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CAD Forums => Vertically Challenged => Land Lubber / Geographically Positioned => Topic started by: Mark on October 02, 2006, 09:33:25 AM

Title: Removing C3D
Post by: Mark on October 02, 2006, 09:33:25 AM: Anyone have any issues with removing C3D? The removal process of C3D fails miserably, even after repair.
Title: Re: Removing C3D
Post by: Cannon on October 02, 2006, 09:46:23 AM: Version? Other stuff installed? OS? Virus scanner running? Phase of the moon?

Come on, you have to give us _something_ to go on.
Title: Re: Removing C3D
Post by: Mark on October 02, 2006, 10:00:57 AM: C3D 2006, Raster 2006, LDT2006(removed OK). Just had WindowsXP SP2 installed last Friday. Norton Corp. AV running, I cannot turn it off. Tons of other stuff installed, MS Office 97, CAiCE ( latest edition ) and many more. Enabled/disabled the Windows system restore.

Error message;
(http://www.theswamp.org/screens/mark/screen_shots/c3d_fatal-error.png)
Title: Re: Removing C3D
Post by: Mark on October 02, 2006, 10:09:08 AM: BTW, yes I did reboot the computer.
Title: Re: Removing C3D
Post by: Maverick® on October 02, 2006, 10:12:15 AM: You forgot...

http://imagiware.com/astro/moon.cgi

Just helpin ya out boss :-)
Title: Re: Removing C3D
Post by: Mark on October 02, 2006, 10:17:23 AM: Just found this, although .... nothing really in there.
[ http://discussion.autodesk.com/thread.jspa?messageID=5019738 ]
Title: Re: Removing C3D
Post by: Mark on October 02, 2006, 10:35:40 AM: Never mind .... gonna do it the hard way. <delete>

thanks
Title: Re: Removing C3D
Post by: Dent Cermak on October 02, 2006, 01:26:46 PM: LISTEN!! Is that a pack of wolves howling at the moon phot Mav posted or is that a bunch of AutoDesk salesreps bemoaning the uninstall of the "greatest software package this decade"? :angel: ^-^
Title: Re: Removing C3D
Post by: Cannon on October 02, 2006, 04:58:25 PM: Nah, 2006 sucked. :-P

2007 now...
Title: Re: Removing C3D
Post by: Dinosaur on October 02, 2006, 06:20:16 PM: Mark, I thought you were trying to get rid of it (http://www.theswamp.org/index.php?topic=12733.msg155866#msg155866) and had decided on the long road home which should have succeeeded by now. What have you tried / accomplished, so far?
Title: Re: Removing C3D
Post by: Mark on October 05, 2006, 10:13:29 AM: Quote from: DinØsaur on October 02, 2006, 06:20:16 PM
Mark, I thought you were trying to get rid of it (http://www.theswamp.org/index.php?topic=12733.msg155866#msg155866) and had decided on the long road home which should have succeeeded by now. What have you tried / accomplished, so far?

I removed 2006 and installed 2007. < jumping in with both feet > :-)
Title: Re: Removing C3D
Post by: Dinosaur on October 05, 2006, 10:33:33 AM: Get BOTH of those feet wet . . . it should be a good move for you. The only issue I have so far with 2007 after service pack 2 is converting down to older format drawings.
Title: Re: Removing C3D
Post by: Bealerusa on October 05, 2006, 12:18:27 PM: Dino, what are your issues? I have downloaded SP2 but have not installed it yet. I have the need to often save down ( for clients...) and would like to know the woe before I go. Thoughts??
Title: Re: Removing C3D
Post by: Jeff_M on October 05, 2006, 12:23:34 PM: The problem, for me, in saving down is that you lose ALL of your C3D objects and their "smarts". If you expect to get the drawing back and be able to use it as you were, fergetaboutit. Now if it's just so the client has the drawing as Acad objects, well, that would be OK since that's what they'd get.

My $0.02....
Title: Re: Removing C3D
Post by: Bealerusa on October 05, 2006, 12:36:09 PM: AAhhh... worth 0.04 to me, thanks Jeff.
Title: Re: Removing C3D
Post by: Dinosaur on October 05, 2006, 12:51:44 PM: That would just about cover it Jeff. I would not expect to send my drawing anywhere and have it returned is a state where I would just start drawing again. I would export any elements they had added and incorporate them into my copy of the file I sent.
Also, those on the receiving end are often surprised when they get either proxy objects that they can't do anything with or completely dumb elements exploded down to where a simple point is now two short perpendicular line segments and a few pieces of text or mtext. I don't even want to think of the layering nightmare that would be faced with C3D's tendency to put everything on layer 0 unless told otherwise in several different places.
Title: Re: Removing C3D
Post by: MMccall on October 09, 2006, 10:53:03 AM: My 07 install on my laptop went bad after I did the SP2 update. I got an error about a DLL being in a wrong format or something like that. I tried the install repair and then a reinstall with no success. Then I tried an uninstall that ended with an error before it completed. Then I deleted all the Adesk folders I could find, stripped it from the software sections of the registry, ran Norton system maintenance to fix all the broken entries from the deleted files and registry hack. Then ran the MS utility to remove it from the list of installed programs and then flushed all the temp files. I know I'll never find and fix every entry and file the install program placed but I did everything I could think of the clean out every trace of Adesk I could before trying to run a new, clean install. .... clean install crashed 20 min. in., re-ran it, same deal, error with msi yadda yadda.

... looks like a fresh OS install is in my future ...