topic Re: Opening Old drawings in Project data & BIM

Opening Old drawings

Anonymous — Mon, 22 May 2023 21:47:18 GMT

We have been running ArchiCAD for a number of years now.

Today I needed to open an old version 7 drawing. I loaded up Archicad 8.1 thinking this would open it. It did, but the program immediately became unresponsive. I have tried with different files incase they were somehow corrupted and on different machines. Is there a clever way of opening these for use in 13 or 14?

Thanks

Re: Opening Old drawings

Srinivas — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 12:58:07 GMT

Dear Phil,

Did you check this article of ArchiCADwiki, about opening ArchiCAD 7 files, I think you need ArchiCAD v10 to open v7 files, as i belive from since version 11 we can open only files from archicad 8.1

http://www.archicadwiki.com/Archicad%2010/Project%20Migration/Convert%20ArchiCAD%207.0%20and%20older%20projects%20and%20LAY%20files

Hope this helps.

Re: Opening Old drawings

Anonymous — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 22:25:01 GMT

AC 9 opens anything before
Anything saved with AC9 could be opened with with newer versions