New files into old version of SW?

Discussion in 'SolidWorks' started by me, May 4, 2004.

  1. me

    me Guest

    I know I should upgrade, but money is tight. In the meantime, is
    there a way for my clients to save their files, which are created in
    SW 2004, in a Solidworks format that can be opened by my old 2001 plus
    SW? Or, is saving them in IGES format the only choice? IGES will
    give me a read-only file, right?

    Thanks for any help.

    Dick

    dick at antiochsys.com
     
    me, May 4, 2004
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  2. me

    Dan Bovinich \(home\) Guest

    You can have them save them in IGES, step, sat, parasolid and your SW 2001+
    will read them all. You just won't have a tree to modify them. They will
    come in as a "dumb" solid. You can add to and cut the dumb solid, it just
    won't be as easy as if they were in SW 2004.

    Dan
     
    Dan Bovinich \(home\), May 4, 2004
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    me Guest

    Thaks for the excellent and amazingly prompt reply.
     
    me, May 4, 2004
    #3
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    cadishaq Guest

    Save as parasolid. If you have office you might be able to use the
    featureworks add in to give you some feature history.

    Respect
     
    cadishaq, May 4, 2004
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