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
Engineering Design Technician
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
DarrenP
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Don Ireland
Engineering Design Technician
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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Don Ireland
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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?
Don Ireland
Engineering Design Technician
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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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.
Don Ireland
Engineering Design Technician