help!-Save back

i use autocad2005 at my school and i had just about finshed a project then i got the "great idea" to get cad2010 on my comp at home and finish so when i get back 2 school i can plot.....well that was the stupidest idea of life!! because the project that i thouched isnt opening in school and i worked really hard on it and im gonna have a heart attack if i cant fix this...please help!!

Try saving back to 2004 DWG format.

KC

Try saving back to 2004 DWG format.

 

KC

Or, save to version 2000, my clients always want *.dwg files in AutoCAD version 2000. Easy enough to open in any future AutoCAD release! :wink:

2005 is also an excellent release, I have '05 installed on my four Thinkpad™ laptops, 2007 is installed on our workstations however, we always save to AutoCAD 2000.

To avoid this happening in the future go to Tools > Options > Open and Save tab. Look in the upper left-hand corner under File Save. See where it says Save as? Change this to AutoCAD 2004 / LT 2004 Drawing (*.dwg). Then click the OK button at the bottom of the Options window. Now you'll be able to open any drawing you save at home using 2010 on your school computer. Keep this setting until you finish school. Only change it if you school upgrades to a newer release of AutoCAD.

Your quick fix is to plot to a PDF at home and the plot the PDF on the school plotter

And if your instructor could not explain how to do this, be very careful about accepting anything else that they teach you.

Glen

If you need to do it today you could download true view on the school computer which will let you open the drawing and print it.

Does TrueView support 2010?

And if your instructor could not explain how to do this, be very careful about accepting anything else that they teach you.

 

Glen

You would be astonished (or maybe not) at how many times this question comes up on the edcommunity forum posed by instructors.

Does TrueView support 2010?

I think it does support 2010

You would be astonished (or maybe not) at how many times this question comes up on the edcommunity forum posed by instructors.

That is just sad. If CAD instructors are that ignorant then they shouldn't be instructors.

That is just sad. If CAD instructors are that ignorant then they shouldn't be instructors.

I learned right out of school that most of my profs wouldn't be able to cut it in the work force

I had the same instructor for three CAD-related classes I took at a community college. By day he taught a high-school AutoCAD course. To try to keep current with the latest releases of AutoCAD he would do an internship over the summer at an architectural firm or mechanical engineering company. He got the gist of the new features in the current release but sometimes, when he returned in the fall, a few of his students were a bit ahead of him. I give the guy credit though. His course was fairly structured and he assigned, collected and graded all homework whether it was answering questions about the required reading or preparing actual drawings. I felt I learned something in each of his courses even though his day job wasn't working "in the field" as an architect or a mechanical engineer.

We had an intern from a local high school a few years ago. She's in school for graphic design now. The school recomended her to us because she had placed high in her CAD classes and was taking an advanced course at another local high school.

Her final there for her advanced CAD class was an essay question

Here is a good AutoCAD question on a release been around for 6 or 7 years.

Thanks for all of your advice i figured it out ...my instructor would def of helped me with it but i didnt ask him lol.... he accepted what i handed in and i will never do something that stupid again:P