AutoCAD Electrical 2021 – Adding New Catalogue Content to AutoCAD Electricals’ SQL Database

By Miles Nicholson

The Cadline Localiser provides additional manufacturers content that can be migrated into the Catalog Database. New versions of software such as AutoCAD® Electrical 2021 have additional manufacturers content that can also be migrated into the catalogue database by using the Project ribbon tab > Migration Utility. This utility however is ONLY for databases in the Microsoft® Access MDB file format!

How do you get the additional content from the Cadline Localiser, or indeed new content from a newer version of AutoCAD® Electrical into your existing AutoCAD® Electrical SQL database?

First of all, you should have installed the Autodesk® Content Migration Utility. If you haven't, then select Install Tools & Utilities > Autodesk Content Migration Utility from the AutoCAD® Electrical media setup:

You can use the Project ribbon tab > Migration Utility to merge the <<manufacturer name>>.mdb files into one mdb file if you wish before you start. The instructions for doing this are described in the Installation & Operational Guide for the Cadline Localiser. This simply means you only have one mdb to migrate into SQL, OR you can pick and choose the <<manufacture name>>.mdb file you want and migrate directly into SQL, one at a time. It doesn’t make any difference which method you pick although the SQL importing of data is quicker.

Select  to browse to the SQL server location:

Select 

• Select the additional <<manufacturers name>>.mdb from the Cadline Localiser installation
• Select the catalogue database name defined in SQL
• Select the additional <<manufacturers name_footprint lookup>>.mdb from the Cadline Localiser installation
• Select the footprint database name defined in SQL

e.g.

Select 

The following dialogue will be displayed:

Select  to repeat the process for additional manufacturers part and footprint databases.