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    I have had multiple drawings from my instructors that I have copied and pasted from a school computer to a flash drive. When I try to reopen the drawings at home on my laptop I get a notice that the dwg cannot be loaded due to it was created on a newer version of ACAD. And then prompts me to load Autocad TrueView. Which has not yet downloaded properly. The open and save options are set to ACAD2013LT at school as well as on my laptop.

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    Default Re: drawing from teacher will not open

    Quote Originally Posted by 1glenking69765453 View Post
    I have had multiple drawings from my instructors that I have copied and pasted from a school computer to a flash drive. When I try to reopen the drawings at home on my laptop I get a notice that the dwg cannot be loaded due to it was created on a newer version of ACAD. And then prompts me to load Autocad TrueView. Which has not yet downloaded properly. The open and save options are set to ACAD2013LT at school as well as on my laptop.
    Whenever i had doubts about saving down versioning, I'd go ahead and save to r12 DXF, which is an old and simple enough file format that just about anything would open it.
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    Default Re: drawing from teacher will not open

    On any PC where the DWG file lives, open Notepad.
    Then drag+drop the DWG file into Notepad.
    When it opens, look at the first 6 characters, compare to the list found here.

    If it is AC1027, then any version of AutoCAD or AutoCAD LT 2013 or newer should be able to open this DWG file.

    If you just need to VIEW (and not EDIT), then just go to https://viewer.autodesk.com and upload the file.

    There is virtually no reason to have to download and install the massive DWG Trueview - just to view a simple DWG file.
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