DwgConvert Read Error

DwgConvert Read Error

ConquerorChivalrous
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DwgConvert Read Error

ConquerorChivalrous
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I am using the DWGCONVERT command to convert file from 2020 to (standard) 2014, when I covert some dwg files I receive error message that the following files could not be read

@Alfred.NESWADBA

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paullimapa
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Have you tried using AutoCAD to open that drawing in question to see if can be opened? Perhaps that dwg is corrupted and may require recovery or maybe that dwg doesn’t exist at all?


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Alfred.NESWADBA
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Hi,

 

>> DWGCONVERT command to convert file from 2020

You are using AutoCAD 2014, this version of AutoCAD can't open a file that was saved with AutoCAD 2020 (which by default saves in DWG-2018 format).

 

You can download Autodesk DWG TrueView (which is free), here you can open newer files and save them back.

 

- alfred -

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