smt1020
28th Jun 2005, 02:31 pm
I am a Drafting technician for Olsson Associates in Kansas City, Kansas. We are currently in the process of converting to autocad 2005 all new projects are to be Autocad 2005, we were using autocad 2000. My problem is the older projects we do not want to convert because that would mean opening every drawing (which in some cases is up in the hundreds of sheets) so everything works right. If you convert some dwg files and not all dwg files autocad 2005 will not reconize a 2000 dwg for a external refrance and 2000 will not reconize 2005 either. This creates a problem because durring the conversion we are doing some projects in 2000 and some projects in 2005 and some people accadentally open a 2000 drawing in 2005 then save it unknowingly. And to fix the problem we export to Autocad 2000 format but it binds all xrefs (which in a unfinished project is not a good thing), and if we save as 2000 format it gives us around 20 errors telling us the ADT commands have been unloaded. Does anyone know a better way of converting a 2005 dwg to a 2000 dwg that doesn't give any unwanted errors or doesn't bind all xrefs?