New files into old version of SW?

[me]

I know I should upgrade, but money is tight. In the meantime, is
there a way for my clients to save their files, which are created in
SW 2004, in a Solidworks format that can be opened by my old 2001 plus
SW? Or, is saving them in IGES format the only choice? IGES will
give me a read-only file, right?

Thanks for any help.

Dick

dick at antiochsys.com

 

[Dan Bovinich \(home\)]

You can have them save them in IGES, step, sat, parasolid and your SW 2001+
will read them all. You just won't have a tree to modify them. They will
come in as a "dumb" solid. You can add to and cut the dumb solid, it just
won't be as easy as if they were in SW 2004.

Dan

 

[me]

Thaks for the excellent and amazingly prompt reply.

 

[cadishaq]

Save as parasolid. If you have office you might be able to use the
featureworks add in to give you some feature history.

Respect