JasonWD Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 Hi All I now have 2016 on my machines and the people I mainly deal with are still on 2010 (they only use VW in 2D so are slow to upgrade) Is there a way to save as 2010 from 2016; for instance I don't know if you can run an older version with a licence from the newer? Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted January 12, 2016 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted January 12, 2016 Vectorworks 2016 can save back to Vectorworks 2011, but no older. There were so many changes, even down to how solids were handled that the exports to these versions were no longer reliable. You CAN export from 2016 > 2011 and then export from 2011 > 2010 if you absolutely need to, but its possible geometry would not behave properly afterwards going so many versions back. Quote Link to comment
JasonWD Posted January 12, 2016 Author Share Posted January 12, 2016 Thanks Jim Can I use 2011 with my licence then? Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted January 12, 2016 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted January 12, 2016 No, you would have had to have a serial number for Vectorworks 2011 at some point. You might be able to contact sales about getting access to an older version than the one you have now and getting a 2011 serial number however, but the policies on that can change from distributor to distributor. I am not sure if it will be possible but it doesn't hurt to ask. Quote Link to comment
JasonWD Posted May 18, 2016 Author Share Posted May 18, 2016 Thanks Jim; just to follow up, the Canadian distributor managed to wangle me a 2015 licence until everyone else caught up, which thankfully they have now! Quote Link to comment
Vectorworks, Inc Employee PVA - Admin Posted May 19, 2016 Vectorworks, Inc Employee Share Posted May 19, 2016 Excellent, I am glad they were able to assist. Thank you for letting me know it turned out well. Quote Link to comment
Tonero Michele Posted December 26, 2017 Share Posted December 26, 2017 On 12/1/2016 at 3:41 PM, JasonWD said: Hi All I now have 2016 on my machines and the people I mainly deal with are still on 2010 (they only use VW in 2D so are slow to upgrade) Is there a way to save as 2010 from 2016; for instance I don't know if you can run an older version with a licence from the newer? I have the same problem (2008)! Quote Link to comment
Jim Smith Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 If you can't get hold of an older licence, you could do what a Millwork shop I deal with does. They run VW 10 (not VW 2010 but TEN!) and will send me a DWG file. When I send them a file it's a bit of an effort as I have to export to older versions several times & this involves using a machine that runs an older OSX package. Quote Link to comment
Tonero Michele Posted December 27, 2017 Share Posted December 27, 2017 A delirium! I do not understand why not give me an old serial number or create a VectorWorks Importer / exporter. Quote Link to comment
zoomer Posted December 29, 2017 Share Posted December 29, 2017 On 27.12.2017 at 5:39 PM, Tonero Michele said: or create a VectorWorks Importer / exporter. On 12.1.2016 at 3:58 PM, JimW said: Vectorworks 2016 can save back to Vectorworks 2011, but no older. There were so many changes, even down to how solids were handled that the exports to these versions were no longer reliable. You CAN export from 2016 > 2011 and then export from 2011 > 2010 if you absolutely need to, but its possible geometry would not behave properly afterwards going so many versions back. Quote Link to comment
Tonero Michele Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 On 29/12/2017 at 1:26 AM, zoomer said: "or create a VectorWorks Importer / exporter." Quote Link to comment
zoomer Posted December 30, 2017 Share Posted December 30, 2017 (edited) It just tried to quote the reason why it is not so easy by way how VW works. There is no real compatibility to collaborate with different versions. Even one-way. An experience that even users made that switched form VW 2018 back to VW 2017, that they get their PIOs back but couldn't edit some of these again in VW 2017. There are other Apps that have more lucky choices of how data is stored that can read old file's data without issues and old versions can even read new files, just warning that newer features will be ignored. But this is unfortunately not the case here and so will not be much fun. As far as I remember people were provided with older serials and downloads if they asked or support tried to convert some files for them. And I think the idea with DWG exchange workaround that was mentioned isn't that bad either. Especially when it is about 2D only from older versions. Edited December 30, 2017 by zoomer Quote Link to comment
Tonero Michele Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 Thank you, but this is not a solution, this is a patch to plug a hole. We hope that the same thing does not happen with BIM, but it will happen! Quote Link to comment
zoomer Posted December 31, 2017 Share Posted December 31, 2017 I think it was mentioned that a drawing file update is in the works that will avoid such depndencies. But only future VW versions may profit. So far the situation is a bit inconvenient. For BIM it is similar. IFC formats improve over the years and older software can‘t open newer IFCs. Older IFCs won’t export all features. As a professional user there is not much chance to escape the update cycles. And every relaese you skip makes it harder to follow and adapt to the current version. Quote Link to comment
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