For OCAD Orienteering<\/em>, OCAD Starter<\/em>, OCAD Course Setting<\/em> and OCAD Viewer<\/em>, OCAD Setup will only install the 64-bit version.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Note: In the past, certain features were only available in the 32-bit version (e.g. real-time GPS). These features now also work in the 64-bit version.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For OCAD Mapping Solution<\/em>, OCAD Setup still installs both the 64-bit and 32-bit versions. What does this mean for you?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n You may have to recreate some OCAD shortcuts. What’s the difference between the 64-bit and 32-bit versions of OCAD?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The 64-bit version of OCAD isn’t faster than the 32-bit version, but it can allocate more RAM. This is important when loading large raster background maps or DEM files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Other things to note<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Almost all computers today run a 64-bit version of Windows. However, if the installed Windows version is 32-bit, OCAD will only install a 32-bit version of OCAD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The latest OCAD update no longer creates a 32-bit version for most users. What version of OCAD is installed? For OCAD Orienteering, OCAD Starter, OCAD Course Setting and OCAD Viewer, OCAD Setup will only install the 64-bit version. Note: In the past, certain features were only available in the 32-bit version (e.g. real-time GPS). These […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,35,46,1],"tags":[12,9,10,20],"class_list":["post-1578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ocad-11","category-ocad-12","category-ocad-2018","category-uncategorized","tag-ocad","tag-orienteering-map-making","tag-professional-map-making","tag-real-time-gps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1578"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1594,"href":"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1578\/revisions\/1594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
The reason for this is that some database features are not available in both versions:
– Microsoft Access database files depend on the installed version of the Access Database Engine.
– dbf database file cannot be used in OCAD 64-bit version <\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ocad.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/32bit64bit.png\")
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Go to C:\\Program Files\\OCAD\\OCAD 2018 Orienteering<\/em>. There you will find the ‘OCAD 2018 Orienteering.exe’. Right-click on it and Create Shortcut<\/em>.
Otherwise you will not notice any effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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