AECTOACAD - Helping those with older versions of Autocad

“Custom objects provide additional capabilities to the program and related products. When the application that created the custom object is not available, a proxy object is substituted in its place.” - Autocad 2008 User guide

As autocad provide new features and we implement those features, saving down the old fashion (“save as”) way can leave custom object issues for older version of Autocad, i.e. it won’t open the file. AectoAcad command is there to take up where “save as” leaves off. This command explodes and removes the custom objects, instead of recreating custom objects to work in older versions.

Type in AECTOACAD and this line below will pop up. Don’t press it yet, but if you press ENTER, it will ask you for a filename.

Export options [Format/Bind/bind Type/Maintain/Prefix/Suffix/?] <Enter for filename>:

Type F for FORMAT.

Enter file format [r14/2000/2004/2007] <2007>:

Type in the Format. Then you will be back at the first set of options. Now you can press ENTER.

Export options [Format/Bind/bind Type/Maintain/Prefix/Suffix/?] <Enter for filename>:

Save it as a different file name from the original. It will not allow you to save it with the same name. The file will save down to the version you set without giving problems to lower versions.