English 2012 to Japanese 2009 VW- Possible?

[Knicole]

Hi,

I am interning for a firm in Japan that uses Japanese VW 2009 on a MacBook. However, I am still getting the hang of Vectorworks and wanted to use my English 2012 version on my PC. How can I convert my file so that it will actually work on the firm's system? The only text is in the classes and layers, so I hope that is not a problem.

I have tried exporting as an earlier version in VW, dwg, and dxf form. No luck so far. Any advice would be much appreciated!

Thanks,

Nicole

[PVA - Admin]

Are you exporting the file to 2009 format? When they attempt to open it, what occurs?

[Knicole]

Hi,

I am not able to open the 2012 English created file in the 2009 Japanese VW. I have tried exporting it as a VW 2009 format and as dwg and dxf files.

When I go to open either the original or exported 2009 format files (both ending in .vwx) the menu image for both is the classic black box with "exec" in green on the upper left. Once clicked, it tells me in Japanese that the file was created using a different year or version of VW and cannot be opened. I have tried changing the name of the 2009 export to a Japanese character plus .vwx, but also no luck. I am not able to select the dwg or dwx files at all.

Thanks for responding! It is so appreciated!

[Knicole]

Hi,

I am still not able to open the file at all. Any thoughts for what I can do?

Thanks,

Nicole

[PVA - Admin]

Send one of those files in to tech@vectorworks.net and we can have a closer look.

[Knicole]

Great! It is on its way. Thank you so much!