This readme contains important information regarding the installation and contents of this Service Pack. It is recommended that you read the entire document before you apply the Service Pack to your product. For reference save this document to your hard drive or print a copy.
Contents
You can apply this Service Pack to the following Autodesk products running on all supported operating systems and languages. Be sure to install the correct Service Pack for your software.
32-bit Product |
Service Pack |
Autodesk AutoCAD Electrical 2015 | Ace2015_SWL_SP2.exe |
64-bit Product |
Service Pack |
Autodesk AutoCAD Electrical 2015 | Ace2015_SWL_SP2_x64.exe |
This Service Pack can be applied to AutoCAD Electrical 2015 installed as a standalone application as well as AutoCAD Electrical 2015 installed from Autodesk Product Design Suite 2015.
Note:
- Service Pack 2 also includes all of the updates from Service Pack 1.
- Service Pack 2 can be installed on either the original version or the Service Pack 1 version of AutoCAD Electrical 2015.
As a result of the detailed information that we received from customers who used the Customer Error Reporting Utility, several problems were identified and fixed. This service pack also includes problems fixed by Autodesk AutoCAD 2015 Service Pack 2. Updates have been made in the following commands and features:
Project Manager
Service Pack 1
- Occasional crashes when loading, switching, opening and closing projects in Project Manager.
Service Pack 2
- Occasional crashes when operating and refreshing in Project Manager.
Migration Utility
Service Pack 2
- Occasional crash when copying the Catalog database in Migration Utility for the 2nd time in 32bit Operation System.
- Occasional crash when migrating some special catalog database.
Symbol Builder
Service Pack 2
- Occasional crashes when linking AutoCAD Electrical drawings to Microsoft® Word document.
General
Service Pack 2
- Occasional crashes when the driver ‘AceRedist’ is missing.
This service pack also includes Autodesk AutoCAD 2015 Service Pack 2. The following defects have been fixed by AutoCAD Electrical 2015 Service Pack 2:
Catalog Browser
Service Pack 2
- “\” is added when assigning the catalog in the Edit Component dialog if there is quotes in the TEXTVALUE for the catalog number.
Migration Utility
Service Pack 1
- Certain catalog databases cannot be migrated successfully.
- Certain Pin List items are missing after migration.
PDF Publish
Service Pack 2
- PDF hyperlinks are not established if the cross reference is using %A and %B and the drawings are in subfolders.
- Memory overflows when publishing PDF with hyperlinks if the cross reference separator in text option is empty in the project/drawing settings.
Panel Layout
Service Pack 2
- Wire annotations are not maintained sometime when user tries to change the format.
- Footprint Database Editor appears empty if manufacturer's table name contains a space.
PLC
Service Pack 2
- Insert Parametric PLC does not work correctly when trying to insert the broken module of PLC in the next drawing.
Project Manager
Service Pack 2
- Catalog Database is wrongly used when using the renamed wd.env for the project.
Project Properties
Service Pack 1
- Lower case is not supported in the replaceable parameters in project and drawing properties.
Symbol Builder
Service Pack 2
- Symbol Builder Attribute Editor changes to empty after running Test Block in Symbol Builder.
Report
Service Pack 2
- Table style attributes fields for Title and Header are not honored in reports when defined using new table style.
TSE
Service Pack 2
- Additional terminals are created in TSE when moving terminals in the drawing.
Title Block
Service Pack 2
- Title block update in the active drawing only updates the first attribute if there are multiple attributes map to same value.
General
Service Pack 2
- AutoCAD Electrical commands do not work when SDI is set to 1.
Security Hotfix
Service Pack 1
- This Service Pack includes the Autodesk AutoCAD Security Hotfix. This Service Pack can be applied whether that security hotfix was originally applied to your system or not.
- If you have Autodesk ReCap 2015 installed together with AutoCAD Electrical 2015, please install Autodesk ReCap 2015 Hotfix 1 via Autodesk Application Manager.
Note: The Autodesk 360 (AdSync) patch will automatically be installed with this Service Pack.
Before you install this Service Pack, review the following information:
Back Up Custom Files
It is recommended that you back up all custom CUIX, MNR, and MNL files before you apply this Service Pack.
Administrative Privileges
During installation, you will be prompted for the original installation media or a network image. To apply this Service Pack, you must have administrative privileges to install and uninstall products.
Network Deployment
Administrators can deploy this Service Pack over a network using the Deployment Wizard.
About Your Product
After you install the Service Pack, updated product information displays in the About dialog box.
Reboot
After you install this Service Pack, it is recommended that you reboot your system even if you are not prompted to do so.
The following Microsoft Windows command line switches are built into this Service Pack:
Instructions about how to use the /e command line switch are included in the installation procedures that follow.
Follow these instructions to install this Service Pack on a single computer.
Follow these instructions to install this Service Pack on multiple computers using your local network.
Note: Installation through your local network using the CAD Manager Control Utility is not supported for this Service Pack.
The following distribution method applies only to administrative images created with the Deployment wizard. After you complete these procedures, subsequent deployments of your product will include this Service Pack.
The patch (Service Pack) file that you download contains an MSP (Microsoft Patch) file, which you extract from the executable file using the /e (extract) switch.
<local_drive:>\<patch_name> /e <local_drive:>\< patch_name>.msp
Note: When the AutoCAD Electrical Service Pack is included in a deployment, the deployment will install the Service Pack without the update files for Autodesk 360.
Note: The extraction of MSP from the service pack executable requires VC++ runtime redistributable 2010. Please make sure it is installed before extracting the MSP file.
Windows 7 / Windows 8
We want to express our appreciation to all our customers who identified these issues and reported them to us. Their reports gave us the opportunity to improve the product for everyone's benefit. We also thank you for your continued business, and for your feedback regarding this release.
Respectfully,
The Autodesk AutoCAD Electrical Product Team
Copyright ©2014 Autodesk, Inc.