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What’s noteworthy in what I uncovered is the problem was spurred on by the environment I was working in. While I could be inclined to document every single step I took and every lead I followed, that would make for rather bland reading, so instead, I’ll just share with you this blog posts’ pièce de résistance. While I temporarily comforted myself by grinning and imagining a tiny army of fists quietly shaking in the direction of the individuals responsible for this debacle, I decided a more productive endeavor would resolve this problem myself.
ARCHITECTURE AUTOCAD INSTALL
My next step was to copy the contents of the media (DVD) and place them on my local hard drive and once again attempt to install ACA 2013. Thereupon I attempted to reinstall AutoCAD Architecture (ACA 2013) but was met with the same failure and the same error codes. Specifically, I browsed the media folder (D:3rdPartyDirectX) and installed DirectX manually via the DXSETUP.EXE. Though I was quite certain that the version of DirectX that I had installed was the required version, I followed through with the necessary steps in an attempt to mitigate that error and ensure that I ultimately practiced what I always preach regarding due diligence.
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Install AutoCAD® Architecture 2013 FailedĮven though errors 16 are notoriously vague, their variants are fairly well documented by Autodesk and the Autodesk community and can be addressed by resolving the offending installer package. My first reaction was to take a look at the installation logs which, when parsed through, revealed the following two errors. “Odd”, I thought, but this wasn’t anything that I hadn’t seen before.
ARCHITECTURE AUTOCAD SOFTWARE
While uninstalling the software went typically smooth, I was surprisingly met with this screen upon attempting a re-installation: Troubleshooting this particular problem required me to uninstall the current version of AutoCAD Architecture 2013 I had running (installed from the Building Design Suite Ultimate package) and to reinstall the application again, this time from the standalone media. The story begins when my colleague Reid and I were working on a completely separate issue, which I’ll likely blog about in the future. In my experience, installation related problems are typically well documented, most notably by the Autodesk team over at Up and Ready, and can usually be resolved by a combination of due diligence and some technical expertise.
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As someone who exacts an almost North Korean style of control over the contents of their laptop, there’s likely no greater feeling of abjection than being stumped by a simple installation error.