@pendean wrote:
AutoCADMobile, the app previous know as AutoCAD360, just like everyon answering this original question has been pointing to, is here https://client.autocad360.com/#/filemanager.html
A360 is unrelated (not sure why you went there and ignored all the links discussed) is only a viewer/file storage service that's been retired https://a360.autodesk.com/a360-desktop/
Are you just getting distracted by the "360" labels? There is no direct path to AutoCADMobile from inside AutoCAD for Mac (or Windows), never has been.
If you're going to be snippy with me and imply that I didn't bother to read all the previous posts, you would have made a stronger case if you had bothered to read my entire post. It doesn't matter how many people tell me to do something. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work. And if I wasn't confused about something, I wouldn't have come here to seek help in the first place, would I? So just take it easy on a confused guy, ok?
I went there because, as I mentioned initially, the links that people have posted didn't work. At least not without downloading yet more clutter on my system in the form of another piece of 3rd party software. Why the site should fail to recognize the native macOS browser is beyond me, though apparently it worked for Maxim. It would be nice to know what the difference is?
Pardon me for looking for an unobtrusive work around using the facilities that I already have.
And why should I be confused just because AutoDesk has a dozen different apps/utilities/websites that are all random conglomerations of the letter "A", words that start with "A", and the number 360 which then may or may not have additional words attached, none of which are the same or talk to each other? And why am I still getting automatic updates on a piece of software that has been retired? And why does the Mac version of AutoCad, which is updated significantly later than the PC version (it was 16 months this last time, wasn't it?) NOT have a readily available conversion utility? It makes no sense.
For the most part, you can ignore the "whys" above. That's just frustration talking, and I think we all know the answer to most of those is that Macs are barely an afterthought to AutoDesk. Right now I am more interested in the "hows".
Right now, I am working on two work-arounds.
First, TrueView has a new version out. For PC only, of course, but if you have one lying around that can at least limp along with Windows 10, then that should at least provide one way to get past the problem. Downloading now. You can find that (along with some other viewers) here: https://www.autodesk.com/products/dwg/viewers#
I don't have time right now to wait on that slow computer, so I am going to assume that that PC-based work-around will actually work. I will post back later if there are issues.
Second, yes, I bit my tongue on the need to download third party software (Chrome) and went ahead and did it. Yes, I was able to access the link that has already been posted: client.autocad360.com/#/filemanager.html. I am now looking at a list of my files there. Now what? I can open the files that i have there, so that's good. I uploaded a 2018 format file that a client sent me, and I can get into it to view it, so that's good. However, I am not seeing a way to convert, save as, download or any other way to change it to the previous file format so I can open it in my AutoCAD 2017 LT for Mac. If I download it, it doesn't give me any options, just BOOM, it's downloaded. What am I missing? The file conversion to use on the Mac is the whole point of the exercise.
Can I open it directly from this location through AutoCAD? Let's see, file... open... yes, I can click on AutoDesk 360... This looks promising.... Wait. No. The file is not there. Neither are a bunch of other files that I have used on the mobile app months ago, so I know it's not a matter of waiting for it to refresh. They were listed on that file manager site. So where is this AutoDesk 360 directory looking if it is not the AutoCAD 360 folder that I guess is actually AutoCAD360Mobile even though it is not labeled as such. (I don't know why anyone would be confused by this. It all seems perfectly straightforward.)
So, seriously though, if client.autocad360.com/#/filemanager.html is the gateway to convert a file backwards from 2018 to 2013, what is the magic combination to actually accomplish the conversion? More details, please? Anyone?
