Why are you not installing the 64-bit version of Revit 2009? If you are on
Subscription you can download it from the Subscription Center.
>I was told Windows 7 Home Premium is 64-bit and can only run 64-bit applications. If you need to run 32-bit applications then you need to upgrade to Windows 7 Professional or Windows 7 Ultimate.
Find whomever told you this and hit them with something large and heavy.
It's not true. Any 64-bit version of Windows 7 will run both 32- and 64-bit
apps, largely without issue.
The person may be referring to "XP Mode," which is a feature only available on
Win7 Professional, which is a specialized version of Microsoft Virtual PC and
Windows XP Service Pack 3 (you can download both from Microsoft). It basically
allows you to - freely - install XP SP3 as a Virtual Machine where you can
install any application or device which cannot run under Windows 7 x64. Some
older hardware may be rendered obsolete because the mfr decided not to continue
64-bit driver support, which is required for all devices under a 64-bit OS.
>I have read a lot of posts on different threads regarding the compatibility of using Autodesk products with Windows 7 and I have not seen anyone from Autodesk post anything other than Autodesk products have not been confirmed to work with Windows 7. I will post what I have been told to this point (whether rightly or wrongly) and hope someone can clarify whether this is "True" or "Fals
Generally speaking, anything that is compatible with Vista will run on Windows 7
fine. Revit is actually excellent on the Windows 7 x64 platform. I've been
running 64-bit Revit 2009/2010 on 7 since early Beta without issue, except for
nVidia drivers which were also beta.
> I have downloaded Autodesk REVIT 2009 32-bit and I have not encountered a single error, but I am having issues installing the tutorials.
The instructions for installing the Revit tutorials are there and do work - you
just need to follow the instructions for Windows Vista which are the same for
Win7.
In particular the 2009 tutorial EXEs will attempt to extract the tutorials to a
Windows XP folder (c:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application
Data\Autodesk\RAC 2009\Training) instead of the appropriate Vista folder
(c:\ProgramData\Autodesk\RAC 2009\Training).
Matt
matt@stachoni.com
On Sat, 7 Nov 2009 19:45:54 +0000, MRickert <> wrote:
>I am trying to install the Tutorials for REVIT 2009 32-bit on a Windows 7 64-bit with Ultimate upgrade which has the XP compatiblility mode. When I click on "Tutorials" from the REVIT program side bar I get a Help Window which gives one set of intructions and a link. The Link gives you a page with a different set of instructions and a comment about special instructions as to which folder you need to downlaod to if you are a Vista User, but no instructions on which path / folder you should download to if you are a Windows 7 user. I got the "tutorial.exe" file to install I think. NOTE: I am refering to the Imperial Tutorial files 1 of 4, 2 of 4, 3 of 4, and 4 of 4. I am in the 4th week of an 8-week Autodesk REVIT class and still cannot get anyone to answer my question.
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>I have read a lot of posts on different threads regarding the compatibility of using Autodesk products with Windows 7 and I have not seen anyone from Autodesk post anything other than Autodesk products have not been confirmed to work with Windows 7. I will post what I have been told to this point (whether rightly or wrongly) and hope someone can clarify whether this is "True" or "False".
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>I was told Windows 7 Home Premium is 64-bit and can only run 64-bit applications. If you need to run 32-bit applications then you need to upgrade to Windows 7 Professional or Windows 7 Ultimate.
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> I have downloaded Autodesk REVIT 2009 32-bit and I have not encountered a single error, but I am having issues installing the tutorials. As I stated above the Help instructions tell you to go into the existing files and remove the check next to the "read only" first, then go to the link. The link give a different set of instructions, with a "note" to Windows Vista users, but nothing for Windows 7 users (nor which version of Windows 7) on the correct path to download to for installation.
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>Anyone with solid knowledge about this please send me a detailed reply to Michael_Rickert@insideranken.org (Ranken Technical College). Your help would be greatly appreciated because the course ends in 4 weeks.