Using a 2013 .dwg in 2011

[jwebb88]

Hi everyone,

We've recently done some work for an engineering firm, and have also recently upgraded to Civil 2013.

It turns out they are using Civil 2011, and obviously are unable to open our drawing. As far as I'm aware, they need a TIN surface and cogo points, but I'm unsure of how to provide them with this other than reproccessing the job on an older version of Civil.

I'm thinking that I might be able to export to LandXML to keep all my points and surface, and then just export to Autocad 2010 for the linework? Is there some other, easier, way of doing it than this?

Regards,

Jeremy

[neilyj666 · Accepted solution]

That's about your only option..

One day all these annoying annual version incomaptibilities will cease and we will all be able to share freely with any other version......oh. wait a minute, then how will Autodesk persuade everyone to buy the latest and greatest version...

[rkmcswain]

I encourage my management to find out differences in software up front when working with new partners, clients, subs, etc. - because I have seen a ridiculous amount of time spent by both parties trying to save down, export, explode, send files back and forth, etc. etc....

There isn't much we can do about the incompatibilities, but at least if you know up front that there will be some extra time involved in sharing files, that cost can be built into the project.

[neilyj666]

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@rkmcswain wrote:

I encourage my management to find out differences in software up front when working with new partners, clients, subs, etc. - because I have seen a ridiculous amount of time spent by both parties trying to save down, export, explode, send files back and forth, etc. etc....

There isn't much we can do about the incompatibilities, but at least if you know up front that there will be some extra time involved in sharing files, that cost can be built into the project.

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Indeed...but Autodesk could if they wanted to I'm sure but I don't imagine they ever will.