drawings saved in DraftSight

[Anonymous]

Can not save and then open drawings that have been saved by engineers using Draftsight

[pendean]

Save and then open? Shouldn't that be the other way around or are you talking about doing something wholly unrelated to using AutoCAD in the first place?

Where are you saving these files to? You are probably locked out from their.

[Anonymous]

The following steps led to this problem!

1. Drawing was created in Acad 2000.

2. Drawing was revised using 2015 (saved as 2000, for customers that did not upgrade)

3. Drawing was opened using Draftsight V1R.1 x64, by mechanical design group, and saved as Acad 2000 .dwg.

4. Drawing was then opened with 2015, with notice it was saved by appliciation not developed or licensed by Autodesk.

5. Drawing size was approx. 5 meg, when saved file size was approx. 12 meg.

6. Could not be opened by Acad.

Tried audit and recovery commands. Acad could not recover database.

 I have been able to copy(ctrl-shift-c) from Draftsight and use "special paste" "autocad entities" using "ctrl-shift-v", to get data

into acad, this take hours and hours of editing.

Is there something I can do in either Draftsight or AutoCad, to correct this problem.

[Anonymous]

Request a new file from the design group that did not roundtrip from Draftsight.

[jggerth]

Post the problem drawing, as you received it from Draftsight, and the previous version you sent them to work on..  I've been bouncing bak and forth w/o issues so far.

[vladimir_michl · Accepted solution]

Please note that Draftsight does not save genuine DWG-format files, it only uses the same file extension. This typically leads to many problems using such files in AutoCAD and in other AutoCAD clones (fakes) that use similar mechanisms. Try to use a safer (and documented) CAD file format - DXF.

See also www.cadstudio.cz/budweiser for a DWG compatibility test.

Vladimir Michl, www.cadstudio.cz  www.cadforum.cz