AutoCAD 2016 templates

[scott602141]

Autodesk has the AutoCAD 2016 template files available for download. Should I read anything into this? Isn't this a couple of months ahead of schedule?
should I read anything into the fact that 2015 opens the .dwt files. (No file format change?)
any thouhghts on this? Is this typical and I just haven't noticed it in the past?

[BlackBox]

Autodesk has the AutoCAD 2016 template files available for download. Should I read anything into this? Isn't this a couple of months ahead of schedule?
should I read anything into the fact that 2015 opens the .dwt files. (No file format change?)
any thouhghts on this? Is this typical and I just haven't noticed it in the past?

[scott602141]

The Autodesk link is now dead, so this must have been a mistake?

[Tom Beauford]

I downloaded them as soon as someone posted about it. Then opened them in 2015 which didn't make sense since 2016 should be a new platform. I'm guessing mistake as well.

[cadtag]

I downloaded them as soon as someone posted about it. Then opened them in 2015 which didn't make sense since 2016 should be a new platform. I'm guessing mistake as well.

Maybe Autodesk is growing up and realizing that customer's neither want nor need a newly incompatible file format on a regular three year cycle?

[Tom Beauford]

Maybe Autodesk is growing up and realizing that customer's neither want nor need a newly incompatible file format on a regular three year cycle?

Possible, but I doubt it since vertical's like Civil 3D come with a newly incompatible file format every year.

[cadtag]

well, c3d 2013, 2014, and 2015 are 'sorta' compatible. with some caveats and gotchas that make it a less than stellar idea to mix n match versions

[dgorsman]

Possible, but I doubt it since vertical's like Civil 3D come with a newly incompatible file format every year.

Object data format, not DWG file format. The DWG organization is still the same but the object have more or different data associated with them that earlier Civil3D code won't know what to do with (ie. it could get mangled or erased, leaving invalid pointers elsewhere). New features and some of the fixes require additional/other data, so if the data is "locked in" these wouldn't be possible.