Drawing Version?

[feargt]

Hi,

how can I find out which version of autocad a drawing was last saved in. I e transmitted a drawing to a customer as 2004, we use 2008, but he maintains he cannot open it. In the text file that is generated with the e-transmit it says the drawing was saved in 2004 format. But I want to see that on the drawing itself somewhere. Is there a system variable that I can check? any ideas welcome

thanks

[lpseifert]

Acadver....


Stores the AutoCAD version number. This variable differs from the DXF file $ACADVER header variable, which contains the drawing database level number.

17.0s (LMS Tech) AutoCAD 2007
16.2s (LMS Tech) AutoCAD 2006
16.1s (LMS Tech) AutoCAD 2005
16.0 AutoCAD 2004

I use 2008 and acadver returns 17.1s (LMS Tech)

[feargt]

I tried that, twice, once I saved the drawing as 2004 then closed and reopened it, typed acadver but it returned 17.1 which is for 2008. It made me think that this variable is just for the version of autocad that is being used

[lpseifert]

Look here
http://www.ny.nrcs.usda.gov/technical/NYCADD/drawing_version.html. (http://www.ny.nrcs.usda.gov/technical/NYCADD/drawing_version.html)

I just saved a dwg (2008), opened it in notepad and the first 6 characters were AC1021

[rkmcswain]

I tried that, twice, once I saved the drawing as 2004 then closed and reopened it, typed acadver but it returned 17.1 which is for 2008. It made me think that this variable is just for the version of autocad that is being used

ACADVER only reports the version of AutoCAD being used, it has nothing to do with the version of the current drawing file.

To find the version of a drawing, you can open the drawing in Notepad and look at the first six bytes and compare to this table:
http://rkmcswain.blogspot.com/2005/07/autocad-release-history.html

You can also install this tool, which will give you a different windows icon for each drawing version: http://www.cushat.co.uk/di/

[feargt]

To find the version of a drawing, you can open the drawing in Notepad and look at the first six bytes and compare to this table:
http://rkmcswain.blogspot.com/2005/07/autocad-release-history.html


brilliant, exactly what I needed and it proved me right too!!! thanks again

[architecture68-raff]

Is it possible that your drawings contains AEC objects that cannot be opened in vanilla Autocad, thus resulting in your clients problems?

For what it's worth, I have had similar problem with clients saying they can't open drawings which have been saved down with e-transmit or by save as.

In those cases, using DWG TrueView (or the late TrueConvert) converted down to files the client said he could open.