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Opening older version drawings
I had been using a 2001 or 2002 version of AutoCad and had saved the drawings to a CD. Now many years later I have AutoCad 2017. How do I open the drawings on the CD in the latest version of AutoCad?
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Just as you do any drawings. Newer versions of AutoCAD are all backward-compatible with older drawing file formats. [Not quite that far back, but I just opened a drawing last saved in 2003 with Acad2017, with no problem.]
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Hi,
+1 with Kent!
I just want to add: files on CD are write protected, so you might get a message that you can only open that file(s) readonly.
So copy them to a local folder (or network folder), select them (the copied ones) in Windows Explorer ==> right-click ==> properties ==> uncheck the readonly-flag if it is set.
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