AutoCAD Electrical 2008 Service Pack 1 Readme
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This Readme contains the latest information regarding the installation and
use of this service pack. It is strongly recommended that you read this entire
document before you apply the service pack to your product. For your reference,
you should save this Readme to your hard drive or print a copy.
Contents
Who Should Install the Service
Pack?
Supported Operating Systems
Information for Windows Vista Users
Primary Issues
Resolved by the Service Pack
General Installation Information
Stand-Alone Installation Instructions
Deployment Installation
Instructions
To Uninstall this Service Pack
Who Should Install the Service Pack?
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Service
Pack 1 is for the following Autodesk products running on all supported
operating systems and languages. Be sure to install the correct service pack
for your software.
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Product
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Service
Pack
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AutoCAD
Electrical 2008 (32-bit)
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Ace2008_swl_SP1.exe
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AutoCAD
Electrical 2008 (64-bit)
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Ace2008_swl_SP1x64.exe
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Supported Operating Systems
This Service Pack can be used with the following operating systems:
- Microsoft® Windows®
2000 (SP4)
- Microsoft Windows XP Home and
Professional Editions (SP2)
- Microsoft Windows Vista™
Enterprise
- Microsoft Windows Vista Business
- Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate
- Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium
- Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic
- Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64
Edition
- Microsoft Vista Business 64-bit
- Microsoft Vista Enterprise 64-bit
- Microsoft Vista Ultimate 64-bit
- Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium
64-bit
- Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic
64-bit
Information for
Windows Vista Users
- When applying this service pack while
running AutoCAD Electrical, it is recommended that you do not click the
"Automatically close applications and attempt to restart them after
setup is complete" option. Instead, close AutoCAD Electrical manually
before completing the installation of the service pack.
Primary Issues Resolved by the
Service Pack
NOTE: AutoCAD
Electrical 2008 Service Pack 1 includes the AutoCAD 2008 Service Pack 1. For
issues resolved by the AutoCAD 2008 Service Pack 1, please see the appropriate
service pack readme located on the Autodesk
support web site.
Cross-Referencing
- Incorrect
Cross-Reference information can be displayed for graphical and table formats
if contact symbols on multiple drawings happen to have identical “handle”
numbers.
- Unable
to surf on Cross-Reference Exception report.
- Cross-Reference
Error report incorrectly returns error messages for Form-C relay contacts.
- Tag
value in a table cross-reference style is not updated when parent
component is moved.
- Long
cross-referencing Mtext values can include unexpected characters when more
than twelve references are listed.
- Child
cross-referencing text can be incorrect under certain circumstances during
re-tag with parent tag override.
- Real-time
cross-referencing based upon pin number edits may not update properly in
IEC-tagging mode for contacts marked with non-blank location attribute
values.
Electrical Audit
- Electrical
Audit reported duplicate wire ID errors if the Wire ID of any cable marker
was left blank.
- The
“Go To” option on the Electrical Audit dialog does not respond properly in
the Russian and French versions.
Find/Edit/Replace
- Find/Edit/Replace
Component Text fails to save individual manual edits of non-blank
attribute values.
- Find/Edit/Replace
Component Text can fail to update the first two description values under
certain conditions.
Insert/Edit Component
- Multi-pole
component insert of all children contacts (i.e. no parent) is incorrectly hiding
attributes on all child poles instead of keeping the first child’s tag and
description and cross-reference attributes as visible.
- When
editing schematic terminal numbers on pre-AutoCAD Electrical 2008
drawings, panel terminal representations tied to the same schematic wire
number could be incorrectly updated.
- Help
button returns incorrect message ‘The page cannot be displayed’ when
inserting a terminal under IEC tagging mode.
- Add/Modify
Association dialog shows duplicated terminal numbers when using the
OK-Repeat option.
- Inserting
an item number balloon with a very short leader can fail.
- Parametric
connector insert can fail to take the ‘Search for PLC I/O address on insert’
option into account.
- The
catalog BOM ‘Units’ edit box data field is no longer forced to upper case.
- OSnap
setting was incorrectly reset between each component insert when inserting
multiple footprints from schematic list.
- Show/Edit
Miscellaneous option locks up when selected block contains attributes
added using the Add Attribute command.
- Unable
to change the value of a Fixed tag on a PLC I/O module from the Edit
Component dialog.
- When
using IEC tagging mode, changing a description on a panel footprint fails
to update description on parent component.
- Insert
Component always showed slide files with a black background.
Miscellaneous
- Multi-pole
component pin number assignments not always matching equivalent single pole
insert assignments.
- Panel
Wire Annotation could fail to find a match-up with related schematic
components under certain conditions.
- Incorrect
translation display of several phrases in various dialogs.
- Multiple
cable marker insert could reference an incorrect table during catalog data
lookup.
- Pin
values on a second Form-C contact can get assigned incorrectly.
- Duplicated
wire annotation can get placed on panel footprint symbols on non-active
drawings.
- API
call WD_INSYMX fails to insert designated block if there is not a vertical
version of the block present on the drawing.
- On
some systems with “.ttc” font files present, the Modify Symbol Library
command can fail.
- When
using IEC tagging mode, Update from Spreadsheet feature may incorrectly
remove a leading hyphen character from component tag references.
- Editing
a location box using grips and right-click could cause an application lock
up.
- Copy
Installation/Location Codes command can fail to find and update a panel
footprint’s related schematic components.
- Form-C
contact pin numbers may not assign correctly when applied to single N.O.
and N.C. component symbols.
- Edit
function on Surf dialog fails when surfing on a single PLC I/O point.
- Signal
arrows created as Dynamic Blocks are not being recognized as AutoCAD
Electrical symbols.
- Mark/Verify
Drawings does not correctly process single PLC I/O point components.
- Swap
Block fails to retain the attribute location for component tags that are
flagged as Fixed.
- Swap
Block fails to retain components Cross-Reference override values.
- Move
Component can cause Installation and/or Location values to get copied to
component tag.
- In
IEC tagging mode, using Move Component to move a parent component can
cause the Location value to be removed from the tag.
- In
IEC tagging mode, if Location and Installation values are blank, Child
Location/Description Update may fail to find and update related panel footprints.
- Show
Terminal Associations failed to display complete association details in
the command line.
- Freshen
button on Schematic Wire Number -> Panel Wiring Diagram dialog is
sometimes inappropriately enabled.
PLC
- Renaming
a PLC module in the PLC Database File Editor causes application lock up.
- PLC
Database File Editor not allowing a new PLC module series to be created or
the first module added to an empty series table.
- Unable
to delete PLC modules from the PLC Database Editor.
- Some
new Types added to the PLC database will not get retrieved from the
database when accessed by the PLC Database File Editor.
- Adjusted
labels for columns 3 and 4 in the Spreadsheet to PLC I/O Utility and
default spreadsheet.
- Split
PLC failing if run on a PLC I/O module that has a fixed tag-ID attribute
value.
- Incorrect
IEC-mode tag can get assigned to a child single PLC I/O point when using
the Parent/Sibling selection.
- Spreadsheet
to PLC I/O Utility I/O incorrectly listed style “0” as a valid selection
from the drop-down lists.
- Spreadsheet
to PLC I/O Utility can fail soon after displaying and dismissing the
column assignment dialog.
- Spreadsheet
to PLC I/O Utility saves the path to the drawing template file
incorrectly.
Projects
- New
Drawing command may truncate a file name that contains multiple period (.)
characters.
- New
Drawing command can fail if the selected template drawing is marked
“read-only”.
- When
creating a new project, the default ‘Linex’ descriptions labels are
displayed instead of any customized set.
- Project
properties does not retain spaces in the Reference Separator for
Cross-Reference format.
- Project
Manager does not allow drawings to be added to a project that begin with
an equal (=) sign character.
- On
AutoCAD Electrical startup, projects are randomly sorted in the Project
Manager.
- Project
Manager does not display Sheet Number values for drawings listed in non-active
projects.
- Project
Tasks fail to update if there is an embedded apostrophe character (‘) in
the project name or project path.
- Running
a Vault related command on a project before AutoCAD Electrical is
completely loaded or without highlighting a project can cause a Fatal
Error.
Reports
- Panel
Bill of Material in ‘Full: include schematic components’ mode can double-up
the reported quantity of certain items.
- From/To
report is ignoring the defined wire sequence or implied angled-tee marker
sequencing under certain conditions.
- Saving
a Panel Bill of Material to a csv file format can fail if either the LOC
or INST fields are included in the displayed report.
- Automatic
Report Generation can fail when using the Force to Maximum Rows options.
- Panel
Bill of Material report can report incorrect terminal quantities if
multiple terminal strips are inserted.
- Automatic
Report Generator does not use the Sort field defined in the Component
Report ‘.set’ file when generating the report.
- Panel
and/or Schematic Bill of Materials reports saved in XML file format have
missing data and data fields.
- Saving
a Panel Bill of Materials report to a CSV file format fails to output the
Tags values to the file.
- Unable
to use the Surf command on a report table that uses a True type font.
Retag/Resequence
- When Resequence Item Numbers is run on footprints that
contain WIPEOUT entities, the WIPEOUT entities do not auto-regenerate
properly.
- Retag Components command can fail to assign PLC I/O
addressing based tags to components.
- Retagging stretched components can result in incorrectly
formatted tag assignments.
Signals
- Unable to surf on Signals Error Report.
- Unable to insert Source or Destination wire arrows on closely
spaced wires.
- Update Signal References can sometimes trigger a duplicate
wire number when an in-line wire number is present.
Tagging
- Automatic
incrementing of text string values can return unexpected values if
the source includes an embedded hyphen (-) character. Areas of
the application that are affected by this include:
- Ladder
line references
- Sequential
wire numbering
- Sequential
component tagging
- Re-sequencing
item numbers
- Increment
and decrement buttons on various dialogs
Terminal Strip Editor
- Roll
over tool tip fails to display for terminal strips listed on the Terminal
Strip Selection dialog.
- After
creating a new terminal strip and inserting it, the Terminal Strip Dialog
does not re-open.
- CTRL+Left
mouse click on a selected row fails to unselect it.
- Terminal
footprints are placed on the active layer instead of the one defined in
Panel Configuration.
- The
terminal strip location can shift after sorting and rebuilding the strip.
- Inability
to distinguish distinct terminal strips under certain conditions where
text substrings can resolve to the same numeric value.
- Double
clicking on a tabular terminal strip data row canl cause the application
to lock up.
- Component
connections marked Internal and External are sometimes not reported correctly.
- Rebuilding
a terminal strip incorrectly removes the item number assignment.
- Tabular
Terminal Strip (Table Objects) cannot be set up to contain only two
columns.
Wires/Wire Numbers
- Unique wire numbers are placed on both sides of a connector
symbol even when the connector is designed for no wire number change.
- Blank lines at the bottom of the default.wdw file can cause
Change/Convert Wire Type to fail.
- Angled Tee markers inserted during Insert Wire or Insert
Ladder are incorrectly oriented.
- Wire Sequence using Wire Tee markers can report incorrectly
if daisy chained source/destination arrows are used.
- Graphics to Show Internal/External Connects are too small
when in IEC mode.
- Trim Wire can leave multiple instances of copied wire
numbers.
- Project wide automatic wire numbering can fail if the
specific wire number block cannot be located on disk (even if block
reference is present on the drawing).
- Project wide automatic wire numbering can insert wire number
leaders even if the ‘Never use’ mode is selected in the Drawing
Properties.
- Editing a wire number on a wire that contains a wire source
can lead to mis-matched wire numbers on the Source and Destination wires.
- Toggling an existing wire number to in-line does not always
hold its current position.
- Move Wire Number can fail to move an in-line wire number.
General Installation Information
Before You Start
As you prepare to install the service pack, keep these points in mind:
· Custom files backup — Before you apply
this service pack, be sure to back up all custom CUI, MNR, and MNL files.
· Administrative
privileges —
During installation, you will be prompted for the original installation disc or
network image. You must have administrative permissions to install and
uninstall products in order to successfully apply service packs.
· Network deployment — Administrators can
deploy the service pack over the network using a Network Deployment.
Please refer to the Deployment
Installation Instructions section.
· Updated Certified
Hardware XMLDatabase — For optimal performance when using 3D visualization
features, please apply the latest Certified Hardware XML Database from http://www.autodesk.com/autocad-graphicscardupdate.
For a complete list of certified, supported, and non-supported graphics
hardware for 3D display features, please visit http://www.autodesk.com/autocad-graphicscard.
About Windows Command Line Switches
Two Microsoft® Windows® command line switches are
built into this service pack:
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/e – Extracts the MSP
file from the service pack executable. Instructions about how to use the
/e command line switch are included in the procedures below.
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/q – Suppresses the
completion message after the service pack is applied. This is useful if you use
a script or batch file to apply the service pack to multiple computers.
Stand-Alone Installation
Instructions
To update a stand-alone installation
1. Download
the service pack and save it to any folder.
2. Insert
the product disc (for example, AutoCAD Electrical).
3. Find
the folder where you saved the service pack and double-click the executable
(EXE) file.
Apply This Service Pack through a Local
Network
You can use Communication Center to apply this service pack through your
local network. Detailed instructions on how to set up patching through your
local network are listed in the Communication Center tab of the CAD Manager
Control Utility help.
NOTE:
The CAD Manager Control Utility can be installed from the product
installation CD by selecting Network Deployment and then selecting the Autodesk
CAD Manager Tools 4.0 link in the Media Browser.
Deployment
Installation Instructions
The following distribution methods apply only to administrative images
created with the Deployment Wizard. After you complete these procedures, any
subsequent deployments of the product will include the service pack updates.
The patch (service pack) file that you download contains an MSP (Microsoft
Patch) file. Extract it from the executable file using the /e (extract)
switch. For an example of the syntax, see step 2, below.
To add the service pack to a new
administrative image
- From
the Autodesk Product Support website, download the service pack EXE file
to your local computer.
- On
the Start menu (Windows), click Run. Enter information using the following
syntax and click OK.
<local_drive:>\<patch_name>\ /e
<local_drive:>\< patch_name>.msp
- Insert
the AutoCAD Electrical disc and launch setup.exe.
- Select
"Create Deployments," then click Next.
- On
the "Begin Deployment" page, in the "Specify the Deployment
Location" box, enter the shared network location where you would like
to create an administrative image, or click "Browse" to find a
location. Users install the product from this location.
- In
the "Specify a Deployment Name" box, enter the name for your
deployment.
- Continue
through the Deployment Wizard, and Configure when allowed. On the
"Include Service Packs Page," click "..." to browse to
the service pack extracted in Step 2. Notice that the service pack has
been added in the "Service Packs Included in this Deployment"
box. Click Configuration Complete.
- Follow
the instructions in the Deployment Wizard to complete the service pack
deployment.
To apply the service pack to an
existing administrative image
- From
the Autodesk Product Support website, download the service pack EXE file
to your local computer.
- On
the Start menu (Windows), click Run. Enter the following information and
click OK.
<local_drive:>\<patch_name>\ /e
<local_drive:>\< patch_name>.msp
- Browse
to the location of the existing Administrative image
- Select
Modify Deployment Name
- On
the "Begin Deployment" page, you may change the name of the
existing deployment in the "Specify the Deployment Name" box.
- Continue
through the Deployment Wizard, and Configure when allowed. On the
"Include Service Packs" page, click "..." to browse to
the service pack extracted in Step 2. Notice that the service pack has
been added in the "Service Packs Included in this Deployment"
box. Click Configuration Complete.
- Follow
the instructions in the Deployment Wizard to complete the service pack
deployment.
To Uninstall this Service pack
NOTE: Service
Pack cannot be uninstalled when the product is installed using a deployment.
Windows
2000 and XP
- On
the Start menu, click Settings > Control Panel.
- Double-click
"Add or Remove Programs".
- In
Windows XP, select the Show Updates option.
- Find
the appropriate service pack in the list of programs and click Remove.
Vista
- On
the Start menu, click Control Panel.
- Click
Programs.
- Click
Programs and Features.
- In
the Programs and Features window, in the left pane, click View Installed
Updates.
- Find
the appropriate service pack in the list of updates and click Uninstall.
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