Importing 2001+ into 2004

Folks,

I have severals parts and assemblies I made with SW2001 plus.
Recently I upgraded to 2004 and attempted to covert my older files to
2004. I found that several parts didn't convert, while other
converted only to corrupt over the next 2 weeks. Any ideas?

TIA

 

Get a copy of 2003 an convert to 2003 then convert to 2004 if you don't have
2003 I am sure your VAR will support you on this matter.

Corey

 

SW isn't particularly good at making sure that old parts rebuild in new
software. We've had issues with every release since SW2000. Ideally, when
you think you are ready to "upgrade" you should open every part and drawing
and do a ctrl-q on them to force a rebuild. (The parts that failed over the
next two weeks may have failed when they finally needed to do a rebuild.)

Do the failed parts have lofts and sweeps? They are probably the most like
features to fail. How about configurations? They are another weak point,
where features seem to change suppression state on their own. (In fact, you
should probably force a rebuild on each configuration as well.)

Corey's advice, to try updating from 01+ to 03, then 04, is probably good.

Jerry Steiger
Tripod Data Systems
"take the garbage out, dear"

 

Thanks for the advise. I forgot to mention that when these older parts
are opened, I get an "unexpected file format" error. Does this sound
familiar?

Again thanks,

 

Thanks for the advise. I forgot to mention that when these older parts
are opened, I get an "unexpected file format" error. Does this sound
familiar?

Again thanks,

 

Thanks for the advise. I forgot to mention that when these older parts
are opened, I get an "unexpected file format" error. Does this sound
familiar?

Again thanks,

 

Thanks for the advise. I forgot to mention that when these older parts
are opened, I get an "unexpected file format" error. Does this sound
familiar?

Again thanks,

 

Thanks for the advise. I forgot to mention that when these older parts
are opened, I get an "unexpected file format" error. Does this sound
familiar?

Again thanks,

 

Sorry about that. everytime I attempted to respond, Google replied
that the message did not post to the usenet. hence, several of the
same message.

RMH