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Does AutoCAD 2012 and 2019 work together on Windows 10?

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Does AutoCAD 2012 and 2019 work together on Windows 10?

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Hi there,

 

i am wondering if someone can help me out here. I want to know if AutoCAD 2012 and 2019 work fine next to eachother on windows 10. 

 

I am asking this as the software department is telling me that they created the install package for 2019 with the 2012 uninstall step in it, as 2012 doesn't work on Windows 10 together with 2019.

 

Can anyone give me some information on this matter? Thanks in advance!

 

greetings, C.

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Alfred.NESWADBA
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Hi,

 

You can install AutoCAD 2012 and 2019 parallel, not problem.

However, AutoCAD 2012 is not supported for Windows 10 (AutoCAD 2012 was released many times before Windows 10 was available, even not announced).

 

So in case you need that in a professional environment I would not use AutoCAD 2012 on Windows 10.
Either use Windows 7 or install AutoCAD 2012 in a virtual environment.

 

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RobDraw
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@Anonymous wrote:

I want to know if AutoCAD 2012 and 2019 work fine next to eachother on windows 10. 


 

2012 was not designed for use with Windows 10 OS.

 

Why do you want the very old software anyway?


Rob

Drafting is a breeze and Revit doesn't always work the way you think it should.
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rkmcswain
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@Anonymous wrote:

I am asking this as the software department is telling me that they created the install package for 2019 with the 2012 uninstall step in it, as 2012 doesn't work on Windows 10 together with 2019.

Reading what you wrote above, it sounds like 2012 is already installed and running on your Windows 10 machines, because you are asking if it has to be uninstalled when you install 2019.

 

The answer is no, you don't have to remove it for technical reasons. You may have to remove it for licensing reasons however.

R.K. McSwain     | CADpanacea | on twitter

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thanks for the reply. Will take this into account.

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Anonymous
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Licensing is no issue. We have separate license servers setup for them. But I just wanted to know if they can still live in harmony next to each other on Windows 10.

 

Thanks for the concern! 

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we have our reasons to still use 2012. But any answer on my question? That would be better.

 

ps. Already had it installed and working on Windows 10 without any issues so far.

 

So that being said, looking forward to your feedback @RobDraw 

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rkmcswain
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@Anonymous wrote:

....just wanted to know if they can still live in harmony next to each other on Windows 10.

Yes, no problem. There were some older versions (perhaps, AutoCAD 2000 through 2004?) that had troubles co-existing on the same Windows installation, but that was fixed long ago.

R.K. McSwain     | CADpanacea | on twitter
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RobDraw
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@Anonymous wrote:

we have our reasons to still use 2012.


 

I can't think of any good reasons for having it.


Rob

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rkmcswain
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That's what makes life awesome. Differences. If everyone were the same, it would be pretty boring.

 

Perhaps they have a 3rd party app that was never updated after the 2010 DWG format?

 

Perhaps they purchased those perpetual licenses and never paid to upgrade them.

R.K. McSwain     | CADpanacea | on twitter

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Had a bad Friday @RobDraw ? You are totally not focusing on giving me an answer on my question but just your opinion that so far brought me no clarification at all. As to the answers that @rkmcswain and @Alfred.NESWADBA Alfred gave me are things I can work with. Thanks for that guys.

 

Have a good day all!

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RobDraw
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@Anonymous wrote:

Had a bad Friday @RobDraw ? You are totally not focusing on giving me an answer on my question but just your opinion that so far brought me no clarification at all.


 

My aren't you the critical one? Why would you even post that? Please read my posts again, without trying to insert some fictitious underlying tone. They are just queries. I just wanted to be informed but for some reason you felt the need to put me down.

 

I was only trying to determine why you needed to keep the old software and maybe show you why you don't actually need it and thus making this a non-issue and move on.

 

Why would you focus on my state of mind and try to put me in a bad light? Now, I am puzzled as to why you wouldn't share that information. Are you still trying to divert the attention away from my question?


Rob

Drafting is a breeze and Revit doesn't always work the way you think it should.
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