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Opening Blocks

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Forum Name: AutoCAD
Forum Description: Discussion about AutoCAD and AutoCAD LT, viewers, DWG and DWF formats, Design Review, AutoCAD 360, add-ons
URL: https://www.cadforum.cz/forum_en/forum_posts.asp?TID=2072
Printed Date: 22.Apr.2026 at 14:50


Topic: Opening Blocks
Posted By: Bri008
Subject: Opening Blocks
Date Posted: 06.Jun.2009 at 01:32

Comming up incompatible version when I try and open blocks on this site. I have autocad 2000?


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Posted By: AmerieWhite
Date Posted: 07.Jun.2009 at 16:40
DWG or DXF? If it is a DXF, you can open the drawing in Notepad and find if there is AC****, you can refer to the following details and find which drawing version it is.

AC1015 - DWG from AutoCAD 2000/2000i/2002 (or LT, Map or relative Desktop version).
AC1018 - DWG from AutoCAD 2004/2005/2006 (or other product in the "2004", "2005" or "2006" family).
AC1021 - DWG  from AutoCAD 2007/2008/2009 (or other product of the "2007", "2008" and "2009" families).
AC1024 - DWG from AutoCAD 2010 (or other product of the "2010" family).

If you got the 'incompatible' message, it may be a higher version than 2000. You can try the version conversion feature of this software and get 2000 version draiwng for your AutoCAD:
http://www.autodwg.com/DWG_DXF_Converter/ - http://www.autodwg.com/DWG_DXF_Converter/

Hope this helps.



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Amerie White

Posted By: Bri008
Date Posted: 07.Jun.2009 at 18:22
Hi,
 
It's dwg file, will download and see if it opens it.
 
Cheers,

Posted By: AmerieWhite
Date Posted: 08.Jun.2009 at 03:00
I just got a try and found that DWG can also be open up in Notepad although there are lots of messy, but there is "AC****" there that you can find in first line first word.



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Amerie White

Posted By: Vladimir Michl
Date Posted: 08.Jun.2009 at 13:33
You don't need Notepad nor any third-party application. Autodesk DWG TrueView 2010 (see the Download page here) opens any DWG file and saves it to an older version of DWG (incl. DWG2000).
 
Using non-Autodesk tools for DWG conversion results in unreliable files in a non-genuine DWG file format.


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