I usually capture c:\windows\system32\cmd.exe and then run the install from there. Try that if the Global capture gets too much extra stuff.

Matt Hilton

 Matt,

I tried that...still no luck.

-trb

And...the global capture didn't work. When I imported the layer to a new machine it wouldn't work...

so here's what I know about Autocad.

There are three prereques it needs:

1) Direct X
2) .Net 3.5
3) Visual C++ 2005 Runtime

I install all three of those to the base for a capture even though .Net is the only one that won't capture on XP (vista is a different story) even with a Global Capture.

Now I haven't tried with the licensing server but what it sounds like is there's a separate process that we're not tracking so you'll need to run process explorer to see if there's something that's being run that's not part of the install and then add it to the layer's autorun list like I describe for capturing a Print Driver.

Also a note:  with SWV 6.1 you should no longer have to capture a command prompt to get everything a layer is running, we changed how capture behaves and I wrote up a blog post about it a few months back.

Has anyone gotten Autocad 2010 to work via SVS?  Using either Global Capture or Command Spawned Process tricks fails to work when attempting to load the SVS package on another machine other than the original.  Also, we have tried installing .Net, Visual C++ 2005 Runtime and verified that DirectX 9.0C is installed and it fails to work as well.  Quite simply, after the splash screen, the program kills its own process and crashes.

I never had any luck. I tried all of the suggestions in this post and nothing worked. I ended up just figuring out how to do a silent install of AutoCAD.

I was able to take a Symantec Workspace Streaming snapsot. That worked like a charm.  For some reason I wasn't able to make a layer out of the CAD...

Wait, so does that mean you got Autocad to work via Streaming, just not as a standalone SVS layer?  I am confused since I figured that Streaming just chopped up the SVS layer into smaller bits of information and using the Learning Capabilities, the AI in SWS streamed out the packets in a similar fashion to youtube.

There's quite possibly some new prerequisite that 2010 has that's preventing it from getting captured correctly.  I remember that 2009 had a prereq folder where everything that was required was installed from which is how I tracked down the VC runtime issue.