Hello
Is it possible to convert an assembly created under SW2014 to SW2013 while keeping the configurations?
The various exchange formats I usually use (IGES, STEP, Parasolid) only take the config at the time of registration. I would like my customer to be able to use the assembly with the configurations.
Thank you for the answer
It's impossible to do
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Hello
Normally in SW2013 SP5 you can open 2014 files.
Only I doubt that the configs will work.
Does anyone have SW2013 SP5 to test?
One day Solidworks will still have to allow us to save in an earlier version. !
@Coincoin37: Hope makes you live!
I think they won't go further than the backward compatibility already present (except this year) with the latest SP.
It's a bit like their business to sell annual updates.
Otherwise there is batchconverter, an axis utility.
To export, choose the Step IGES format...
And in the option/export option checked, create a document for each configuration.
I am a man full of hope@Remrem ;)
@sbadenis: Thanks for the info, indeed, it's apparently the only way to do it (batch converter) but it's not accessible to all Solid users. Once again, we have to put our hands in our pockets.
It's a shame. The configurations are very practical. It's a shame that you can't export them more easily to an earlier version. At the limit, even if you can't modify the file but it would be nice to be able to integrate it into an assembly of an earlier version with all its configurations.
In any case, thank you for your answers.
@.PL: Wouldn't you have an example of macro by chance? I don't use macros at all and I don't know anything about them :-( Thank you
Look at this link, there are 2 examples that may correspond
http://www.3dcontentcentral.fr/Search.aspx?arg=save%20config
And otherwise for the Mycad utilities they are still very practical and their low cost (of memory) compared to the time they save is for me largely justified.
After that, everyone does as they want but the time to adapt a macro or to look for it and the cost would perhaps be amortized?
@sbadenis: Yes, I recognize that MyCad vans are at a very affordable price, I have had them since this year. And even if I don't know how to use them all yet, they are very practical.
But it seems to me that you can't integrate an EDrawing file into an assembly and Batch converter applies the different configs in an Edrawing but not in the STEP or IGES files. So I have to try the macro anyway.
Thank you for your help.