Trying to Print Drawings for Customer

Hi all



Anyone have these problems?

Customer wants some drawings printing so sends them in dwg format.

Try to open these and get "Invalid File Format" error, so guess that he has
later version of Acad.

He informs me that he is using Acad 2007 LT - we are on full Acad 2005.

He saves the drawing to dxf and re-sends.

I now get the error message noted below when trying to open the dxf:

<<<Unknown value "AC1021" encountered in drawing version.

Invalid or incomplete DXF input -- drawing discarded. >>>



Is it possible to "Save As" an earlier format of dwg from LT rather than
dxf?

Any help appreciated.

TIA



Phil

 

Ask your client to "Saveas 2004.dwg format".
This is a format that your version can read.

But this is not the underlying problem. If the format was wrong (2007.dwg)
you would get an "Incompatible Error" message. Most likely the file was
corrupted during the transfer. Your client should send the file in a
compressed format. You can also try to open the file using the File>Recover
option.

 

Thanks George and Chip

I already thought of the "Save As" older version route but was not aware of
the backward compatibility issues with 2007.
Another thought I had was to get him to send plot files rather than dwgs.
I think this should work as we both have DesignJet plotters albeit his is
500 and ours is 800.

Phil

 

Check out www.dwggateway.com and download the free DWGgateway program.
This is an amazing program that runs inside AutoCAD. It allows you to open
any version dwg file in your version of AutoCAD.

Regards,
Jo