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AutoCAD Electrical 2021 Migrate Settings from Previous Version

Anonymous — Mon, 30 Mar 2020 19:36:50 GMT

How do I properly migrate my settings from AutoCAD Electrical 2020 to AutoCAD Electrical 2021? I don't see the "Migrate from Previous Year" that everyone says should be available in the windows start menu. When installing that box was checked, but I was not prompted past that to specific to migrate from ACADE 2020.

What's the proper way/recommendations for installing a new version/year of AutoCAD Electrical? It seems like the responses for migrating settings always default to how generic AutoCAD/AutoCAD LT is done, but from my understanding ACADE is different and cannot be done the same way.

Any feedback or potential solutions are greatly appreciated! 🙂

Re: AutoCAD Electrical 2021 Migrate Settings from Previous Version

rhesusminus — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 12:58:24 GMT

If they are installed on the same computer, you should be able to select this:ct thi

Re: AutoCAD Electrical 2021 Migrate Settings from Previous Version

Anonymous — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 19:48:24 GMT

What about system variables? Does any of this bring system variable settings over? Or do you need to use something else to get those?

Re: AutoCAD Electrical 2021 Migrate Settings from Previous Version

rhesusminus — Tue, 31 Mar 2020 20:13:02 GMT

"Note: Some versions of AutoCAD do not have a settings migration utility. Migrating settings for these versions is not a supported process."

https://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/learn-explore/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/How-to-migrate-settings-in-AutoCAD.html

So.. AutoCAD Electrical is one of those 😄

Re: AutoCAD Electrical 2021 Migrate Settings from Previous Version

Hightower_AV — Mon, 26 Jun 2023 11:32:59 GMT

I'm a bit late to this but thank you Trond for this information. I'd always stayed away from the Migrate utility as I assumed it was the Content Migration and I didn't want to convert my databases to SQL. I am currently upgrading our install from 2020 to 2024 and this has helped a lot. 🙂