Autodesk 3ds Max CAT Readme

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Installing and Uninstalling 3ds Max CAT

The processes for installing and uninstalling 3ds Max CAT are described in the Autodesk 3ds Max CAT Installation Guide. You can download the installation guide (Autodesk_3ds_Max_CAT_Installation_Guide.pdf) from the same location from which you downloaded the software. Following are a few points related to installing and licensing of 3ds Max CAT:

• Before an end-user with restricted Windows® operating system privileges can use 3ds Max CAT, an administrator, with full privileges, must install and start the software one time in order to generate the Windows® operating system registry information needed to complete the installation.

• On Windows Vista® operating system: User Access Control (UAC) must be temporarily disabled before attempting to install 3ds Max CAT.

Documentation with 3ds Max CAT

Online help and how-to movies are included with this release of 3ds Max CAT. The online help replaces the wiki help that was supplied in earlier releases of 3ds Max CAT. You can access the help from the 3ds Max CAT menu in Autodesk 3ds Max/3ds Max Design. You can access the how-to movies for 3ds Max CAT from the main page of the help. Also, find the help and movies online: www.autodesk.com/3dsmax-cat-help and www.autodesk.com/3dsmax-cat-how-to-movies.

Release Version with Beta

If you previously installed any beta version (including Release Candidate (RC) versions) of 3ds Max CAT, you must uninstall and delete all system folders pertaining to these prerelease versions before you can install the commercial version. Instructions on how to uninstall the software are posted on the beta portal in the Beta and RC Readme files.

Customer Error Reports (CERs)

We are able to improve the stability of 3ds Max CAT largely because of the CERs that end-users submit. We thank you for taking the time to fill out these reports and ask you to include as much information as possible about what actions you were performing at the time the error occurred. These details raise the value of the report immensely and are very much appreciated by the 3ds Max CAT Quality Engineering team. For further information about Customer Error Reports (CERs), refer to www.autodesk.com/cer/.

Issues Resolved in Autodesk 3ds Max CAT The following issues are resolved in Autodesk 3ds Max CAT (for Autodesk 3ds Max/3ds Max Design 2010). CATMotion • You are no longer presented with an empty treeview when viewing the CATMotion graphs in the curve editor. Layers • Collapsing layers no longer causes a scripting error.

MAXScript • MAXScript now works properly with Bone Dimensions.

Menu Tools • The menu tools no longer cause a crash. Muscle Strand • Data is no longer lost when a muscle strand is copied and pasted. Pivot Drawing Scale • The gizmo size is now proportional to the foot platform size.

Rendering • Changing the render presets will no longer cause the rig to collapse to the origin.

RG3 Files • The silent failure on saving over existing RG3 files has been fixed.

Sub-object Mode • Now you can successfully select a new layer while in sub-object mode.

Uninstall • Menu items are no longer available after you uninstall Autodesk 3ds Max CAT.

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