- [Lecturer] While working internally among your peers
at your office or with an office that you collaborate often
you can expect them to have the same SOLIDWORKS version
as you, but oftentimes with dealing with outside vendors
and other different customers you'll find
that they will have an older SOLIDWORKS version
than you have.
This is something you have to take into consideration
when saving data and what's going to happen
when that file reaches them.
Let's walk through the process of opening
a newer SOLIDWORKS version file and what can happen.
Now, a lot of the effects that we're going to see now
are new to SOLIDWORKS as of 2016,
where they offered forward capability
for opening their file types.
And I'm going to show you what I mean right now.
So let's go up again and navigate
to a file that we want to open.
For this situation I have a 3D logo
that I was working on in SOLIDWORKS 2017.
So I'm going to go ahead and click on that and open it up.
Now you can see immediately that in the feature tree
it's noted as a future version of the file,
or the applications' where you can also see
that all of our capabilities have been grayed out,
you no longer have the ability to edit this file
because it's in the future version.
I can click on the surfaces,
I can also go in and measure and take mass properties,
but that's about it, it's simply meant
for evaluation purposes only and not editing.
The true way to open up a SOLIDWORKS file
in an older version is to use
one of the many exporting options
that we'll cover in the Exporting videos.