Doug68
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| posted on 12/11/07 at 06:24 AM |
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Ha Ha! America land of the free (to consume)! Sorry couldn't resist 
You probably know this already but most of the CAD issues on Vista are to do with OpenGL.
OpenGL graphics acceleration used used by most serious CAD packages and in Vista Microsoft have wound back support for it, as they want to force
everyone to Direct X which is their technology.
This has been causing major headaches for all the CAD vendors I believe.
Doug. 1TG
Sports Car Builders WA
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RazMan
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| posted on 12/11/07 at 08:53 AM |
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Yep, Vista causes me a few problems to say the least, especially the 64 bit flavour. I upgraded my 'puter to a quad core beast with Vista and
have all sorts of problems with CAD progs. I think that is why most of the CAD companies have hastily brought out new versions which (hopefully) get
around these issues.
In my experience anything with '2007' or later in the title seem to work ok - anything else needs XP. Very frustrating if you have just
upgraded but you can alway dual boot your system for ultimate compatability.
[Edited on 12-11-07 by RazMan]
Cheers,
Raz
When thinking outside the box doesn't work any more, it's time to build a new box
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Doug68
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| posted on 12/11/07 at 10:57 AM |
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Dual boot??? Now THAT is old school Virtual Machines are the way to go these days.
Kb58, I suspect it's your ISP and not the NSA thats blocking the Torrent sites, probably from fear of being sued by Hollywood. There are sites
such as http://www.unblockanything.com/ that are designed to get around this.
[Edited on 12/11/07 by Doug68]
Doug. 1TG
Sports Car Builders WA
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ettore bugatti
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| posted on 12/11/07 at 12:58 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Doug68
I have to wonder though now and again if some software companies don't deliberately turn a blind eye to this sort of thing as some sort of
undercover marketing exercise.
Yes, They do.
I heared from someone that followed an official S****works training course that the tutor was handing out illegal copies to practise at home
The idea is that if employees are warm upped for the software they might convince their boss to buy it.
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kb58
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| posted on 12/11/07 at 02:13 PM |
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quote:
Kb58, I suspect it's your ISP and not the NSA thats blocking the Torrent sites, probably from fear of being sued by Hollywood. There
are sites such as http://www.unblockanything.com/ that are designed to get around this.
[Edited on 12/11/07 by Doug68]
It's blocked at the source. The bit-torrent front page comes up, but basically says, "I see you're from the U.S.; to avoid us any
potential unpleasentness for us, we are asking you to leave."
[Edited on 11/12/07 by kb58]
Mid-engine Locost - http://www.midlana.com
And the book - http://www.lulu.com/shop/kurt-bilinski/midlana/paperback/product-21330662.html
Kimini - a tube-frame, carbon shell, Honda Prelude VTEC mid-engine Mini: http://www.kimini.com
And its book -
http://www.lulu.com/shop/kurt-bilinski/kimini-how-to-design-and-build-a-mid-engine-sports-car-from-scratch/paperback/product-4858803.html
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RazMan
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| posted on 12/11/07 at 07:44 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Doug68
Dual boot??? Now THAT is old school Virtual Machines are the way to go these days.
I thought that too, but when I got all trendy and installed MS Virtual PC I found that XP was so clunky that I decided dual booting was much more
useable, especially in CAD progs - sometimes the old'un is the good'un 
Cheers,
Raz
When thinking outside the box doesn't work any more, it's time to build a new box
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WanchaiWarrior
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| posted on 12/11/07 at 10:45 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by kb58
quote:
Kb58, I suspect it's your ISP and not the NSA thats blocking the Torrent sites, probably from fear of being sued by Hollywood. There
are sites such as http://www.unblockanything.com/ that are designed to get around this.
[Edited on 12/11/07 by Doug68]
It's blocked at the source. The bit-torrent front page comes up, but basically says, "I see you're from the U.S.; to avoid us any
potential unpleasentness for us, we are asking you to leave."
[Edited on 11/12/07 by kb58]
Ive heard there is some software around that hides one's ISP, that might help
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jono_misfit
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| posted on 13/11/07 at 05:25 PM |
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Autodesk inventor you can get a free full copy if your a student that lasts for a year.
You may be able to download if your not a student but not 100% sure.
address is www.students.autodesk.com
worth a try
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40inches
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| posted on 20/11/07 at 04:14 PM |
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$50 for a DVD full of software+Nero+ISO Buster here
http://www.cdrbstore.net/software_list_dvd.php?CHAR=[r-zR-Z]
fast delivery and reliable, so I've heard
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