saving as prevoius version

hi i have a pupil running inventor 2010 at home and we (school) are running 2008. how does he save his work so that we can open from school.

thanks

niall

I didn't think that was possible with Inventor.

As ReMark stated, I dont think it is possible using the inventor file types(.ipt, .iam). He can export his files as other file types but you will loose all the parametric data. Conversly he should be able to open up 2008 files just fine with 2010.

If he would just like to view his stuff i think he can Save Copy As an IGES file or SAT file.

yeah, ive saved ipt files as iges/sat to take into autocad before, but you say that means all the paremetric data is lost.

i suppose that would be acceptable as long as the object was completely finished and did not have any interchangeability issues.

thanks

niall

As previously posted by JD Mather:

"No, you cannot open version 2010 files in earlier releases and there is no mechanism to save as earlier version. The best you can do is save as a neutral format file. I recommend saving as STEP. This only works for ipt and iam, not idw."

You could use something like this:

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/item?siteID=123112&id=12624908

Just a free viewer that allows you to view only (no edit) 2010 Inventor files.

I agree with said all above, only option is a step file but to add to this a step file will not have any history, no looking at how it was built or easy mods to the model.