Old versions on Windows 10 and up
Posted: Sun Apr 09, 2023 7:29 pm
HI all,
I have not used DataCAD full time since 2008. I changed careers in the great recession and am now a manufacturing engineer. I occasionally want to tinker with some addition and remodeling plans for my own house and for my siblings. I know this might be beating a dead horse but here goes: I have a V12 CD and dongle that I have used occasionally in the last few years. I'm fairly certain I got it working on Windows 10 (could be wrong) with an laptop I used during school. Most recently was on a Windows 7 laptop, but it died. I now have a Windows 11 laptop. I have loaded the most recent hardlock update and ensured hlvdd.dll is in the appropriate location but still get the "Unknown hardlock error!" message. Has anyone successfully used V12 on a newer version of windows?
Since I don't use this much, I don't really want to spend money on an update if I can make this work. LT is an option that I might go with, as long as my old aev files will load appropriately. How bad is the learning curve since I have not kept up with the updates? I feel like there has to be a way to recognise the hardlock on V12.
Kelly
I have not used DataCAD full time since 2008. I changed careers in the great recession and am now a manufacturing engineer. I occasionally want to tinker with some addition and remodeling plans for my own house and for my siblings. I know this might be beating a dead horse but here goes: I have a V12 CD and dongle that I have used occasionally in the last few years. I'm fairly certain I got it working on Windows 10 (could be wrong) with an laptop I used during school. Most recently was on a Windows 7 laptop, but it died. I now have a Windows 11 laptop. I have loaded the most recent hardlock update and ensured hlvdd.dll is in the appropriate location but still get the "Unknown hardlock error!" message. Has anyone successfully used V12 on a newer version of windows?
Since I don't use this much, I don't really want to spend money on an update if I can make this work. LT is an option that I might go with, as long as my old aev files will load appropriately. How bad is the learning curve since I have not kept up with the updates? I feel like there has to be a way to recognise the hardlock on V12.
Kelly