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Autodesk^® Revit^® LT 2017.2 Update

Reported Issues Resolved within Revit LT 2017

This list represents the reported issues resolved in Autodesk Revit 2017 LT within build: 20170118_1100. The issues are listed based upon discipline and feature. Issues denoted with an * are directly reported by Revit users via Product Support Cases, Customer Error Reports (CER) and Autodesk Communities. The items displayed for Revit LT 2017.1 Update do not include the feature enhancements included within that release. Those feature enhancements can be found within the What's New section of the Revit LT 2017.2 online Help.

2017.2 Update
- Align
  - Improves stability when aligning structural elements in plan view.*
- Annotation
  - Corrects an issue with scaling of the Operating System text, so that it no longer has any effects text within a view.*
  - Improves stability when using calculated parameter in an annotation tag label.*
- Family
  - Corrects an issue where instances of shared nested families were not updating when more than one level deep.*
  - Corrects an issue which prevented type duplication of families with shared project parameters associated to formula driven family parameters.*
- File Open/ Save/ Upgrade
  - Corrects an issue which causes model corruption when enabling work-sharing and replacing an existing model.*
  - Improves stability when opening project which contains model corruption.
- Graphics
  - Improves stability when you by double-click to edit a family from the Work Plane Viewer.*
- Import/Export
  - Corrects the display of some imported DWG files in section views.*
  - Adds the option to set the color for the hatch pattern background when exporting to DWG/DXF.
  - Adds the option to export to DWG/DXF and DGN in True Color (RGB Values), as specified in the view.
- Keynotes
  - Corrects an issue in which Keynotes By Sheet could lose their numerical value.*
- Materials
  - Improves stability when working with the Material Browser and Paint tool.*
- Projects
  - Improves stability when mirroring a project.*
  - Improves stability when Load Types are copied between projects or transferred with project standards.*
- Options
  - Corrects an issue which prevented a newly added path in the Options dialog from being saved correctly.*
  - Improves stability when adding keyboard shortcuts for a command with an empty Paths field.*
- Rendering
  - Corrects an issue where an error message was presented when rendering with a transparent background in the cloud.*
- User Interface
  - For the UK terminology, corrects missing User Interface components which were introduced with Revit 2017.1 update.*
  - Improves stability when right clicking on the drop down list when changing a view reference.*
  - Changes the keyboard shortcut for the Location tool from "L" to "O" in the Manage and Analyze tabs to avoid a conflict.*
  - Corrects an issue in which the Space Naming tool dialog display did not scale correctly when DPI is set above 100%.*
2017.1.1 Update
- Security
  - FBX
- Graphics
  - Fixed crash when closing Revit on some systems using a hardware Direct3D device.*
- Export DWF
  - Fixed an issue that caused the ViewCube, SteeringWheels, and the navigation bar to disappear after exporting the model to DWFx.*
2017.1 Update
- Export DWG/DXF
  - Improves performance when exporting to DWG.*
- Graphics
  - Corrects an issue in which zoomed views could occasionally cause the display of a mirrored selection in the text editor.*
- Materials
  - Improves stability of the Material Browser when materials are edited.*
  - Improves stability of the Paint tool and the Materials Browser.*
- Part Elements
  - Adds the ability to export ODBC elements in Parts category.*
- Print
  - Corrects an issue where elements from a linked file would erroneously disappear on printing.*
- Security
  - Addresses a vulnerability where a specially crafted raster image in a project can trigger unauthorized code execution.
- Upgrade
  - Improves stability when upgrading files which contain some corruption.*
  - Improves stability during upgrade when a host and linked model(s) are specified transmitted by eTransmit.*
- View
  - Improves stability when trying to activate a view that no longer exists.*
  - Improves stability when creating a View Template from a dependent view that contained a plan region.*
Service Pack 2
- Align
  - Correct an issue where an alignment lock would not appear when using the align tool with the centerline of wall cores.*
- Annotation
  - Corrects an issue with complex fonts not displaying correctly on Microsoft Windows 10.*
  - Corrects an issue were text nested in a family would not print via raster printing.
- Assembly
  - Corrects an issue that caused identical copies of an assembly, within copies of a mass, to incorrectly get new names.*
- DirectShapes
  - Corrects an issue where Purge Unused could show some DirectShape element types that were still in use.*
- Family
  - Improves stability when upgrading a project which contains corrupted elements.*
  - Improved stability when working with families which contain invalid IDs.*
- Graphics
  - Improves stability during graphics regeneration.*
- Linked Files
  - Improves stability during upgrade in Revit LT when a host and linked model(s) are set to have been transmitted by eTransmit.*
- Materials
  - Improves stability when material folder is not found.*
  - Improves stability and slow performance of the materials browser caused by poor performance during rendering of material thumbnail previews.*
  - Improved stability when closing the Material Browser dialog.*
  - Improves stability when copying families with an incorrect material definition.*
- Railing
  - Improves stability when sketching stair elements.*
- Snap
  - Improves stability when the view extents minimum is greater than the maximum.*
- User Interface
  - Improves stability of the Ribbon and WPF components when the workstation does not properly support WPF's use of Hardware Acceleration.*
- View
  - Improves stability when associating a view filter with grid filtering based upon project parameters.*
  - Corrects an issue causing the keyboard shortcut for View Range to incorrectly allow modification of the View Range when a View Template is applied to the view.
Service Pack 1
- Family
  - Corrects the positioning of shared nested family instances in a host family.*
- Graphics
  - Improves performance when the "Allow Navigation During Redraw" option is enabled.*
  - Improves stability when an .rvt file is drag/dropped onto Revit.exe which launches in WARP (software) mode.
- Keyboard Shortcuts
  - Corrects an issue with truncated keyboard shortcut names in the status bar.
- Linked RVT Files
  - Improves stability when reloading linked projects.
- Mass
  - Improves stability while placing masses in a model.
- Material
  - Corrects an issue in which the preview image within the Initial Color dialog for lighting fixtures is missing when Revit is installed on Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 systems.
- Open/Save
  - Corrects an issue which prevents saving of projects when a product crash occurred.
- Parameters
  - Corrects visibility of the Associate Family Parameter tooltip.*
  - Corrects an issue which allows the association of global parameters to built-in family type parameters before a value has been entered into the family type parameter.
- Print
  - Corrects an issue where hatch patterns from linked underlay elements were printing but not displayed.*
  - Corrects an issue causing some wall tags and duct tags to not print during batch plot.*
  - Corrects an issue where printing the visible portion of window while a non-rectangular crop region is defined causes model geometry to disappear.*
- Schedule
  - Renames "Standard" from the schedules formatting tab to "No calculation".
  - Corrects an issue in which Revit hangs when editing a text parameter in the schedule if the drop-down list contains an empty line.*
  - Improves stability when editing text in schedule.
- Stair
  - Improves stability when placing stairs in floor plan views.*
- User Interface
  - Allows the column width of the type properties dialog to continue to be adjustable.
  - Corrects an issue that could cause Revit to hang when the focus is switched to a dialog.
  - Corrects an issue when using properties dialog in group edit mode.
  - Improves stability when launching tools from the Quick Access Toolbar while working in Family Editor.
  - Improves stability when exiting Revit during startup.
- Wall
  - Improves stability when editing a wall assembly.
  - Improves stability when using automatic wall joins.*