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Backwards compatability 1
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Tony,
The only way you can read an IV 8 file in 6 is to export it to STEP or SAT. IV like most other solid modellers don't retain backwards compatability.
You will be able to read the step or sat, it will just be a dumb solid though with no feature retention.
Alan M. Etzkorn![[machinegun]](/data/assets/smilies/machinegun.gif "[machinegun] [machinegun]")
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Product Engineer
Nixon Tool Co.
The only way you can read an IV 8 file in 6 is to export it to STEP or SAT. IV like most other solid modellers don't retain backwards compatability.
You will be able to read the step or sat, it will just be a dumb solid though with no feature retention.
Alan M. Etzkorn
Product Engineer
Nixon Tool Co.
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