Help with LDD2006

Yoy might try, what Stephen Ward did.

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Yoy might try, what Stephen Ward did.

Thanks Doug,

I completely missed that post!

Have a great weekend.

Yoy might try, what Stephen Ward did.

I am running AutoCAD Map 2006 with Carlson in a Win7 environment. It works but there are a few slight issues.
The layers manager is sad, when you change a color, it does not always stick. Keep hitting apply and it will work eventually. If you choose a bunch of layers at once and change the color it seems to work.
I use COPYBASE and PASTEBLOCK alot. It lags, so I've had to change my style a bit.
There are a few other fun issues to deal with, but all in all it works.

Proceed with Caution!!!!!

Proceed with caution!!!!!! I have gotten LDD2i to run on Win7-64bit. In fact, it runs great, but if I let the computer reboot or shutdown I lose the install. When the computer reboots something gets changed that causes LDD to fail and nothing except an uninstall and reinstall has fixed it so far. For the time being I have copied the install disks onto an 8GB thumb drive. This allows me to uninstall and reinstall LDD in about 15 minutes. Long term I hope to figure out what is getting corrupted by the reboots. Not a perfect solution, but one I can live with until I transition to my new machine with Carlson 2012 and run LDD in XP virtual machine.

There's a software called Longbow Converter that some people have used with newer versions of AutoCAD. I think to fools the installer into allowing you to load 32 bit AutoCAD onto a 64 bit OS and makes a few other changes that are supposed to make it stable but it costs $40 I believe. Good Luck, running AutoCAD where it was not certified to run is not for the faint of heart.

Proceed with Caution!!!!!

I suggest that you make a back up of all important files onto an external drive. Then, disconnect your existing internal hard drive and install a new drive. Do a clean install of Win7-64 on the new drive and let it do all of the updates prior to loading the AutoCAD. If the install acts like mine you'll have the option of reinstalling the old drive to get work done and re-install the new drive when you have time to tinker with it.

LDD 2i on Win 7 64 Bit

LDD 2i on Win 7 64 Bit install process
1) Turn off User Access Control
2) Reboot
3) Copy your LDD disk to a temp folder on your Hard drive
4) Right Click on the setupe.exe in the temp folder, choose run as administrator
5) Install to C:ProgramsLand Desktop 3 (Or what ever you want) Do not install to Porgrams Files or Program Files (x86)
6) Only install one Item at a time, my disk contains Civil, Survey, Raster so unchek all of those. You will get a error that it didn't install. But it did.
7) Run setup again as administrator, repeat for each module.
8) Hopefully this worked. Sometimes it does sometimes it doesn't.
Your Mileage may vary.
Avoid double clicking on dwg files this can cause issues. Always use the Desktop Icon
Good Luck!!

Thanks you guy’s, gonna take Mr. Wards advice about an additional drive, then try what Mr. Swim suggested.

Y’all have a great weekend and thanks again.

Swim4Life - Many Thanks

I first tried your step-by-step and got hung up when I tried to install the LDD2i-sp2.

LDD2i and Survey2i were loading and running fine but the service pack was giving an invalid serial number error and kicking out without installing. A few iterations of uninstall/reinstall allowed me to figure out that forcing LDD to install in the non-standard directory was causing the service pack not to be able to verify my serial number. I left the User Access Control disabled, installed each item once from my thumb drive using "run as administrator". Everything seemed stable so I copied in my express tool folder, my custom fonts, plot styles, etc. I torture tested it by doing several Powerdowns, checking each time to see if LDD would still start, then I did the same with a series of Restarts, and for the finale I ran Windows Update. So far it's stable.

Disabling the User Access Control seemed to be the key difference on my machine.

Thanks a bunch!!

Swim4Life - Many Thanks

Ahh..

My version has all the service packs already on the disk.
The one thing that LDD likes to do is write to the directory it is installed to.
Win 7 & Vista disable writing to the Program Files after a program is installed.
And if you use mapped network drives LDD will crash on open if the drive that contains your projects is not available. To use my laptop in both the office and field I have
to use the dos command subst to create a fake network drive on my local disk.