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Friday, April 4, 2008

Modifying the 2008 Product Installation to install on 64bit OS

I just got a new laptop which of course is Vista 64-bit OS.  When I went to install AutoCAD Architecture 2008, it said it could not be installed.  So I searched the Autodesk Discussion Groups and found a discussion on this very topic.  Below is an excerpt from that discussion that has what you need to do to get AutoCAD Architecture 2008 installed on 64-bit OS.   It's amazing that I have not run into this until I actually tried to install it...I guess it just shows how many people are not using 64-bit OS's.

Note: These instructions use AutoCAD Architecture as the example, but can be used for AutoCAD MEP as well..

  1. Download and install Orca from Microsoft.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/255905

  1. Copy the contents of the DVD to your hard drive or a network folder.
  2. Backup the files of the product .msi (ex: ACA.msi) and Setup.ini
  3. Edit the product .msi (ex: ACA.msi) with Orca and delete the action found in the table
    "InstallExecuteSequence" that is called "CheckFor64BitOS" Delete the same
    line under table "CustomAction"
  4. Save and close the product .msi (ex: ACA.msi)
  5. Edit the Setup.ini with Notepad. Delete the line under
    "#==================== Platform Requirement" that is labeled
    "PLATFORM=NO_WOW_64_PROCESS"
  6. Double-click the Setup.exe and you should be able to install without any
    problems.
  7. If you leave the default paths for the installation of the content, this may or may not apply.
    1. Some support paths under the "Files" tab of the configuration dialog box
      have incorrect paths. The installer adds and extra "\AppData\AppData" to
      some support paths located in the user profile. For example the Main
      Customization File's path is listed as
      "C:\Users\%username%\AppData\AppData\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\ACD-A
      2008\enu\Support\ADT" when it should be
      "C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Roaming\Autodesk\ACD-A 2008\enu\Support\ADT"
  8. Fix the incorrect paths (if necessary), hit apply, and you are good to go.

3 comments:

marj said...

hi dwayne!

may i ask if this process is also applicable for autocad 2009? we're editing the SEtup.ini but can't find for the "PLATFORM=NO_WOW_64_PROCESS".. thank you and good day..

Unknown said...

FYI: The process is different for each version of AutoCAD all the way up to AutCAD 2011. I used this software in the end http://www.longbowsoftware.com to do the job for my 2008 and 2011. It saved me a lot of headache! ;-)

Hope it helps you guys

Unknown said...

im failing to install ACA2014 on a XP os , it never goes past the initialization stage, it always ends like this

2014/3/27:22:26:15 MemeGtr EQUIPMENT Launch
2014/3/27:22:26:17 MemeGtr EQUIPMENT Install CustomCallback Info Invoking custom callback for details: [SETUP] CB_FUNC=CustomPlatformCheck CB_SOURCE=C:\DOCUME~1\MemeGtr\CONFIG~1\Temp\_AIFE.tmp\Setup\AcSetup.dll
2014/3/27:22:26:17 MemeGtr EQUIPMENT Install CustomCallback Info Custom callback response: Status=0 SUCCECSS Title= Message= URLTitle= URLLink=
2014/3/27:22:26:24 MemeGtr EQUIPMENT === Setup ended ===