Apparently you can edit Civil 2014 files in 2013 with a few exceptions e.g.pressure pipes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XD1K-5GS02M
neilyj (No connection with Autodesk other than using the products in the real world)
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Interoperability / backward compatibility is great news!
Glad to see AutoDesk is adding this much needed option and hopefully this can be expanded it to a minimum 2 releases backward in the future. (Since 2013 was a new file format, makes sense it only works for 2014 working with 2013 files)
This will definitely help the Civil 3D community with project collaboration moving forward.
Can we here a resounding
"Hooraayyyyyy!!!!!!!!"
Rick Jackson
Survey CAD Technician VI
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Another exception is DREFs. It will appear as a strandalone object in 2013 which is editable. Not so good, but how would the code get around this I don't know. Open the same file in 2014 and the DREF is reloaded from the source file.
This was done becasue if a DREF is not found in 2014, the object still shows! Very cool. It's like the object exists as a standalone object, but if the source file is found it is used. Obviously, 2013 does not have this feature, so it IS a standalone object.
Still, working in a mixed environment in your own office (2013 and 2014 seats) is an undesirable situation.
Yes they can. See my post.
http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/AutoCAD-Civil-3D/Civil-3D-2014-New-Features/td-p/3816516
Sounds good Matt. So if I'm in 2013 and another office sends me a 2014 file I can use everything in it, even if they were dref items not promoted into the file! (Except pressure networks?)
Does the user in 2014 have to perform a "Save As" to 2013 for this to work?
Mark Green
Working on Civil 3D in Canada
You can use everything in it within reason. Objects that don't exist in 2013 will be rendered as proxy objects. Some objects, including DREFs will have odd behavior, since the way they are used in 2014 has changed.
See here:
No SAVEAS will be requyired, just open the file.
Since XP is no longer supported, having this interoperability will allow for XP users with 2013 to work with newer version users for at least another year.
We recently upgraded a few computers to 2014 and were told it was completely backward compatible (except pressure networks, dref's) We are having issues opening 2014 dwg's in 2013. no pressure networks, just point, surfaces, alignments, profiles, profile views, attached sheet set propoerties, multiple layouts, and attached images. Comes up on the screen and immediately fatal errors. Any ideas? Doesn't matter wich computer, no 2014 dwg will open in 2013.
We ran into some issues recently with 2013 files also after installing IDS 2014. After running a repair of 2013 our errors & FE's went away. Worth trying.
Thanks, but it didn't seem to fix it.
We are also experiencing the same issue when opening a 2014 file from 2013. The AutoCAD instance immediately fails.