saving an x9 as an earlier version

[cherokeechief79]

at work we use x9 but I teach school at night and they are still on x8.

sometimes ill do something or make changes to a file in x9.

I always thought you could save backwards to say x8 or x6 but maybe im thinking way back with ver 9.

now ive gotta save as a dxf and apply all new toolpaths again.

no way around this right?

 

[Guest]

You could never save toolpath backwards

[JAMMAN]

Unless it was pre V3.2 JP has a point. I have no idea what happened in pre 3.2.

 

I do a lot of .IGS of geometry and surfaces for reading on other systems. No way around it.

 

Just load X8 and use that for the school work, I still have X6 X7 and X8 for that reason and the hasp will let you use the old versions still.

[jeff]

at work we use x9 but I teach school at night and they are still on x8.

sometimes ill do something or make changes to a file in x9.

I always thought you could save backwards to say x8 or x6 but maybe im thinking way back with ver 9.

now ive gotta save as a dxf and apply all new toolpaths again.

no way around this right?

You can save the file as an earlier version ( I think X9 goes back to X5), but as JP said you can't save toolpaths to an earlier version.

 

X5 goes back to V8

[JAMMAN]

I can't find that option is it a C-hook or something? Please do tell.

[htm01]

you can't

[gcode]

I think early X versions could save geometry back to an earlier release, but we've never been able to do that to toolpaths

I believe that was lost at X4 or 5

[Gary]

When it went 64bit that option was lost. 

[Jayson Kramer]

cherokeechief79, like stated you cannot save geo back as a version as of X6 when the 64bit option came out. but you can install the HLE version of X8 sense it save as a Emcx file format you will be able to use it at school.

 

When your school move to X9 you will loose the option of saving to a MCX file format and only able to use the EMCX format.