software

[coral diver]

Have anybody tryed lodding Office 03 on the new Vista system did you it work the new version of Office is like $ 400 :eek:

[DaveMorris]

I will be staying as far away from Vista as I can. I do a lot of my work in AutoCAD and it runs literally 50x slower on a Vista machine. I would hope that Office 2003 would work on it, but don't hold your breath.

[coral diver]

90% of laptop's got the Vista on it already wife's just got one yesterday felt like no choice but to get it with Vista think like they recalled everthing and reloaded it with Vista sucks

[RussM]

I work for a MS partner, so I have ready access to all the latest stuff. I put Vista Ultimate on a P4-2.8Ghz 1.5GB RAM notebook, just to check it out. Installed and ran Office Pro 2003 just fine, although a tad slow. Removed OFF2003 and put on Office Pro 2007 - it was slower than molasses in January! It was swapping to virtual memory w/ just Word, Excel, and Outlook loaded. Tested a bunch of other apps, and found few compatibility issues, but almost everything ran slow.

I repeated the whole experiment on the same notebook w/ Vista Enterprise. Without all the extra crap that's in Vista, and after some service minimization, both Office suites ran quite a bit better. I had to load quite a few apps to trigger any swapping. Still too slow compared to XP in the same system.

I'm going to do just like I did before converting all of my machines from Win2k to XP - wait for Service Pack 1.

[victortrav]

what version of autocad do you use ???

[luistwentyone]

I am running Vista with Office 2003, all working fine.

[swissfish]

I will be staying as far away from Vista as I can. I do a lot of my work in AutoCAD and it runs literally 50x slower on a Vista machine. I would hope that Office 2003 would work on it, but don't hold your breath.


Wich version of AutoCAD do you use?

[DaveMorris]

"what version of autocad do you use ???"

It is a customized version of AutoCAD 2004. It is called LDAssistant and is built with the AutoCAD guts and a lighting designer front end. Here is a link:
www.ldassistant.com (http://www.ldassistant.com)

Toms Hardware did a benchmark test with Vista and AutoCAD and it ran 50x slower due to Vista not supporting the openGL graphics.

[swissfish]

The newest AutoCAD platform is nice.
They finally copied some off the stuff that was great on microstation :)

[Mr.Chewbacca]

I agree with dave
im gonna hold on vista until it gets all its bugs fixed
hey dav i have a good amount of experiance with autocad and mc somthin
i learnd it in wood shop :D
any advice of hgow it might help me in the future?

[victortrav]

im on acad 2007 with ldd and civil 3D .Ive been using acad for over 13 years i do civil design using land development desktop. microstation is pretty awesome but im so out of pratice in it last version i used was microstation J and before that was on an intergraph workstation. Mr Chewbacca how much experience do you have in it. I know a few people that could use cad help from time to time myself included.

[scott058]

I have vista with office 03 and no problems what so ever. After a couple weeks now I can't really complain about vista, Its given me no problems but then again I do not run any type of auto cad

[BigAir]

This is good to know, as also run auto cad, and also starting to use Solid Works. Looks like I will be waiting as long as possible before switching to Vista.

[coral diver]

Thanks Guys looks like 03 it is till i find something

[victortrav]

maybe there should be an autocad thread too

[swissfish]

I got a free Vista update with my new Laptop but i cant use it, because the Siemens, ABB and possibly AutoCAD 2007 won't work with it. And by the time the Software updates are in, the offer will be expired. Therefore XPpro it will be on my computer:)

[victortrav]

what kind of drafting do you do swiss

[swissfish]

just some electrical scematics and basic fabrication drawings. Sometimes it comes in verry handy to do home inprovement project drawings such as decks and retaining walls too:)
On my new Computer I only have the LT version. No 3D drawing anymore:(

[victortrav]

ya know i could save myself alot of headache if i actually did sketches for my home projects

[DaveMorris]

I actually did a 3D rendering of my house one day because I was bored. I started goofing around with it and the next thing I know, it's seven hours later and I am looking at my house on the computer screen. Most of the drafting I do is for generating room layouts for very large corporate events. Such as ESRI user conference at the Convention Center. 12,000 seats in front of a 60'x40' stage with three 25'H x 80'W video screens. Fun stuff....

[victortrav]

too funny ive done my old house its amazing how you can get sucked into a meaningless task like that. Very cool i would love to see some of your work actually any of yalls work just to see what other people do in acad. or microstation for that matter. and if anyone knows mstation and want to give me pointers i need them presently have v8 but never even look at it.

[DaveMorris]

I'd invite you over to look at some of what I have done, but I don't want to kill your battery again. I still feel bad about that. I'll have to dig up some drawings.

[victortrav]

no worries the jumpers are still in the van so its all good

[DaveMorris]

Did you get the tank set up?

[coral diver]

you know i would like to see what you guy are talking about it could be beneficial for our R&D guy at work he even got a machine that you could put a small object and it will get a 3D image of it dont know what its called. He designed a lot of stuff in our diving equipment line.

[victortrav]

not yet i did get a stand and canopy for it tho baby steps

[victortrav]

let me see if i can dig up a quick model of some of my work and post a pic of it

[SolRo]

I got a free Vista update with my new Laptop but i cant use it, because the Siemens, ABB and possibly AutoCAD 2007 won't work with it. And by the time the Software updates are in, the offer will be expired. Therefore XPpro it will be on my computer:)

Try asking them for just a disc or code, so you can upgrade yourself when your software/vista work together

[victortrav]

ok here is a 3d terain model. I do waterfront redevelopment so mostr of this is underwater
http://www.shypixiegirl.com/model.JPG

[swissfish]

d you ever use hypack?

[victortrav]

never heard of it

[coral diver]

Well got the lap top working with office 03 just tying to get the hang of the Vista