Project location text in Uppercase
changes to Lowercase in Project Manager on reopening AutoCAD Electrical Hotfix
This hotfix corrects an issue that the user input uppercase project location
text changes to lowercase in Project Manager on reopening AutoCAD Electrical.
Prerequisites
- You must have AutoCAD®
Electrical 2011 Update 1 installed.
- You will need
administrative privileges.
Note: This hotfix will update all language versions.
Installation
Instructions
- Exit AutoCAD Electrical
- Download the hotfix:
DL15908654.zip
- Find the product
installation folder; for example C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Acade 2011.
- In this folder,
right-click the WDCOM1.fas file.
- If this file has a
modified date of 2/20/2010 (Feb 20th, 2010), then proceed with this installation.
- If this file has a
modified date of 10/18/2010 (Oct 18th, 2010), then this hotfix has
already been applied.
- Rename the original file
for backup.
- In the product
installation folder, right-click the file WDCOM1.fas and rename it
WDCOM1.bak.
- Double-click the
downloaded file.
- Extract WDCOM1.fas to
the product installation folder (for example, C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Acade 2011).
- Confirm that the
modified date of the replaced file, WDCOM1.fas, is 10/18/2010 (Oct 18th,
2010).
NOTE: To remove this HOTFIX, delete the new WDCOM1.fas file and rename the file WDCOM1.bak back to its
original name of WDCOM1.fas.
Note for the Existing Projects
- This hotfix corrects the
issue for the new projects only. Refer to the solution below for
correcting your existing projects.
Solution for the
Existing Projects
- Delete LastProj.fil
file, it is located at following folders,
XP: C:\Documents and
Settings\<current user>\Application Data\Autodesk\AutoCAD Electrical
2011\R18.1\enu\Support\User.
Vista or Windows 7: C:\Users\<current user>\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\AutoCAD Electrical 2011\R18.1\enu\Support\User.
Note:
You need to re-open the projects again after performing this
operation as the Project Manager will not list the previously opened projects.
Thank you for your commitment to Autodesk®products.
Respectfully,
AutoCAD Electrical Team