Can't open an older vectorworks drawing HELP

[jidherrera]

I have a few vectorwork drawings that I need to open from 1994. I have vectorworks 2008. Can't open them. Any suggestions?

[Ray Libby]

You could contact customer support and they would help, or post the files here and someone with an older version could translate them for you.

[jidherrera]

Can't upload the files. If anyone can give me an email address that I can send them the files I would appreciate it greatly.

[Ray Libby]

If you open the Minicad files in a text editor you can tell what version they were saved as.

[jidherrera]

Attached a screen shot of what i see when i open it in text editor. Makes no sense to me.

[Kevin McAllister]

I have always wondered why there isn't an online translation resource. Upload your old file and get emailed a link to your converted file. I can't imagine it would be hard to do and would save all of us long time users from having to have older systems (ie. Classic Mac OS) to translate certain versions).

Kevin

[Pat Stanford]

We need the very first line of the file opened in the text editor to be able to see the version. It looks like you are scrolled down a little bit.

Email the file(s) to the email in my signature and I will see what I can do with them.

[Ray Libby]

I was able to convert files to VW2008. VW 9 wouldn't open them but VW 8 did, so I would assume they are Minicad 5 files. There was nothing in the text to indicate version, maybe they started doing that in later versions.