Is ACAD 2006 .dwg compatible with Cvl 3D 2010? I assume it is...
A Civil 3D 2010 will open and read the 2006 dwg. If you save it, it will then be an ACAD 2010 dwg.
> A Civil 3D 2010 will open and read the 2006 dwg. If you save it, it will then be an ACAD 2010 dwg.
Unless you use Save As.
Thanks!
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'Save as' from any version of Civil3d is virtually worthless unless your drawing only contains lines and arcs. Once we move our drawings 'up' to our current version of Civil3d we do it with the understanding there is no going back. The incompatibility between versions of Civil 3d is a major pain. So much so that we work it into our contracts that all data will be provided on XXXX platform only. If someone wants a file converted it will cost them, if it can even happen at all. There are numerous instances where it's damn near impossible and certainly not cost productive to save things back to older versions.
Exactly. "Save As" is virtually useless in C3D.
You can export to earlier releases, destroying all your civil data, and combine that as best you can with the LandXML data, but even that only goes back so far. Autodesk seems to expect every user to stay on the latest release of C3D, and everyone else can go suck it.