Topic: Can anyone tell me why I cant open this dwg in 2009?

[Pad]

Hello,

It was produced with 2014 lt, It will open in 2014, its saved as 2004 I think, but I cant open it.
Autocad freezes when opening.  It doesn't appear to have a large scale list, I'm not sure what else to look for.
Any idea what could be preventing it and how to fix it?

Thanks
Pads

[Rob...]

SAVE AS is not the proper way to save a drawing to a previous version. While it does work with some files, it really should be done using EXPORTTOAUTOCAD.

[Matt__W]

It's definitely a 2004 DWG.  I haven't tried opening it yet (I only have 2015 MEP).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.dwg#Version_history

[Matt__W]

I ran the AECTOACAD command on your drawing and saved down to 2004.  Try this version.

[Rob...]

On a side note, I don't think vanilla AutoCAD recognizes AECTOACAD but I may be wrong.

[Pad]

thanks for the replies.
Ive tried exporttoautocad and the aectoacad version but it still freezes.
looks like it gets to 24% then the freeze happens.
Weird.

[Pad]

also tried dxfout from acad 2014.

[Pad]

Its a pain.  I need this drawing on site tomorrow using my laptop which only has 2009.
P

[Rob...]

How about trying Drawing True View, which is free from AutoDesk, to convert it?

[Pad]

Ive tried that, but thanks for the idea, I also have any dwg dxf converter, it converts it fine, but I cant open it.  I think my next step is to open in 2014 and copy clip everything into a fresh drawing.

P

[Matt__W]

Were you able to open the DWG I converted??

[Pad]

no, same thing happened.
I'm copying everything out into a fresh drawing, hopefully this will do it.,

[Rob...]

Do you have any proxy objects in the 2014 version? If so, you will need to get the object enabler.

[Pad]

Not that I know of.  Copyclip into a fresh drawing doesn't even work..

[Matt__W]

Try this one.  I removed the PDF that wasn't found.  Just curious if maybe that's the reason it's hanging up for you.