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BROKEN LINK (DOWNLOAD) - 2015 AutoCAD SUITE ULTIMATE, pls. FIX !

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MetalBlade
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BROKEN LINK (DOWNLOAD) - 2015 AutoCAD SUITE ULTIMATE, pls. FIX !

BROKEN LINK(s):  please fix!:

Files for:
" AutoCAD SUITE Ultimate - 2015": missing, i.e. error: "file not found".
I only care for 64bit, but also broken is 32bit (if anyone cares).
Note:  versions of 2014 down to 2010 are there, so are 2015 (including 2015!) down to 2010 of Inventor or other Suite's I tried as a test, but NOT 2015 Autocad Suite Ultimate (BROKEN) !

 

Location:

Virtual Agent (you get there from Adesk's homepage --> Support/Downlaods --> "how to.." --> Virtual Agent.

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P.S.  PLEASE do NOT suggest to me to go other routes, like that lame Akamai D/L Manager from products webpage -->trial, subscription, etc.  I am not an amateur or born in the past 25 years, thus only accept own-controlled "normal" downloads i.e. download a stand-alone installer + by user's means (either WebBrowser's built in plumbing, for small files, or multi-thread D/L manager), etc. as computer knowledgeable people been doing for decades.  Don't send me to Clouds & other iNonsense, or clever ways to disguise forced installations for computer iDIOTS.  The installation should be offline, user-manageable, and if many people in recent years need assitance - they're NOT hard-core engineers.  I am stunned by how many recent folks can't get a simple thing like downloading a STAND-ALONE file, done (at least, using a normal WebBrowser & w/o assistance or infuriating "automatic instllation", or bootstrapping a tiny installation stub, that calls up an Internet connection to do the "real big download" after you run it, in general violating user's intention).
Please fix STAND-ALONE ("big") installers/downloads, well I know where they are at Autodesk's website working fine, except 2015 Autocad Ste Ultimate is broken, all else seems fine.

Just fix the link in the "NORMAL" download i.e. at Virtual Agent, stand-alone/offline installers.

Fact that Akamai or whatever Cloud fadbuss convoluted methods of donloading work, doesn't negate the fact your weblink is broken in VIrtual Agent.... where we, powerusers & computer knowledgeable engineers go, instead of Product Page -->trial.

 

P.P.S.  You don't even make possible to download with user's own (SUPERIOR) & Generic D/L manager, like FDM (Free Download Manager. dot ORG [not bogus.dot COM !!), and your Akamai is tailored for just Autodesk, makes as much sense to use as a special hat on Thursdays ONLY.

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asburyj
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Thanks for the heads up. I don't have the ability to modify the virtual agent myself but here are some working direct download links while this gets fixed. 

 

AutoCAD Design Suite Ultimate 2015 64 Bit Part 1  Part 2

 

AutoCAD Design Suite Ultimate 2015 32 Bit



Jeffry Asbury
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MetalBlade
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Link(s) you provided, also worked with F.D.M (Free Download Manager dot.ORG [not .Com]), besides basic plumbing included in WebBrowsers (I.E. here), resulting in immense speed + reliability. Today. Thanks!
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I wish all/entire massive library of Downloads at AutoDesk & other big softmakers, goback to how was until recent fad times, iClouds, etc. voiled methods of forced installation & little bootstrappers, calling up disgusting forced auto-install - disregading user's intention for a stand-alone executable or compressed file.
Which means links like the way you just gave me - was perfect & should always be offered like you did.

By the way links in Adesk's "Virtual Agent" for other stuff, while they seems same deal & even point to the same eFulfillment server & do work with basic WebBrowser, they however refuse to work with FDM or most other good (multithread & enterprise-level reliable) D/L managers due to some unexplainable authentification. FDM obviously includes fields to enter userID & password but fact is there's none required for TRIALS DOWNLOADs, yet links in "Virtual Agent" wouldn't start downloading in FDM or other managers, due to something related to above.
So for that I used WebBrowser (Microsoft IE here) buil-in mechanism which majority of humans is the only thing they know... but that's not meant for reliability, stop & resume faults, multithreading, etc, etc. & as such is slow... while FDM has abilty to max. out connection's physical layer speed, in fact FDM can even alarm the server due to extreme speed caused by multi-sectioning (FDM appears to server as multiple users when in reality it paralellizes bitstreams)

OK I sound like a freak 🙂
All I say, needed over 20 Gigabytes of stuff quickly + reliably to see if replacing IV2012 & Acad 2012 wouldn't cause pain, by getting a Trial for a month... but you (Adesk) made it for us powerusers annoying & at times not worth trying other than on a dummy machine ("guinea pig") , by forced installation or Akamai D/Lmanager is almost same problem - i.e. not letting user download by the good, old fashioned way - by having a simple da*n link and no other extraneous strings attached, automatic installation starting, bootstrapping or all kinds of making a boiled egg convoluted by using lasers and bomb chamber to heat an egg.

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