Major differences between AutoCAD 2007 & 2006?

[charlesjueb]

my company is intrested in upgrading from 2006 to 2007, however we work with other firms who still would use 2006, are there issues we should be aware of? would our consultans lose some of the "intellegence" in opening a 2007 format file in 2006?

[rkmcswain]

2007 was a major version change. Meaning mainly that the DWG version has changed.

If you work in 2007, you will have to save down to 2004 format in order for 2006 users to open the drawings. New 2007 entities should survive the round trip back to you as long as the 2006 users don't edit them.

Factor in the reasons to upgrade vs. reasons to stay on 2006. You may find it's better to stay where you are at. Consider all the problems in 2007 also.

[charlesjueb]

yeah, we probibaly will stick with 2006. we just wanted to be aware of what we're missing. 2008 will prob be the next we'd get. thanks for the reply though.

[Mike.Perry]

Hi

Take a look at the following thread, hopefully you will find some of the information found within, helpful / useful...

Differences in AutoCAD 2006 or 07 Lite vs full versions

Have a good one, Mike

[rgorman]

you can also download the Demo and check out the "New Features Workshop". Gives a bit more 'real world' look than just a comparison listing as shown in the whitepaper stuff.

[sinc]

yeah, we probibaly will stick with 2006. we just wanted to be aware of what we're missing. 2008 will prob be the next we'd get. thanks for the reply though.

Hope and pray they have a usable CUI by then...

The 2007 CUI is a vast improvement over the 2006 CUI, but it is still very poor, especially when it comes to Enterprise CUIs...

[robert.1.hall72202]

Now working with 2007 I would have definately stayed on 2006 if it were not for the
subscription my company purchased.

It annoys me daily that I cannot do an iges out from vanilla Cad 07.
I have to open up 2006 and/or MDT for an igesout.

[ccowgill]

We are upgrading in 2 weeks, and I know that not having 3dsout will be a problem, we just learned how to create 3d aerial images using this command, and it looks like I wont be able to any more unless there is an alternate way to combine many 3d faces into a 3d polymesh

[Mike.Perry]

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It annoys me daily that I cannot do an iges out from vanilla Cad 07.
I have to open up 2006 and/or MDT for an igesout.

Hi

Vanilla AutoCAD has nothing to do with IGES support.

IGES support in vanilla AutoCAD was removed many releases ago.

IGES support is coming from your MDT 2006 product, not from AutoCAD 2006.

For more on this subject, take a look HERE.

Have a good one, Mike

[Steve_Bennett]

If you are doing 3D pre-visualization, the dynamic ucs kicks butt.