Posted: 2/5/2010 6:53:30 PM EDT
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So, I've been trying to get AutoCAD to install on my NON-NETWORKED Windoze machine. It's one that I very deliberately never connect to the internet, so that it cannot be infected.
AutoCAD has told me that I can just "download all the files" and install them, and then get the activation code and enter it by hand. Unfortunately, I can't get any damn thing to download from their site other than "installer.exe", which is a tiny little program that is supposed to run so that it, then, will download all the rest of the crap. And because I'm not the administrator on the lab machine that I am running it on, I can't run it to download the files. 
Anyone know how the hell to get around this nonsense? |
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Sigh. Let me map this out.
I have a computer sitting at my aparment. I want to put AutoCAD on it. I do not have internet at my apartment. Also, that computer is one I intend not to connect to a network, since it has confidential materials on it that I don't want to be stolen by every 15yo pimply Chinese geek hacker out there. I have access to the internet at my school's computer lab. I can download stuff there. I am not able to install software onto those machines, because those machines are owned by the university, and are locked down. When I go to AutoCAD's download site, it displays all the lovely software that I am allowed to get free because I am such a cool guy, not to mention a university student. AutoCAD loves university students because they turn into paying customers in a couple of years. Unfortunately, clicking on a download link gets a 205kb file called "installer.exe" downloaded to the computer. Note that this is a lab computer, so I cannot run the software to "install" AutoCAD onto it. There does not appear to be any way to download the necessary approx. 2.8GB of other files. The AutoCAD support website sucks balls, frankly. I asked this straightforward question there and was told to just download the files. When I subsequently asked HOW to download the files, I got a snarky answer, much less polite than yours, which basically said that I was a complete idiot and should go away and buy SolidWorks instead. However, as I am a cheap bastard, I would like to download the free versions of AutoCAD software that all of us students are permitted, nay, begged to use. So, does anyone have a clue about how to use the AutoCAD website to download the installation files for such products as AutoCAD Inventor 2010, when one is unable to run their "installer.exe" thing? Supposedly, according to the AutoCAD snob on their website, it is doable, but I am completely unable to find any hint, clue, or direct link that either does it or explains how to do it, and frankly, they make it a royal pain in the ass to get any questions answered there. Oh yeah –– my tech capabilities are pretty fucking good, but apparently not when it comes to unlocking the secrets of the AutoCAD website. |
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Just connect your damn computer to the internet and install. Once installed disconnect. If you don't want to do that, buy the education version. And I just went to download AutoCAD and it is 1.3G so I don't know what you are talking about.
Now I have to put up with all the damn phone calls and emails for this little experiment. |