Still getting the "No game disc found" message when trying to play The Sims 3

It doesn't make any difference how you obtained your game.  If you have a problem with it, your question belongs in the dedicated Sims forum. 

This forum is the gamer to gamer discussion forum in which only the system, Origins, in and of itself, is on topic.

The reason I downloaded Origin is to fix the "no disc" problem, Origin didn't fix it. Sounds like an Origin problem to me.

No, you didn't.  It cannot do any such thing in and of itself.  The game's digital download, not Origin, that is the only thing that will remove the requirement, and *IT* happens to be the GAME. 

this is not a solution. players do in fact report problems with this "no disc found error" when only downloading and installing from origin and having no disc version installed at all.

after finding the "sims 3 (2009) education game, i inserted it into my mac. i have all the software up to date and everything. with that being said, my laptop would not even show any sign of having it in. it wouldn't even bring up a symbol for me to click on. i don't know if this game if too old or what, but all i know is that my game won't even show up on my screen when i put the disk in. help please? 

@Ryan8111p

Download and install the game through Origin, redeeming the product code you have from you disc copy.