Importing old Minicad documents?

[rjtiedeman]

I have an old mac at my studio that I have kept so that I can open old cad files. That machine just died and I now do not have access to old mini cad files

Question?

If I was to update to the latest version of Vectorworks. How far back does it open files so that I can use the contents for reference and or portfolio??

I am presently working with Vectorworks 12.5. But HAD access to MiniCad back to Version 8.

Regards, Bob T

Edited October 12, 2011 by rjtiedeman

[Ray Libby]

I might be wrong, but I believe VW 2012 will import back to VW 12.

[rjtiedeman]

Thanks but I failed to mention that I have been using Vectorworks on a Mac G5 (dead) and now a MacPro 6-Core Intel Xeon 3.33 GHz. I have asked this question in the past and at one time there I thought there was a conversion plug in for old files.

Version 12 is not very far back in time.

Bob T

[MullinRJ]

I was surprised last week when I opened an old file for someone and found that VW 2012 opens files all the way back to MC 7 format. I'm sure NV has mentioned this at some point, but I think they should mention it again and say it a little louder and more often. This gives the software quite a bit of flexibility that it did not have before.

As for saving VW files, VW 2012 will save back to VW 12 format.

Raymond

[maarten.]

About the plugin: There's a standalone program for Windows that looks like VW8 and convert minicad files to VW8 files.

But it seams there's also one for mac (don't know if it still works, haven't test it):

http://www.vectorworks.net/downloads/fundamentals/archived_downloads.php

(at the bottom of that site)

[Diego - Resuelvector]

Yes, but you need a Mac with MacOS Classic, to extract the file, because is a SEA file, self extrating archive used way back in pre-Mac OS X Mac sistems.