topic Re: Placing an external .dwg drawing into Archicad 17 in Collaboration with other software https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Collaboration-with-other/Placing-an-external-dwg-drawing-into-Archicad-17/m-p/244075#M31523 Can you get the DWG saved as an earlier version? Wed, 16 Dec 2015 20:16:44 GMT Anonymous 2015-12-16T20:16:44Z Placing an external .dwg drawing into Archicad 17 https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Collaboration-with-other/Placing-an-external-dwg-drawing-into-Archicad-17/m-p/244074#M31522 <DIV class="actalk-migrated-content"><T>I am trying to place an external .dwg drawing into Archicad 17 and keep getting the following error. (Unsupported dxf/dwg file format). Can anyone help please.</T></DIV> Wed, 16 Dec 2015 16:24:41 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Collaboration-with-other/Placing-an-external-dwg-drawing-into-Archicad-17/m-p/244074#M31522 Anonymous 2015-12-16T16:24:41Z Re: Placing an external .dwg drawing into Archicad 17 https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Collaboration-with-other/Placing-an-external-dwg-drawing-into-Archicad-17/m-p/244075#M31523 Can you get the DWG saved as an earlier version? Wed, 16 Dec 2015 20:16:44 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Collaboration-with-other/Placing-an-external-dwg-drawing-into-Archicad-17/m-p/244075#M31523 Anonymous 2015-12-16T20:16:44Z Re: Placing an external .dwg drawing into Archicad 17 https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Collaboration-with-other/Placing-an-external-dwg-drawing-into-Archicad-17/m-p/244076#M31524 DWG TrueView from Autodesk will let you convert your DWG file to an earlier version:<BR /> <BR /> <A href="http://www.autodesk.com/products/dwg/viewers" target="_blank">http://www.autodesk.com/products/dwg/viewers</A>#<BR /> <BR /> It is a free download.<BR /> <BR /> However, DWG file version may not be the program. As far as I know the version of DWG has not changed since AutoCAD 2013. So the last 4 versions use the same DWG format. And ARCHICAD 17 can read DWG 2013 files.<BR /> So if it still does not open even after converting to an earlier version then something else may be the problem. Maybe the file has some element in it that ARCHICAD cannot read (just guessing). Fri, 18 Dec 2015 11:26:37 GMT https://community.graphisoft.com/t5/Collaboration-with-other/Placing-an-external-dwg-drawing-into-Archicad-17/m-p/244076#M31524 Laszlo Nagy 2015-12-18T11:26:37Z