Don’t know how many of you have received your new software for 2012, either via download or DVD, I have. I had heard some significant changes were being considered for the software on the whole; don’t know if that ever panned out but…. Two things I do know for sure, however; 1.) Acad Elect. 2012 installed much faster than previous versions have, and, 2.) Just like 2009, 2010, and 2011 it has issues right out of the box as it were. I have been told by a number of individuals that I use Acad Elect at an extreme level in relation to its overall flexibility is it true not sure. But I can’t believe that the “strains” that I place on the software would result in the issue that I found after having installed the software, configured it to use our standard blocks, database etc., and drawn one vertical three wire bus. At this point mind you I will admit that the install, and configure process, was done very quickly, more so than in the past, due credit there.
The issue that I found was as follows; I drew, inserted, whichever term you prefer, the vertical three wire bus, then tried to connect a horizontal three wire bus to the vertical one. With snap enabled, set @ 1/16”, the visual “snap on” indicator was lit, essentially everything telling me snap was on and active, the cross hairs floated and as such were not on snap in any way shape or form, end result was the horizontal three wire bus was nowhere near snap. This only seems to occur when one tries to connect a bus to another bus; a single wire in empty space, to the bus, or a three wire bus into empty space, snap seems to works fine.
I have sent this to tech support, which has been able to reproduce the issue and have forwarded it onto the development team. In itself ‘stuff” happens, but I don’t understand how something so fundamental to the software package for years now could just not work. Am I the only one who uses these functions, I can’t believe that to be true however, no one seemingly found this during beta testing. A further puzzlement to me is that virtually every time I have registered issues with tech support with each new rendition of software sooner or later I am told that very few use the software the way I do. This is one thing that I find hard to fathom but if true why, when many Autodesk peoples have suggested that I should be part of the Beta testing process, haven’t they taken me up on my offer to do just that???
Oh well another version of Acad Elect installed and removed within one week because it is of no use to me. It only required one year but eventually 2010 was fixed enough that I could give it to my designers to use. So hope springs eternal for 2012.
Have fun my fellow Acad Electrical gurus once more unto the breach.
You need not to choose any screen. When you click on ACAD 2012 shortcut ACAD 2012 splash screen pops up. When you choose ACADE2012, ACADE 2012 profile and splash screen pops up. There are two distinct profiles for two products. Yes, there is only acad.exe for execution but the short cuts are defined with appropriate parameters to start the profiles with product you choose. See the attached screenshot of menus available.
Regards,
Mayuresh
I copied the acad.chm file from ACADE 2011\help to 2012, and it executes once I select AutoCAD Help. This will have to do.
The loading screen doesnt change, its is the ACAD 2012 loading screen for both AutoCAD 2012 - English and AutoCAD Electrical 2012. ACAD has the standard ACAD workspaces and ACADE has all standard and ACADE workspaces, so the electrical package does load all its relavent things, its just the splash screen that is the same for both.
This is strange. This could mean your startup commands may be corrupted. Please check following commands for ACAD 2012 and ACADE 2012. Follow steps below to check
1. Right click on the ACAD 2012 short cut and check properties. It should display following command in start in section of properties. If not try to replace them with folowing
""C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Acade 2012\UserDataCache\"
2. For ACADE 2012 it should be
""C:\Program Files\Autodesk\Acade 2012\acad.exe" /p <<ACADE>>"
If you see any issue still, try to repair product from ADD-Remove section. Please attach you commands here to let us know more about it. Above commands are displayed for product installed on "C:" Drive with standard paths.
Regards,
Mayuresh
I just repaired it, and the splash screen is still ACAD 2012. I am going to uninstall & reinstall it. I will reply with my results.
I really appreciate the help.
Hi,
I suppose your software has some problem because i cannot understand why there is no Help option in Options dialog box in your 2012 version. I believe uninstall & reinstall can resolve such problems, please let me know whether reinstall can resolve your problems.
Thanks for reporting!
Regards,
Kevin Li
Hi to everybody, Pls somebody could help me in theAutocad Electrical's installation ? Seems that there are some problems with .Net framework 4 MS software. I tried to uninstall all related .net framework from windows, and lets Autocad install it ! but the problem it's always the same the installation hangs on such .Net framework. Here below some log file
2011/3/31:18:54:55 PETER PETER-PC === Setup started on PETER-PC by PETER === 2011/3/31:18:54:55 PETER PETER-PC Launch 2011/3/31:18:55:34 PETER PETER-PC PageOpen LaunchDialog 2011/3/31:18:56:07 PETER PETER-PC PageOpen LicenseDialog 2011/3/31:18:56:09 PETER PETER-PC PageOpen ProductInfoDialog 2011/3/31:18:56:19 PETER PETER-PC PageOpen ProductSelectionDialog2 2011/3/31:18:56:49 PETER PETER-PC PageOpen FullProgressDialog 2011/3/31:18:56:50 PETER PETER-PC Installing .NET Framework Runtime 4.0 Language Pack: D:\downloads\ACAD_ELE_2012\Autodesk.AutoCAD.Electrical.2012.WIN32.WIN64-ISZ\3rdParty\NET\4\wcu\dotNetFramework\dotNetFx40LP_Full_x86_x64_1040.exe /q 2011/3/31:18:56:50 PETER PETER-PC Install .NET Framework Runtime 4.0 Language Pack Failed Installation aborted, Result=2
Thank you
When you are dealing with a company who's primary focus is Mechanical CAD and Inventor 3D modeling - what do you expect? They sold out many years of subject matter expertise to save money. It is painfully evident that your "Snap" issue is only one of many more to come. Good Luck...
Yes I tried,
The error messagge in the log file changes but the installation hangs ub the same point.
i tried also to uninstall completely .net software and let's Autocad install it, but without success.
I'll try to ask to the supplier help desk.
Regards
Try un-installing ALL versions of net, then install them in order from the Microsoft Windows Update website. You need to install the first one, reboot then the next one and so on until all of them are installed.
Regards Brad
Icemanau (NNTP handle: Brad Coleman
AutoCAD Electrical User and IT Hardware Support
Thank you for your reply, could you indicate me which is the first one and which is the last one ?
I already uninstalled all .net software by windows control panel, a let's Atuocad install it but nothing.
I tried also to installa a new version of .net software from windows update but the problem still live !
Thank you for yoour support
Is your Operation System installed the latest SP or Windows update ?
Regards,
Kevin Li
Hi,
In the %temp% folder, you should be able to find these files:
AutoCAD Electrical 2012 Install.log
AutoCAD Electrical 2012 Install (en-us).log
AutoCAD Electrical 2012 Setup.log
Are you able to zip up the files and post to this thread?
So that we can take a look at your problem.
Regards,
Kevin Li
here is AutoCAD Electrical 2012 Setup.log
I'm searching the others file you required.
Thanks a lot
Hi pierora,
I can see that the installation failed while installing .NET 4.0 Lang Pack runtime.
Is it a Spanish 64 bit operating system?
Can you please try running this exe to install .NET 4.0 Lang Pack?
..\3rdParty\NET\4\wcu\dotNetFramework\dotNetFx40LP_Full_x86_x64_1040.exe
Please let me know what error it will prompt when installing this language pack.
Thanks.
Regards,
Min Keng
I don't have the file you required here is the list of the available file in such dir.
Autocad Is in English Language, the O.S. is in Italian.
The available file are listed below.
Directory ..\ACAD_ELE_2012\Autodesk.AutoCAD.Electrical.2012.WIN32.WIN64-ISZ\3rdParty\NET\4\wcu\dotNetFramework 01/04/2011 10.51 <DIR> . 01/04/2011 10.51 <DIR> .. 08/12/2010 17.15 3.323.376 dotNetFx40LP_Full_x86_x64_1049.exe 19/03/2010 11.44 50.449.456 dotNetFx40_Full_x86_x64.exe
Hi pierora,
It seemed that there are missing files from the list of files.
The complete list of files are shown in the picture below.
Have you downloaded self extracting ACADE 2012 RTM?
Can you try to extract the contents to a shorter path and see if the complete list of files are being extracted?
Thanks,
Min Keng
Hi pierora,
From the list of files, it looks incomplete.
For the Italian .NET 4.0 Language Pack, you may download from here too:
You may want to try to download and install the .net 4.0 italian language pack first before installing AutoCAD Electrical 2012 again.
Regards,
Min Keng