Copying drawing from AutoCAD 2010 to 2009

[ccowgill]

It is not that it is too much work, but it is too much work. Isn't the program up-grades suppose to allow us to work faster and not harder? Anyway, what I did was bring the PDF that I was working on into 2010, did all the work saved it, opened it in 2009, pasted what I needed in 2009, and reopened the drawing in 2010. All this because the PDF works best in 2010.

why dont you just paste from 09 into 10? it works perfectly fine going up, its the pasting of objects from 10 into 09 that doesnt work.

[cadtag]

Isn't the program up-grades suppose to allow us to work faster and not harder?

An interesting notion.... sounds like you are a user, not an Autodesk executive or stockholder.

[Mamma Jamma]

Oh, boy I can already tell this upgrade is NOT going to be fun. (2007 to 2010)

We have lots of clients/vendors with whom we need to share drawings. We're lucky if they're using 2004 ACAD. (which is why we only bother to upgrade about every 3 years).
Once I get through this upgrade (if I get through this upgrade), I sure hope I can retire before the next one. We have 3 offices, over 150 people (with more being hired every day it seems), quite a few who are permanently positioned on one job site or another, and many who use LT with varying degrees of proficiency.

...I used to enjoy a challenge...~sigh~

[cwade.109269]

The upgrade shouldn't be too bad, as long as you install 2010 and uninstall all older versions, you can set the default file format as far back as R14 (I wouldn't recommend any further back than 2004, but that's just me).

[Mamma Jamma]

Yes, it's all good. I'll keep telling myself that. Then I'll have people calling, saying they can't copy/paste, or can't plot because the old PC3 files don't work, or they've lost their MEP objects because of saving backward, or forward or whatever it is they've done, or where the heck is the command they use 200 times a day (which will be the least of it, I'm sure). And, if I'm saving to the older version, anyway, well, I can't use the nifty new features, now, can I?
Phooey to upgrades!

Rant mode off, had to let it out!
Sorry...

[hethdotzip]

I was lead to believe that it was not possible to set up different versions of AutoCAD on one machine because the ACAD.exe file gets copied over by the later version of AutoCAD.

Have been keeping AutoCAD 2005 on my laptop purely because the earlier version of DRCAuto works most stablely with this Version. And thought that no way could I install
V2005 onto my big PC along with V2009

I presently have AutoCAD 2009, and thinking of catching the deal this month to upgrade.

Could you please tell me how you loaded both 2009 and 2010 onto your machine, as need to keep 2009 with 2009 DRCAuto, similar to what you have done with your Structural package?

Did you sort your copying problem? I would work within the software <Edit> <Copy> rather than keyboard CTRL-C etc.

Thanks,
Heather

[jaberwok]

Versions 2000,2000i and 2002 could not be installed alongside each other on one machine.
There are no other problems with installing multiple versions of acad.

[ccowgill]

I was lead to believe that it was not possible to set up different versions of AutoCAD on one machine because the ACAD.exe file gets copied over by the later version of AutoCAD.

Have been keeping AutoCAD 2005 on my laptop purely because the earlier version of DRCAuto works most stablely with this Version. And thought that no way could I install
V2005 onto my big PC along with V2009

I presently have AutoCAD 2009, and thinking of catching the deal this month to upgrade.

Could you please tell me how you loaded both 2009 and 2010 onto your machine, as need to keep 2009 with 2009 DRCAuto, similar to what you have done with your Structural package?

Did you sort your copying problem? I would work within the software <Edit> <Copy> rather than keyboard CTRL-C etc.

Thanks,
Heather

in newer versions of AutoCAD, when they are installed, they get put in their own folder (Program files\AutoCAD 2009, Program files\AutoCAD 2010. Therefore allowing you to load both programs. If you are going between drawing formats, copying between drawings wont work. I dont remember how edit copy works, if you are refering to copy selection, it will not work betwen drawings no mater what format you are doing, if edit->copy is the same as windows copy, then there is no difference between that and CTRL+C

[cadtag]

CTRL-C is just a shortcut for edit copy -- which copies to the windows clipboard. to get between file formats, (eg 2010 to 2009, 2004, etc) use WBlock, and Insert.

[jasonp]

I just ran into 2010 to 2009 conversion of MEP products that was stripping 3D information out on the saveas 2007 version. After finding this thread, scratching my head, and various wblocks, exports etc. I finally figured out why the 3D objects were converting down to polylines like previous posters mentioned. It ended up being a display representation problem. After correcting the displayrep in the 2010 file, the save down worked with minimal impact.

Hopefully this helps others, it took about 2 hours to figure out what was going on.