Converting 2018 to 2019 files.

[Sade]

So, I'm relatively new to Vectorworks(I recently started learning it for uni), on the computers at uni it's the 2018 version, while at home I downloaded the 2019 version. When i tried to open the file it said it was going to be 'converted and opened' to the 2019 version and be renamed but when I looked for it on my computer I couldn't find it. Is there any way to convert it elsewhere and to stop this happening(I've heard about something called Batch but I'm unsure as it looks complicated)

[Boh]

Not sure exactly what you want but if you only have 2019 at home then to work on any school files at home you'll need to convert them.

 

As you say, when you open them in 2019 it will tell you that it will have to convert and rename. It actually doesn't save it at that point however. You need to hit save and then you get to rename yourself to any location you like. The orig 2018 file will still be there too, unchanged.

[Sade]

@Boh I want to be able to work on the document I had been working on at uni on 2019 version at home. I did this and the document is completely empty.

[Sade]

@Boh But could this be because the version I have at home is watermarked and the one at my uni is not??

[Boh]

Hmm sounds like that could be the case. Sorry not sure about that side of things.

Youcould use your 2019 remotely at school too