2 Replies Latest reply on Apr 29, 2009 7:42 AM by Michael Duncan

New Version SW Part Files, Old Version of SW

Andrew Chester Apr 29, 2009 7:04 AM

I've had the 2007 student version of solidworks for a while and for one of my college projects I was provided part files created in a newer version of solidworks. These newer files will not seem to import into my older version, is there a patch or a way I can convert these files to be compatible with the older 2007 student version?? And is this conversion possible without the use of the newer solidworks version?? Anyone have any answers? How could they let this happen?

New Version SW Part Files, Old Version of SW

Deepak Gupta Apr 29, 2009 7:41 AM (in response to Andrew Chester)

The answer is a big NO. There is no direct way to do that. In the commercial version we need to save the file as iges, parasolid, step, etc from the higher version and then finally open the converted file in the lower version. The only drawback is that file will be converted as a imported solid or surface body. You can try the same process as I'm not sure if it can work in student version.
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New Version SW Part Files, Old Version of SW

Michael Duncan Apr 29, 2009 7:42 AM (in response to Andrew Chester)

Have a search thrrough the forum and you will find that this question keeps coming up.
The easy answer is "You can't"
The work around is if you can get somebody with the newer version of SW to save the part as a parasolid you should be able to use that.
Michael
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