Autocad electrical

[Anonymous]

Good day. i have downloaded auto cad electrical for the 30 day trial, when opening auto cad it seems its the normal one, is there a button i should go and click to change it to auto cad electrical?

[Icemanau]

First of all, make sure you started ACAD Electrical and not plain ACAD.

Electrical is basically a set of commands, menus and functions which is loaded on top of plain ACAD.

When you install Electrical it installs the base ACAD program as well as the Electrical add ons.

You will find that you have ended up with two identical ACAD icons under AutoCAD Electrical in the start menu and possibly the desktop. The first one starts the plain ACAD while the second starts ACAD Electrical.

If you did start the program using the Electrical version, make sure you are in the 'ACADE 2D Drafting and Annotation' workspace and if not, swap to it using the gear icon in the bottom right corner of the ACAD window.

Regards Brad

[Anonymous]

Thank you sir.

I only have one icon, so i suppose it only downloaded the plain auto cad. I
have the 2019 student version, can that be why?

[Icemanau]

You may have downloaded the plain ACAD version, however looking at the educational side, Electrical 2019 IS available on the educational licence.

Type ABOUT on the command line and this should tell you what you have installed.

With Electrical, it should show up like this.

 If it doesn't show the word Electrical at the top, you haven't installed the correct package.

Regards Brad