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    Posted: 12.May.2014 at 19:28
We are a french reseller and we have upgraded our customer computer from xp pro to vista pro (before if possible / necessary to 7 pro)

The customer's autocad 2002 (the full version , not the lt version) does not work anymore .. it sees the former licence (number and licensee name) but refuses to start (c-dilla error)

I have try various solutions including reinstalling separately cd-dilla 3.24 or 3.27 .. nothing works

Does someone knows if autocad 2002 can be used on vista ? on 7 ?

If yes what is the trick ?

looking forward your help

Patrick
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Points: 208 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12.May.2014 at 20:11
There have been lots of problems w/ v2002 & other legacy versions running on Win 7.
One solution with favorable reports is to run a Windows XP mode virtual system on your windows 7 box and install the program there.
Another here: http://www.longbowsoftware.com/
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Points: 7175 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 12.May.2014 at 20:25
Does your client do any 3D work?


Edited by John Connor - 12.May.2014 at 20:26
"Humans have a strength that cannot be measured. This is John Connor. If you are reading this, you are the resistance."

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Points: 4 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13.May.2014 at 17:43
Originally posted by John Connor John Connor wrote:

Does your client do any 3D work?


Tks for helping us

They can do without 3d
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Points: 4 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13.May.2014 at 17:53
Originally posted by Robert_D Robert_D wrote:


Another here: http://www.longbowsoftware.com/


Tks for tyring helping us

I looked at longbow (tks for the info) site for the longbow converter

Unfortunaltly there is no trial version on their site (to be sure it 100% worked)
Does it exist ? it it a solution somewhere to test it ?
Looking forward your answer

Patrick
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Points: 7175 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 13.May.2014 at 18:02
Since they do not do any 3D work the best solution would be to migrate over to the FREE 2D AutoCAD clone by Dassault Systemes called Draftsight.  Did I mention it was FREE?  They have both 32-bit and 64-bit versions available and there is even a FREE Getting Started guide in PDF form that can be downloaded as well.  And it is all FREE!  FREE!  Get the idea?

It's so close to AutoCAD that after a day's use it will be natural to them.  And it reads the DWG file format (up to 2010 version) and writes to it as well.
"Humans have a strength that cannot be measured. This is John Connor. If you are reading this, you are the resistance."

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Points: 1494 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: 14.May.2014 at 07:25
John and patrick, Draftsight reads also the AutoCAD 2013 files too and when you do a "save as" it automatically saves the file in AutoCAD 2010 ( we have AutoCAD Mechanical 2012 and not yet 2013 or ... ).
It's so close to AutoCAD ( and free ) that I don't see it as anything else than a Solidworks/Dassault way to f.... AutoCAD. 
Working on draftsight is : remember an AutoCAD command, try it and you have 85% chances to make it work the same.
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