Help! Saving to prior release???
Help! Saving to prior release???
(OP)
background: I have solidworks 2004 at home and at the college I teach at. I also teach at a high school where we just got a copy of 2005 personal edition.
SO heres my dilemma: I opened some files from my college class [2004] to show some of my high schoolers [on 2005] and solidworks converted them to the later version so now I cant open them in 2004 for my college class (which is tonite). I've looked all over to try and find a way to save the files as an earlier release or export them to some other format that 2004 will understand but havent had any luck. Can someone make a recommendation on this?
SO heres my dilemma: I opened some files from my college class [2004] to show some of my high schoolers [on 2005] and solidworks converted them to the later version so now I cant open them in 2004 for my college class (which is tonite). I've looked all over to try and find a way to save the files as an earlier release or export them to some other format that 2004 will understand but havent had any luck. Can someone make a recommendation on this?






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Scott Baugh, CSWP
www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376
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Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reason trumps all. And awe trumps reason.
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Forced to upgrade?
I dont quite understand it.
Adam
Solidworks 2005 SP01.1
Windows 2000
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There are very valid reasons for not being backward compatible. Do a search on this forum and on the UG forum, and you will find several threads regarding this. One of the primary reasons is a previous version has no way to interpret any new features or additions created in the newer release. I really don't think this is some kind of conspiracy to force us to upgrade, and I believe that this problem is present in most midrange and all high range CAD packages.
RE: Help! Saving to prior release???
My opinion is because not to force users to upgrade, but because of new features not being covered by older versions.
I can't imagine makeing a Deformed or flex feature and then sending it back to an old version of SW... how would it figure it out... espeically if you send a Multi-body part back to a version of SW, when Multi-body was nto supported.
My .02 worth,
Scott Baugh, CSWP
www.scottjbaugh.com
FAQ731-376
RE: Help! Saving to prior release???
Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks Pro 06/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home site (updated 06-21-05)
FAQ559-1100
FAQ559-716
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I think rporter has your only possible solution if you hosed over your files.
Jeff Mowry
www.industrialdesignhaus.com
Reason trumps all. And awe trumps reason.
RE: Help! Saving to prior release???
I can understand some of the arguements for not being backwards compatible but after 14 years of using AutoCAD and still being relatively new to solidworks it just never occurred to me that this would be an issue.
Lesson learned. Thanks again guys!
RE: Help! Saving to prior release???
Chris
Systems Analyst, I.S.
SolidWorks Pro 06/PDMWorks 06
AutoCAD 06
ctopher's home site (updated 06-21-05)
FAQ559-1100
FAQ559-716
RE: Help! Saving to prior release???
If you're relatively new to SWx what are you teaching your students? Hang out here you will learn a lot.
pop quiz tomorrow
Best Regards,
Heckler
Sr. Mechanical Engineer
SW2005 SP 5.0 & Pro/E 2001
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