

Why should I upgrade to a newer version that was obviously written by people who don't even understand the concept of EFFICIENCY.īTW this is something that is extremely irritating and it's a worldwide phenomena. The menu system awkward to learn and in many cases it is faster to simply type a command than dig through multiple layers to get to the desired command. Looked at Autocad 2015 and was not the least bit impressed. I have also been adding to and refining a personal menu file that saves me an untold number of mouse clicks and menu layering.Īs a result of this I am blazing fast on Autocad 2000.

As a result I prefer a text based menu system. I also have this amazing ability to something called READING. I have been using Autocad since version 2.52. If you were then you would be using a newer versions. If you are still using the Acad LT 2000 version it surely tells me you are no loyal (Autodesk) customer. 'Autodesk should make an installed for loyal customers.' I understand your frustration but the 2000 version was released in 1999, that's roughly 17 years ago and you think that Autodesk is just going to keep old products running to support new operating systems that are a year or 2 old? Think about that? We can say the same back to you and state get out of the mid 90s technology and upgrade. If 2000 will RUN on Win 10, Autodesk surely can make an installer for people like me. Why upgrade to a new version of Acad when I dont need to? If its in the installer, Autodesk should make an installed for loyal customers. Evidently it will run since I already did. It still ran.īought a new one with Win 10. I had it installed on XP and eventually upgraded OS to Win 7 and then 8 and finally Win 10. You are talking about a 17 year old application. My opinion I wouldn't invest in trying to keep Acad 2000 going. You could spend hours trying to get this to work and activation and in the end it may be cheaper for you to just purchase a newer version of of the product. You may not be able to activate your Acad 2000 software depending on the history of your serial #. My only additional thought is the activation. Here's an about installing Acad 2000 on Windows 7 through Win 10 but it requires you to purchase LONGBOW Converter. Does anybody know if there are any Win 8/64bit - AutoCAD 2010 issues to be aware of? Join Date: 2000-12 Location: 0,0,0 The Origin Posts: 8,569. I just picked up a full install of Windows 8. The problem we were having was with the forced installation of Netmeeting from the AutoCAD installation disc. How to get AutoCAD 2000 to install on a Windows 7 64 bit operating system.
