As an aside, I had upgraded to R2015 a few years ago and am extremely happy that I did. Absolutely no regrets.
I liked R14,,,, didn't have any issues running it for years (certainly longer than the Autodesk shareholder's would have liked 🙂 )
That said, and acknowledging that you don't want to spend the money on new Acad software rentals (plus traing and support to use it) perhaps it would be worth your while to look at one of the work-a-likes. Draftsight, for example, is free-to-use-for-any purpose and will run on pretty much any recent desktop (win 7 or later). It lacks LISP, so that may (or may not) be a deal breaker.
It would be a lot simpler in the long term than trying to rely on 20 year old, unsupported software that can't run on a legally available operating system.
As far as keyboard vs mouse -- both.
I draft with 2 hands, one hand for calling commands, one hand for clicking points in a drawing.
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Civil 3D 2022 on Windows 10
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@Anonymous wrote:
i don't see why there is not some architecture forum for people who prefer to work like this.
Because they would be very quiet.
I've called commands via keyboard since I worked on R14. When everyone was screaming in R2009 when they switched to the ribbon interface. it didnt phase me, because it didnt affect the commandline.
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Civil 3D 2022 on Windows 10
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What discipline do you work in (mechanical, architectural, etc.)?
If you are considering going to 3D modeling I would drop r14 like a hot potato and immediately update your software. And I would encourage you to proceed with the 3D modeling. Despite all other options such as Revit, Inventor,... AutoCAD itself is very capable in 3D modeling.
I have no experience with Macs so I cant say one way or the other about that.
AutoCAD R14 runs fine on brand new high-spec 64bit PC's - as an R14 lover, I want all to know this fact...
This is the way to do it, tested working - Installing AutoCAD R14 on Windows 7, WIndows 8 and Windows 10 64bit
I use Oracle VirtualBox on my windows 7 to run R14. However, the 6.0.18 version or 6.0.12 version doesn't have issues as the newer 6.1 versions do if you go that route.
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