical arcs on a layer with VP Freeze turned on display outside the layout viewport.
• Some object colors change when using ZOOM together with 3D Visual Styles with faces displayed.

Hatches

• The associativity of gradient fills turns off when you create them by clicking inside boundaries.
• Cannot set the hatch origin when using the ribbon when the COMMANDPREVIEW system variable is turned on.
• The hatch pattern definition is limited to 80 characters.
• The intersection osnap doesn't work for hatch patterns.
• The hatch pattern doesn't change in some cases when choosing a different hatch pattern from the ribbon during hatch creation.

Layers

• There is double space between each layer when the Layer Properties Manager is first opened.

Object Snap

• The intersection osnap does not work inside hatch patterns.

Plot and Publish

• Wipeout and masked text prints black when using the DWG to PDF PC3 file under Printer/Plotter.
• A hatch set to the color white is printed as black in a PDF in some cases.
• Hyperlinks attached to certain blocks causes the plotted PDF files to inflate in size.
• The text formatted for reading right-to-left is printed upside down.
• A high resolution image in a drawing might have an unexpected result when exported as a DWF file in some cases.
• A mismatched plot page size results in an error report and halts the print job in some cases.
• The default PDF file name discards all characters that follow a period.
• In some Truetype fonts, characters with diacritical marks that are underlined in a text object do not plot.
• When plotting PDF files, SHX text in PDF comments can be turned off by setting EPDFSHX=0 (the default is 1). In addition, some PDF viewers display text that uses SHX fonts as comments and this system variable addresses this issue as well. In a future release, we plan to rename this system variable to begin with the letters PDF.

Performance

• Performance slows down for the OPEN and REGEN commands in drawings that contain many dynamic block with fields.
• Performance slows down with the PUBLISH command in some cases.
• Performance is affected when opening drawings containing references to unresolved data extraction (DXE) files.

Quick Properties Palette

• The Quick Properties palette is not displayed anymore after closing the Block Editor when the Ribbon is closed.
• The Quick Properties palette displays unexpectedly when editing a Hatch object.

Security

• Includes a security patch to address a vulnerability where a specially crafted raster image in a drawing can trigger unauthorized code execution.

User Interface

• With right-click set to operate as an Enter at the Command prompt, a menu appears instead.

General

• The 3DCLIP and DVIEW options, CLip and Camera, doesn't clip circles, arcs, ellipses and elliptical arcs when High Quality Geometry is turned on.
• Lines are not clipped by the edges of layout viewports if the drawing contains a clipped PDF, DWF, or DWFx underlay.
• The ALIGN command doesn't work correctly for an object that is slightly rotated.
• Signed VLX files containing DCL dialogs boxes fail to display.
• Using eTransmit includes xrefs despite the Bind External References option being checked.
• The Start tab, Design Feed palette, and Help window do not display correctly with higher DPI settings.
• Customized Table Data in Table Style Settings fail to display.
• The tooltip from the Start tab remains displayed when Design Feed palette is open.

HVACPAC for AutoCAD is now available with support for AutoCAD 2016. Are you still doing HVAC and Piping work more or less manually in AutoCAD HVACPAC is the plug-in for you that will automate your work and save valuable time. Visit HVACPAC for AutoCAD for a 30-day trial.

If you speak French better than English or just prefer French head over to our reseller RasterTech's new webpage http://www.rastertech.fr/flexreport"JTB FlexReport est une solution économique mais complète pour un suivi des actifs logiciels et des licences, fournissant des statistiques enrichies." JTB FlexReport is not localized to other languages (yet) but our French reseller RasterTech has done product documentation in French and can also provide product support in French.

A couple of customers of JTB FlexReport reported about an issue with the the usage monitoring of ArcGIS licenses (like ARC/INFO, Grid, Tin, Viewer). The number of issued licenses and the number of licenses in use were 2-5 times higher than what the ArcGIS License Server Administrator showed. We found that it was the FlexNet tool lmutil.exe that caused this problem. lmutil.exe v11.12.1.4 and v11.12.1.2 did not work but v11.11.1.2 and v11.11.1.0 did work. Thus the solution was to take an older version of lmutil.exe and put in the JTB FlexReport folder.

JTB Word's DWG Columns for Explorer has been updated. We've fixed an issue with cleaning up column information when uninstalling. It has also been tested with Windows 10.

If you want to see the DWG and DXF properties and metadata in Explorer columns please give the trial a try. No need to have AutoCAD or other CAD programs installed for this to work. After the trial has expired you can still use it to show the DWG version information as long as you like.

With ACA_db you can use AutoCAD Architecture or AutoCAD MEP even more as part of your BIM process. Property Set values can automatically be updated back and forth to one or many external databases. If you make changes to the Extended Data values within a Property Set they can be synchronized back to the external database. Any Property in a Property Set Definition can be exported and all editable Properties can be imported.

This release adds support for AutoCAD Architecture 2016 or AutoCAD MEP 2016 as well as some bug fixes.

Contact us to get a time limited license file for free.

After some work on our main website jtbworld.com it is now mobile-friendly as well having a responsive design that is adapting to the size of the web browser you use.

If you still find any issues on the site please let us know.

AutoCAD 2016 for Mac and AutoCAD LT 2016 for Mac were released November 21, 2015 and here are the news:

• Xref path management– You can now map Xref file paths from your Mac to Windows machines, including networked servers, so sharing drawings back-and-forth between project team members is now easier.
• Express Tools– We’ve brought over several of the popular Express Tools from Windows to Mac, so you get the efficiency gains from Express Tools on your Mac and experience less friction when switching between platforms.
• Features from the Windows version of AutoCAD 2016– This release includes many of the newest features from the Windows version. You can now use Revision Clouds, DIM Command Enhancements, Command Preview, and Selection Effects on the Mac platform.
• Properties Palette– You can now display the Properties you use most often without having to scroll through the entire properties list.
• Multi-Lingual User Interface (MUI)– Set your language (French or English) in the Mac System Preferences and AutoCAD will follow. There’s now no need for a separate install.
• Update Notification– Updates are now delivered as small packages that don’t require lengthy downloads or install times.
• Smaller PDFs with select-and-search capability – PDF output file-size is now greatly reduced, making it easier to share and open. Text in your PDFs is now selectable and searchable.
• Pan and Zoom– Navigating your drawings is now easier because we’ve sped up and smoothed out panning and zooming.
• TrueType font enhancements– All TrueType font text is retained in the drawing, so panning and zooming performance is considerably improved.

More about AutoCAD for Mac.

SSMPropEditor 6.0 is now available. This Sheet Set Manager Editor can save hours of work if your company uses AutoCAD’s Sheet Set Manager. Use Find and Replace of text among all properties and all sheets or change properties on multiple sheets at the same time. If you want to make changes in Excel, that can be done too. Copy custom properties that are defined in one Sheet Set into another Sheet Set. All you need to speed up your work with the Sheet Set Manager.

For details on this release see the revision history.

The installer for SSMPropEditor as an app within AutoCAD will be available later this month.

Download is available here and works in trial mode for 30 days. Existing customers can upgrade for free.

More from JTB World: Create new Sheet Sets including drawings based on an Excel template with out JTB Sheet Set Creator.

If you want to save all your layouts to separate drawings our free LayoutsToDwgs.lsp can do the trick. It has just been updated to both solve an issue related to a dialog box showing “Include AutoCAD Map information in the export?” as well as to work fine with the most recent versions of AutoCAD. Direct download of this AutoLISP app is here.

JTB World’s Text Bubble app for AutoCAD has been updated to version 2.6 and is now also available as a trial.

With our Text Bubble app you can easily create and renumber text bubbles in AutoCAD as well as convert existing text into text bubbles.

See also our JTB Text Bubble Plus app with more functionalities.

This is the first post I’ve done using Open Live Writer (OLW). With the release 0.5.1.2 there is support for Blogger after Google updated their API to use OAuth 2 and thus breaking the functionality in the old Windows Live Writer and the initial release of OLW. The error was: Blogger returned the following error: NotFound: Not Found.

A known issue with this release is that labels/categories can’t be set when posting to Blogger.

For some background on how Microsoft’s WLW became Open Source OLW see the Announcing Open Live Writer - An Open Source Fork of Windows Live Writer post by Hanselman.

SSMPropEditor 6.1 is now available. This Sheet Set Manager Editor can save hours of work if your company uses AutoCAD’s Sheet Set Manager. Use Find and Replace of text among all properties and all sheets or change properties on multiple sheets at the same time. If you want to make changes in Excel, that can be done too. Copy custom properties that are defined in one Sheet Set into another Sheet Set. All you need to speed up your work with the Sheet Set Manager.

For details on this release see the revision history.

Downloads are available here and works in trial mode for 30 days. Existing customers can upgrade for free and use their existing license file.

More from JTB World: Create new Sheet Sets including drawings based on an Excel template with out JTB Sheet Set Creator.

JTB FlexReport 10.0 has been released. JTB FlexReport is a solution for monitoring network license usage and software usage in general. With its reports you are in a better position to know the actual usage of often expensive licenses. You will easier predict when and how to handle the need of increases or decreases of your licenses.

Here’s a chart showing usage for the last month. The Chart Client is easier to use now because depending on report type, settings that are not relevant to that report type are hidden.

Notice a welcome feature making it much easier to create commonly used charts. Make favorites and access them quickly.

Here are downloads.

Here’s the revision history describing when is new and fixed in this release.

Thhis update is for all customer with current maintenance agreement. If yours has expired you’re welcome to renew it.

Contact us to get a time limited license file for free. You can try it in your environment with your real data for a few weeks with full functionality. Support is free so if you run into any questions we’re here to help you.

Flexera Software FlexNet Publisher, version 11.13.1.0 and earlier, lmgrd and custom vendor daemon servers contain a buffer overflow vulnerability that may be leveraged to gain code execution. Vulnerability Note VU#485744 on CERT describes “Flexera Software FlexNet Publisher lmgrd contains a buffer overflow vulnerability”.

Users of affected software should contact product vendors for update information.

I checked if Autodesk has released an update but nothing so far. Check with your vendors and contact them if they have not provided an update.

When there is an update for FlexNet ready from your vendor I foresee no problem to use JTB FlexReport or JTB FlexReport LT with it. Lmutil.exe that is in the JTB FlexReport folder or the folder where JTB FlexReport LT.exe is located could be updated but should not be affected by this vulnerability.

SSMPropEditor 6.2 is now available. Are you using the Sheet Set Manager then you will save a lot of time, frustration and money with our app.

Use Find and Replace of text among all properties and all sheets or change properties on multiple sheets at the same time. If you want to make changes in Excel, that can be done too. Copy custom properties that are defined in one Sheet Set into another Sheet Set. And more…

For details on this release see the revision history.

Downloads are available here and works in trial mode for 30 days. Existing customers can upgrade for free and use their existing license file.

More from JTB World: Create new Sheet Sets including drawings based on an Excel template with out JTB Sheet Set Creator.

If you would need help to develop any custom app or program we can help. We specializes on AutoCAD and Revit but also do work for other CAD platforms as well as pure Windows apps.

It has come to our knowledge that some Microsoft Office (Office 2013, Office 2016, Office 365) updates are causing troubles with our DWG Columns product that can show DWG properties in Windows Explorer / File Explorer.

If you have activated the columns in Explorer you will notice that they are missing after Office is updated and can’t be added back again.

Microsoft Office development team are now aware of this problem and hopefully will fix this so it’s not happening in future Office updates.

In the meantime the workaround is to for example add the following to your Windows login scripts or run it manually on the command line and after that the columns can be added again.

rundll32.exe "C:\Program Files\JTB World\DWG Columns\DWGPropertyHandler.dll",InstallPropertySchema

This issue will affect any software that has similar functionality to show custom properties or metadata in Explorer using the Windows Windows Property System API.

JTB FlexReport 10.1 has been released. With JTB FlexReport you can monitor license usage across your network.

Here are downloads.

Here’s the revision history describing when is new and fixed in this release.

This update is for all customer with current maintenance agreement. If yours has expired you’re welcome to renew it.

Contact us to get a time limited license file for free. You can try it in your environment with your real data for a few weeks with full functionality. Support is free so if you run into any questions we’re here to help you.