I have (licensed to me - not my employer) a copy of each of the following:
Land Desktop 2007 and Autodesk Survey which I currently have running on an XP Desktop
Carlson XML (stand alone) that I have currently running on a Virtual Machine inside of a Windows 7 Laptop
I need to boost the memory on the desktop, but both programs seem to perform OK where they are on each machine.
I pretty much just use these programs for working at home when the weathers brutal, or if I need to do something on the weekends.
I'm considering getting Longbow and moving everything to the laptop, although I have a MalWare Bytes lifetime support for XP edition on the desktop, so I'm in no rush. I just figure that one day that machine will finally go.
I may upgrade the Carlson next year when the new edition comes out. I will probably never upgrade the LDD to Civil 3D, and if I ever really need it, I would get a subscription.
My question is whether Longbow is worth the effort. If I got it should I uninstall the existing Carlson running on the virtual machine and then re-install it through Longbow? Would Carlson XML (stand alone) play well with LDD 2007 through Longbow?
I know these are pretty old programs but they do a good job for me when I need them. I'm not living off them on a daily basis.
Thanks in advance for the advice
"My question is whether Longbow is worth the effort"
Since XP has retired I was forced to upgrade to 7.
Don't know anything about Carlson, but LDD 2006 (thats all we use) works perfectly in win 7, 32/64 bit using Longbow. Haven't tried it in win 8.x.
Longbows software is great, and very reasonably priced. I would highly recommend it!
B-)
I have a copy of LDD3 running on a Windows 8.1 laptop. No problem. I'm thinking that you don't need any 3rd party help to get your stuff to run on W7.
I used Longbow to install AutoCAD LDD Map 2008 32 bit on Windows 7 64 bit and it works fine for me.
Peter