×
INTELLIGENT WORK FORUMS
FOR ENGINEERING PROFESSIONALS

Log In

Come Join Us!

Are you an
Engineering professional?
Join Eng-Tips Forums!
  • Talk With Other Members
  • Be Notified Of Responses
    To Your Posts
  • Keyword Search
  • One-Click Access To Your
    Favorite Forums
  • Automated Signatures
    On Your Posts
  • Best Of All, It's Free!
  • Students Click Here

*Eng-Tips's functionality depends on members receiving e-mail. By joining you are opting in to receive e-mail.

Posting Guidelines

Promoting, selling, recruiting, coursework and thesis posting is forbidden.

Students Click Here

Jobs

Saving 2013 file to open in 2012

Saving 2013 file to open in 2012

Saving 2013 file to open in 2012

(OP)
I'm running 2013. Is there a way to save part / assembly files
so someone using 2012 can open the files... a "save as" option....
or do I need to create the files in 2012?

thanks

RE: Saving 2013 file to open in 2012

This may help also..Link

RE: Saving 2013 file to open in 2012

(OP)
Thanks ,...... appreciate the follow up.

RE: Saving 2013 file to open in 2012

Toycept, if you have someone that needs to edit the part and they are on 2012 then you will be far better off to model it in 2012. SWX2013 can always open and use the 2012 version, but not the other way around.

I think the current functionality of opening a 2013 file in 2012 SP5 is totally useless. The part doesn't even come in as a dumb solid. I would rather SWX had done the following to at least make the 2013/2012 interchange have some utility:
1. Let 2012 SP5 open a 2013 file and either bring in the 2013 part as an inserted base part or as a dumb solid.
2. Let the 2012 user make changes to the part in the form of new features. This would not be the same as parametrically changing the existing features of the 2013 part since those features and their tree would not even be visible.
3. Let the 2013 user then bring in the part modified by the 2012 user and absorb the changes made by the 2012 user.

Now that would be a useful interchange until/if they ever make true backward compatibility, which I doubt will ever happen.

- - -Updraft

RE: Saving 2013 file to open in 2012

hello, to open an assembly file solidworks 2013 version 2012 must be in the enrigistrer PARASOLID file ....

Red Flag This Post

Please let us know here why this post is inappropriate. Reasons such as off-topic, duplicates, flames, illegal, vulgar, or students posting their homework.

Red Flag Submitted

Thank you for helping keep Eng-Tips Forums free from inappropriate posts.
The Eng-Tips staff will check this out and take appropriate action.

Reply To This Thread

Posting in the Eng-Tips forums is a member-only feature.

Click Here to join Eng-Tips and talk with other members!


Resources