Topic: 2008 Template Bug

[ELOQUINTET]

FYI

I am testing 2008 and was working with our template. I have it set in my options to save as 2004. I saved our template at some point yesterday and today everyone using 2006 when creating a new drawing were not able to use our template. They selected the template and it opened a drawing which looked like drawing1 (an empty drawing with layout 1 and 2 tabs). I opened up the DWG version of the file and did a saveas to 2004 then saved that as a .dwt and they were able to use it again.

[Dinosaur]

There was a dwg format change with the 2007 release.  2006 was still using the 2004 dwg format.

[jonesy]

I thought it had always been like that with DWTs. I know I have in the past, had to create the template on the oldest version in the office, just to make sure everyone can use it.

[sinc]

But at least you could do it...   

With Civil-3D, either everyone moves to 2008 or everyone stays on 2007.  There's no mixing the two at all.

[ELOQUINTET]

I know there was a format change somewhere along the way but isn't that why they have the save option in options and shouldn't it apply to template files as well. I think it should but maybe that's just me. The logic of having to make changes to the template on the oldest version of autocad seems absurd as I am really trying to test the newest version. Anyway just thought I'd share my discovery that's all.

[Luke]

I just finished going through this exact same issue.  You do not actually have to create your template in older version.  We have 2008 & 2006.  I did all my creation and development in 2008.  It is set to save down to 2000.  When I tried running 2006 it did not recognize the format eventhough it was saved down.  All I had to do is all of my development in 2008.  Once I was happy with my template I opened it up with 2006 and saved it using 2006.

However we have 2006 on every machine and IT has now put 2008 on every machine (i think) problem is some folks are not using 2008 yet.  don't ask why.  But by having a template that is not compatible with any version older than 2008, it will force thos users still on 2006 to finally switch.