Monday, June 30, 2008

Smack My Map Up

I've yet to run into a program that I couldn't install on 64-bit Vista. The latest challenge I've taken on is Map 3D 2009.

Disclaimer: If you attempt the following procedure, you are on your own. Autodesk will not support these "hacked" versions. I am just putting this out there for your information - I assume no responsibility for this not working for you, your lost time or hair.

This is how I beat Map3D 09 into submission:

  1. Download Orca.msi.
  2. Copy the Contents of the Map DVD to a hard drive (you can delete this after the install is complete).
  3. Browse to the (x86) folder and open ACADMAP.msi with Orca. (After Orca is installed you should be able to right-click on this and select Edit with Orca.)
  4. There are three locations to delete in this MSI file. Table: Custom Action Action: Checkfor64bitOS, Table: InstallExecuteSequence Action: Checkfor64bitOS and Table: LaunchCondition Condition: VersionNT >= 500 AND NOT VersionNT64.
  5. Save and close the modified MSI file.
  6. Run the install by double-clicking the MSI file. I recommend installing to default locations.
  7. Lastly, we have to move some resources that were placed in the wrong location. Browse to C:\Program Files\Autocad Map3D 2009 and move the entire folder to the C:\Program Files (x86) directory.
  8. Click YES to merge folders if it asks.

You should be good to go from there.

1 comment:

Louisa Holland said...

E.K. tells me that the good people at Map tech support will gladly send you a pre-modified installer package. He also mentioned that a few features will not work with 64-bit, such as MAPIINSERT. Installing service packs may be a problem (which makes sense because the updates are usually looking for the DLL's in the default locations).

Thanks so much for the heads up E.K.!!