If you are getting crashes or visual display issues in your Autodesk software like AutoCAD, Inventor, Revit, 3ds Max, Maya etc. it could very well be your graphics driver. After years of reading solutions and reports of problems, the top issue is graphics drivers and the second being you have not installed the latest product updates. In fact recently I was experiencing issues myself after a system update of my laptop which affected my software, updating to a supported driver solved the problem. So before trying a million other fixes, first check and make sure you have an updated and approved graphics driver installed and also your product updates.
http://autodesk.com/graphics-hardware
Two articles from the past that are still very relevant today:
