AutoCAD 2011 for Mac
Update 2 Readme

1This Readme contains important information about AutoCAD® 2011 for Mac® Update 2.
It is strongly recommended that you read this entire document before you apply this update
to your product. For reference, you should save this document to your hard drive or print acopy.

Primary Issues Resolved by This Update
This update resolves problems that have been reported by the Customer Error
Reporting (CER) utility and other general problems identified after AutoCAD
2011 for Mac Update 1 was made available.

Problems Reported with the Customer Error Reporting Utility
As a result of detailed information from customers who used the Customer Error
Reporting (CER) utility, a number of problems were identified and fixed. Updates
have been made to the following features:■

2D Display■

3D Navigation■

Blocks■Clipboard■

Command Line■

Find and Replace■

General UI

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Menu

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Open/Save

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Plot

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Properties Inspector■

Render■Start-up/Close■

External References (Xrefs)

General Updates
General changes and improvements have been made to the following features:
Blocks■AutoCAD for Mac no longer closes unexpectedly when selecting a dynamicblock, saving a block and exiting the block editor, or undoing an edit
operation in the block editor.

Copy/Paste■

COPYCLIP and PASTECLIP are no longer unstable after installing the 10.6.7
update for Mac OS X.

Find/Replace■

Finding text strings in hyperlinks that are contained in a block no longer
result in the program becoming unstable.

General UI■

After using the RENDER command, the AutoCAD for Mac menus on theapplication menu bar no longer become inactive.

Open/Save■

The default location for the Autosave folder is now~/Documents/Autodesk/Autosave.

■Some drawing file corruption issues were resolved with non-supportedlanguages.

Plot■"Save As Adobe PDF" now works when printing a drawing.

2 | Chapter 1 AutoCAD 2011 for Mac Update 2 Readme■Improved PDF output for arcs and lineweights.

Polylines■

AutoCAD for Mac is no longer unstable when removing vertices from somecurve-fit polylines.

Start-up/Close■

On systems that do not use the default "Mac OS Extended (Journaled)" fileformat, AutoCAD for Mac cannot be started.

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When closing AutoCAD for Mac and after using the Flatshot dialog box,
the program is no longer unstable.

Zoom/Pan■

Active command no longer stops working in a locked viewport after using
Zoom/Pan.

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Memory leaks related to Zoom/Pan have been resolved.

Installation Instructions
IMPORTANT AutoCAD 2011 for Mac Update 1 must be installed before you can
install Update 2.
To install this AutoCAD 2011 for Mac Update 2, do the following:
1 Close AutoCAD for Mac and all applications before you begin to install
the update.
2 Double-click AutoCAD2011forMacUpdate2.dmg to mount the volume.
3 Double-click AutoCAD2011forMacUpdate2.mpkg in the new mounted
volume to run the installer.
4 Follow the on-screen instructions.
5 Launch AutoCAD for Mac after the installation has completed.
6 At the command prompt, type _vernum and press Enter to verify theupdate was installed. The version number should be "E.49.H.554".

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Uninstall This Update
This update replaces files from the original installation of AutoCAD for Macand cannot be uninstalled separately.
To uninstall this update, do the following:
1 Close AutoCAD for Mac.
2 In Finder, navigate to Applications ➤ Autodesk ➤ AutoCAD 2011 anddouble-click Remove AutoCAD.
3 Follow the on-screen instructions.
4 Reinstall AutoCAD for Mac from the original product media or download.

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