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Tuesday, April 02, 2019

Autodesk® AutoCAD® Electrical 2020 Release Notes

What's New in AutoCAD Electrical 2020

Installation Requirements

  • Installation requirements for One AutoCAD
  • One AutoCAD configuration, licensing and deployment options
  • Autodesk product installation, licensing, and deployment

Installing via the Autodesk® Desktop App

Content libraries are always installed to their default location regardless of the settings specified in the Autodesk desktop app.

Only the following libraries are installed by default. Use the Windows Control Panel to install additional libraries, if required.

  • Manufacturer Content Libraries - AB, ABB, Anixter, and Telemecanique.
  • Symbol libraries for the default standard.

Autodesk® Vault Basic 2020 (Client)

Please sign in with your Autodesk ID and download the Autodesk Vault Basic (Server and Client) from http://www.autodesk.com/account.

Catalog Database Schema

It is recommended that you do not make any changes to the default catalog database schema, such as modifying the column name or adding a column between existing columns. Refer to the AutoCAD Electrical Help for more information about Catalog Database Schema.

Project Migration

For projects created in AutoCAD Electrical 2020, in order to open it in AutoCAD Electrical 2015 or earlier versions, you need to save the project file (*.wdp) and other related files to ANSI format using any text editor.

Language Packs 

  • AutoCAD Electrical does not support running a specific language product on a different language operating system. For example, running a Simplified Chinese AutoCAD Electrical on English operating system will not function properly and is not a supported configuration. In some cases this might work when the languages are similar. English AutoCAD Electrical works well on any language operating system.
  • You can download the Autodesk AutoCAD Electrical Language Packs from Autodesk website. 

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