
Attendees will get a FREE subscription to DraftSight Professional and get the chance to participate in technical sessions to learn DraftSight tips and tricks.

New to this year’s event is DraftSight Live, an industry event dedicated to 2D design and drafting professionals worldwide, which will be held February 6-7. As in year’s past, we’re rewarding the “early birds” by offering a $200 discount to those who register for the full conference by November 4th. Join more than 5,000 of your peers at the Los Angeles Convention Center, February 5-8 for four days of learning and fun. This year, we’re taking the world’s most passionate CAD user community and the premier 3D design event to the bright lights and big city of Los Angeles, California. You won’t be able to work on the file however, the design tree just has one feature listed as a “Future version file.Are you always on the lookout for ways to advance your career by learning the latest design techniques, tools and best practices? Do you have questions or problems that you’d like help troubleshooting? Are you curious about what cool new functionality will be at your disposal that will make your job easier and your designs more innovative? If you answered yes to any of these questions, it’s time to register to attend SOLIDWORKS World 2017. However, in SW 2018 SP5, an enhancement was introduced that will allow the user to open and view future version of SOLIDWORKS files. Every time SOLIDWORKS enhances the software with new tools or performance increases, this poses challenges for working with older files. The reason for this is because SOLIDWORKS is always evolving.

(For example, a SW 2018 file can open files created in SW 2017.)įorward compatibility does not currently exist for SOLIDWORKS. SOLIDWORKS has always been backward compatible, meaning that the most recent version of SOLIDWORKS can open all previous version of SOLIDWORKS.

Let’s start with what is backwards compatibility and what does it mean? Backwards compatibility refers to a software (in this case SOLIDWORKS) that can read and write or even view older files. I want to spend some time talking about backwards compatibility (downward compatible), also, which files SOLIDWORKS can open and read. When it comes to capabilities of SOLIDWORKS files, there is much to keep in mind.
