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Acad, C3D, Revit & SDKs (2014): How much storage space?

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doni49
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Acad, C3D, Revit & SDKs (2014): How much storage space?

I have IDSU 2014.  From this suite, I want to install Acad, C3D, Revit and their respecitve SDKs. 

 

I have an Ultrabook running Win7 and it doesn't have enough hard drive space.  I THOUGHT I'd be able to use a network drive for the installation.  But the installer tells me the drive isn't valid.

 

So my thought is to use a USB stick.  But what size would I need? 

 

This installation would not be for production use -- I'll be using it at home and then mainly to become familiar with using the SDKs.



Don Ireland
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DarrenP
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the one that autodesk provides with the suites are 32 gigs in size but that is only if you copy  from the usb stick to another usb stick

if you used broswer download for the suite its much smaller

its about 12 gigs for the 64 bit download for IDSU 2014

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doni49
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Thanks but I was talking about actually INSTALLING it on the USB stick. But after posting the question, I remembered that I have a spare USB hard drive. So I pulled that out of storage and distilled on it.


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DarrenP
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i wouldn't recommened installing on an external device

for one now every time you want take your laptop anywhere your external harddrive would have to be plugged into it to use the Autodesk software

with ultrabooks they do not have many USB ports

this may also cause issues with the software

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doni49
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The internal drive doesn't have enough space. So it's external or nothing.

I understand about needing to have the external drive connected when I want to use the software. Although it's not ideal, it's acceptable.


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doni49
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DarrenP wrote:

this may also cause issues with the software


As long as I don't run it without the drive attached, what kind of issues would you foresee?



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DarrenP
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slow start up of the software would be one, performance may be another one since your going to be constantly read/writing to the external drive this may slow down the software

 

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doni49
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Ok.  Thanks.  Those types of issues fall under the "not ideal but tolerable" category as well.  It won't be for production use (and for the most part a lot of the time, the software won't actually be open/running -- I have Visual Studio (C## and Basic) installed and will be using the Acad/Revit APIs.



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