Finding Installed Versions

What would people recommend as the best way to detect all instances of
AutoCAD installed on a machine?

I have written a series of add-on utilities which we use at our company but
we know exactly what version we are dealing with as all machines have the
same software. Trouble is, I now have people wanting to use it on personal
machines and outside agencies want to use it as well. As they could be
running any incarnation and in some cases more than 1 version, I want to be
able to pick out all instances.

I have looked into
HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows/CurrentVersion/Uninstall/<app name or GUID>
but Autodesk seem to use GUIDs which are more than a little perplexing
(unless someone can provide a list of all Autodesk GUIDs)

 

Question:
What is code-base of you application ? ..e.g. Lisp, VLisp, VBA, Object Arx..
IF it is Lisp or Vlisp..then you can sense the version of ACAD with (setq acad_rel (substr (getvar "acadver") 1 2))..
Then (if (= acad_rel "14"...(if (= acad_rel "15"...etc.

If the question is for 'installation', you could search for acad.exe ... and try to determine which version from sub-dir name.

Bob

Bob

 

I'm using Wise Installer to create the installation. If I search for the exe
and there are numerous autocad installations on the same machine, I need to
do a lot of string parsing etc to crop directory names and it also relies on
people using the generic install directory naming which I know from
experience some people do change.

I was hoping there may be a reg key somewhere which lists all Autodesk
software rather than manually checking to find the existence of a whole
bunch of keys which may or may not be present. As I can't say for sure what
versions of AutoCAD some people will be using, I want a foolproof method of
detecting EVERY version of AutoCAD.

 

I'm using Wise Installer to create the installation. If I search for the exe
and there are numerous autocad installations on the same machine, I need to
do a lot of string parsing etc to crop directory names and it also relies on
people using the generic install directory naming which I know from
experience some people do change.

I was hoping there may be a reg key somewhere which lists all Autodesk
software rather than manually checking to find the existence of a whole
bunch of keys which may or may not be present. As I can't say for sure what
versions of AutoCAD some people will be using, I want a foolproof method of
detecting EVERY version of AutoCAD.

 

The versions are the subfolders that exist under HKLM\\Software\\Autodesk\\.

If you want to get more specific of any vertical applications just go one more folder deep into each version folder. Granted the folder names are not easy to read (i.e., ACAD-208:409) but with a little help from here you could probably get a list of all the VertApps that you need.

The simplest way is to find out the current version. This is saved under:
HKCU\\Software\\Autodesk\\AutoCAD
Value = CurVer

I hope this helps.

Josh

 

Looks like I need to get people dumping version details into this post so I
can cover all bases. I've only got a beta copy of ABS 2005 on this machine
and that is falling into R16.1 ACAD-306:409. I'll have a look at one of our
ADT2004 machines and get that code but it's all the many any varied
possibilities that I need to trace. Had a shufty on Google but not been very
successful tracking down any kind of definitve list.

 

ACAD-208:409 is LDT 2004

 

ACAD-308:409 is LDT2005.

 

ACAD-301:409 = ADT 2005