I am having severe compatibility issues and I am confused as to how we can, as users, can let this happen. Surely I am not the only one with this problem.
We had some consultants switch to 2008, so we decided to do some testing and upgrade ourselves. In our testing, we have found some severe issues with our current version (2006). First, if you saveas 2004 and then try to re-open in 2006, aec objects no longer show up correctly nor can you recreate or edit existing objects that were created in 2006 to begin with. I realize that Autodesk puts up a warning about this. But, how would we react if Autodesk made lines, arcs, and circles incompatible with previous versions. Are we going to be that complacent?
Second, we use Detail Component Manager (DCM) a ton. However, components created in 2006 create an error when we try to edit them in 2008. The binary compatibility of everything appears to be broken.
I want real solutions to these issues (exporting to AutoCAD and destroying my files is not a real solution). Even an object enabler for 2008 objects in 2006 would be nice.
In the meantime, I want people to think about how our customers would react if we did this kind of crap to them. We should not allow Autodesk to think that they are soooo powerful that they can get away with it.
I won't even start on the issues that I am waiting for patches on (accamera.arx fatal error for one).