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What’s New in AutoCAD Electrical 2021 Toolset
The following is an overview of the changes made to AutoCAD Electrical 2021 toolset.
AutoCAD Electrical 2021 toolset provides a set of enhancements based on customer feedback, surveys, and analytic data that prioritize our efforts. Several features modernize and streamline frequently used features across many customer disciplines. The drawing format for this release continues to be AutoCAD 2018. For developers, this is an API-breaking release.
Global Search in the Catalog
One of the top voted ideas in the AutoCAD Electrical Ideastation is now available in this release. With the Global Search functionality, the Catalog Browser can now search for catalog data across the tables.
In the Catalog Browser, click Global Search to search data in all the available tables.
The Catalog Global Search dialog box displays the results of the global search.
Note: Sub-assembly items, as defined by an ASSEMBLYLIST value, are included in the search results. The global search results are based from the CATALOG, MANUFACTURER, and ASSEMBLYCODE column records.
Additional Manufacturer Catalog Content
Manufacturer Catalog content that were released as updates in earlier versions, are now included in AutoCAD Electrical 2021 toolset installer. The content updates include the catalog data from Eaton and Siemens.
Additional Siemens PLC catalog information for S7-1500 PLC series is also included in AutoCAD Electrical 2021 toolset.
Icon Optimization
AutoCAD Electrical 2021 toolset has optimized the background colors with the icon colors to provide the optimum contrast without distraction from the drawing area, where you’re usually focused.
Other Enhancements
- Project Database ServicesImproved stability when working with the project database services.
- Reports
- LISP function for Bill of Material panel now creates a valid XML file in the German version.
- Component reports now follow the Sort options in the report format (SET) file.
- Improved stability when generating reports.
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- Project SetupWhen opening the project, the directory now follows the path specified by the WD_PICKPRJDLG variable in WD.ENV environment file.
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- Insert Component and Wires
- The pin assignment of the circuit breaker parent now respects the correct number of child contacts in the drawing.
- Improved stability of the fan-out workflow.
- Wire import now brings the size and color properties of the wire.
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- Panel Components
- Wire numbers that are inserted using Insert Terminal (Schematic List) are now displayed in the panel terminals.
- More stability when inserting panel components.
- PDF PublishingIn the published PDFs, the hyperlinks with hexagonal arrow style now point to the correct references.
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Note: AutoCAD Electrical 2021 toolset leverages most of the new features from AutoCAD. For more information, refer to the What’s New in AutoCAD 2021 topic in Help.
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What’s New in AutoCAD Electrical 2020 Toolset
The following is an overview of the changes made to AutoCAD Electrical 2020 toolset.
Refreshed Icons
As part of our continuous efforts to provide a great visual experience to our customers, the AutoCAD Electrical 2020 toolset release has new ‘flat designed’ icons in the user interface for command window and toolbars.
High Resolution (4K) Monitor Support
AutoCAD Electrical user interfaces are now optimized to work with high resolution monitors. As a result, dialog boxes such as the Bill of Material, Electrical Audit, Footprint Lookup and Schematic Terminal, dialog boxes scale correctly when you increase the text size in Windows display properties.
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New Dark Theme
Your user interface is obviously something that you use all the time. Past customer feedback repeatedly indicated that we needed to make significant changes to improve the clarity and crispness of the dark theme. Similar sharpening was also applied to the light theme as well.
Autodesk AutoCAD Electrical 2021 Free Download
As you can see, we optimized the background colors with the icon colors to provide the optimum contrast without distracting from the drawing area, where you’re usually focused.
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PDF Publishing
A hyperlink is now available in the cross-references within the published PDF document for a few scenarios.
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Performance
Performance improvement when using the schematic list for multiple inserts of panel footprint.
PLC
You are now able to correctly generate the PLC I/O drawings when using the spreadsheet containing BREAK.
When using the spreadsheet to PLC I/O utility, AutoCAD Electrical toolset now honors the module box properties from the PLC database.
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What’s New in AutoCAD Electrical 2019 Toolset
he following is an overview of the changes made to AutoCAD Electrical 2019 toolset.
Autodesk AutoCAD Electrical 2021 Free Download
Refreshed Icons
As part of our continuous efforts to provide a great visual experience to our customers, AutoCAD Electrical 2019 toolset release has new ‘flat designed’ icons in the user interface for Ribbon, Status Bar, Quick Access Toolbar (QAT) and Application Menu.
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High Resolution (4K) Monitor Support
Some more of the product’s User Interfaces are now optimized for high resolution monitors. As a result, the following dialog boxes and palettes scale correctly when you increase the text size in Windows display properties.
- PLC Parametric Selection dialogs
- PLC Database File Editor dialogs
- Insert/Edit Terminal Symbol dialogs
- Terminal Strip Editor dialogs
- Set Wire type dialog
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DWG Compare
With the DWG Compare feature, you can highlight the differences in model space between two revisions of the same drawing or different drawings. Using colors, you can differentiate between the objects that are unique to each drawing and the objects that are in common. You can exclude objects from being compared by turning off their layers.
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SDI Support
SDI support is added back in to the product.
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Catalog Browser
The Category sort order in Catalog Browser is enhanced in SQL mode.
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Footprint
Wildcard support for Assembly Code is enhanced in footprint database.
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Reports
The BOM report is enhanced to support double byte chars when Catalog Browser is in SQL mode.
| System requirements for AutoCAD 2021 including Specialized Toolsets (Windows) | |
|---|---|
| Operating System | 64-bit Microsoft® Windows® 11, Windows 10, and Windows 8.1. See Autodesk’s Product Support Lifecycle for support information. |
| Processor | Basic: 2.5–2.9 GHz processor Recommended: 3+ GHz processor Multiple processors: Supported by the application |
| Memory | Basic: 8 GB Recommended: 16 GB |
| Display Resolution | Conventional Displays: 1920 x 1080 with True Color High Resolution & 4K Displays: Resolutions up to 3840 x 2160 supported on Windows 10, 64-bit systems (with capable display card) |
| Display Card | Basic: 1 GB GPU with 29 GB/s Bandwidth and DirectX 11 compliant Recommended: 4 GB GPU with 106 GB/s Bandwidth and DirectX 11 compliant |
| Disk Space | 7.0 GB |
| Network | Deployment via Deployment Wizard. The license server and all workstations that will run applications dependent on network licensing must run TCP/IP protocol. Either Microsoft® or Novell TCP/IP protocol stacks are acceptable. Primary login on workstations may be Netware or Windows. In addition to operating systems supported for the application, the license server will run on Windows® Server 2012 R2, Windows Server 2016, and Windows Server 2019 editions. |
| Pointing Device | MS-Mouse compliant |
| .NET Framework | .NET Framework version 4.8 or later |
| System requirements for AutoCAD for Mac 2021 | |
|---|---|
| Operating System | Apple® macOS® Monterey v12 (requires Update 2021.2) Apple macOS Big Sur v11 (requires Update 2021.1) Apple macOS Catalina v10.15 Apple macOS Mojave v10.14 Apple macOS High Sierra v10.13 |
| Model | Basic: Apple Mac Pro® 4.1, MacBook Pro® 5.1, iMac® 8.1, Mac mini® 3.1, MacBook Air®, MacBook® 5.1 Recommended: Apple Mac® models supporting Metal Graphics Engine Apple Mac models with M series chip are supported under Rosetta 2 mode. |
| CPU Type | 64-bit Intel CPU Recommended: Intel Core i7 or higher |
| Memory | Basic: 4GB Recommended: 8GB or higher |
| Display Resolution | Basic: 1280 x 800 display High Resolution: 2880 x 1800 with Retina Display |
| Disk Space | 3 GB free disk space for download and installation |
| Pointing Device | Apple-compliant Mouse, Apple-compliant Trackpad, Microsoft-compliant mouse |
| Display Card | Recommended: Mac native installed graphics cards |
| Disk Format | APFS, APFS(Encrypted), Mac OS Extended (Journaled), Mac OS Extended (Journaled, Encrypted) |
| Additional Requirements for large datasets, point clouds, and 3D modeling | |
|---|---|
| Memory | 8 GB RAM or more |
| Disk Space | 6 GB free hard disk available, not including installation requirements |
| Display Card | 1920 x 1080 or greater True Color video display adapter; 128 MB VRAM or greater; Pixel Shader 3.0 or greater; Direct3D®-capable workstation class graphics card. |
Specialized Toolsets (Windows Only)
| Toolset | Additional Requirements |
|---|---|
| AutoCAD Map 3D | Disk Space: 16GBMemory: 16GBDatabase & FDO Requirements (see below) |
| AutoCAD Electrical | Disk Space: 12GBMicrosoft Access Database Engine 2016 Redistributable (x64) |
| AutoCAD Architecture | Disk Space: 12GB |
| AutoCAD MEP | Disk Space: 12GB |
| AutoCAD Plant 3D | Disk Space: 10GB |
| AutoCAD Mechanical | Disk Space: 7GB |
| AutoCAD Raster Design | Disk Space: 1GB |
AutoCAD Map 3D Additional Requirements (Windows Only)
| FDO Provider Requirements | ||
|---|---|---|
| FDO Provider | Certified With | Notes |
| Microsoft SQL Server | Microsoft SQL Server 2014 Standard and Enterprise Editions Microsoft SQL Server 2016 Standard and Enterprise Editions Microsoft SQL Server 2017 Standard and Enterprise Editions Microsoft SQL Server 2019 Standard and Enterprise Editions | Industry Models also support the versions of Microsoft SQL Server listed on the left. |
| Oracle 11g Release 2 | Oracle 11.2.0.4.0 Oracle Express, Standard, and Enterprise Editions | Industry Models support the same Oracle versions as listed on the left. |
| Oracle 12c Release 2 | Oracle 12.2.0.1.0 Standard Edition and Enterprise Edition | Industry Models support the same Oracle versions as listed on the left. |
| Oracle 18c | Oracle 18.3 Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition 2 | Industry Models support the same Oracle versions as listed on the left. |
| Oracle 19c | Oracle 19.3 Enterprise Edition and Standard Edition 2 | Industry Models support the same Oracle versions as listed on the left. |
| Raster | DEM, JPG2K, DTED, MrSID®, ECW, PNG, ESRI® Grid, TIFF, JPEG, ESRI® ASCII | |
| Autodesk SDF | 3.0 | |
| ESRI ArcGIS | ArcGIS® 10.7.1 ArcGIS 10.6.1 ArcGIS 10.5 | This Provider requires ESRI licensed components to be installed on client system. |
| MySQL | 8.0 | |
| ODBC | The FDO ODBC provider has been tested with corresponding versions of ODBC drivers that are shipped with the relevant supported operating systems version. | |
| OGC WMS | WMS 1.3.0 | |
| OGC WMTS | WMTS 1.0.0 | |
| OGC WFS | WFS 2.0.0 | |
| SQLite | SQLite 3.27.2 | |
| PostgresSQL | PostgreSQL 9.5 + PostGIS 2.2 |
| ODBC Drivers | Tested Versions |
|---|---|
| Microsoft® Access® Driver (*.mdb, *.accdb) | Microsoft Access database engine 2016 (English) 16.00.4513.1000 |
| Microsoft® Excel® Driver (*.xls, *xlsx, *.xlsm, *.xlsb) | Microsoft Access database engine 2016 (English) 16.00.4513.1000 |
| MySQL® ODBC 8.0 Driver | 8.00.13.00 |
| SQL Server® | 10.00.18362.01 |
| Oracle® in OraClient19Home1 | 19.00.00.00 |
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