RE: Switching versions down the road

[Anonymous]

Hello all,

                 I recently purchased Autocad LT, and am trying to decide on a version. The company I work for currently uses Autocad LT 2016, and I have purchased Autocad LT for my personal computer so that, on occasion, I may continue working from home. I notice in my profile page, under downloads, it lets me choose from a variety of versions (2016 through to present version).

My question is, say if I choose to download the 2016 version and then a year from now my work upgrades to 2019, will I be able to switch to a newer version, or am I stuck with Autocad Lt 2016? Will .dwg's transfer well between the versions or would I be converting them in Trueview all the time?

Thanks for any help,

Mike

[pendean · Accepted solution]

Two things to know:

1. As long as you keep paying your annual subscription, you can always go back three versions.
2. Autodesk plans on releasing a newer version some time in March/April: this is likely to drop 2016 from your offerings since it will be more than three versions back. Keep that in mind.

General Info: AutoCAD/LT regardless of version can always SAVEAS down to older variants.