acad2000 to acad14

[Juice]

Here is my predicament, a land surveyor sent me a digital file of spot elevations for a particular piece of land that i'm developing. He sent it to me in Acad 2000 format. our office only has two computers that have 2000 on them. I still have Acad 14. Well i use the computer that has 2000 on it, to save it as a acad 14 file. Now when i open it up all the line work shows up except for the spot elevations. I think because they are attributes. Now i can explode that attribute in 2000 then save as a Acad 14 format and they show up then. But they are not a whole entity. Is there a way to have them show up in Acad 14 without exploding the attribute? Or do i just have to plead with my stingy boss to get Acad2000 or better format for the whole office?
Thanks for any help
Juice

 

[cadkid]

There shouldn't be any reason that you can't save the attributes from 2000 to R14, however; I would plead with your boss to upgrade. After Jan. 15 you will no longer be able to upgrade R14. MDI (multiple document interface) alone is enough reason to upgrade. Put it to your boss like this, A year from now ,when most of your customers are using a higher level of Autocad, these kind of problems will become more common place. Now that he has waited to upgrade the cost will not be $500.00 but $2500.00. That kind of logic has to make since to even a stingy boss.

 

[CarlB]

It may be that the spot elevations are proxy entities, some survey programs such as LDD may have been used to create them. List the entitiy in 2000, it should tell you. Possibly your 2000 handles them but not your R14. You could ask surveyor to "saveas" differently, or maybe get the necessary free Object Enabler for R14 at the Autodesk website. But you'll need to know what program was used to create the objects.

Carl

 

[RivieraCadMan]

I have run into these problems before with several of the engineering companies in the area where I work. The images are proxy images created by an electric transits internal software out putted to CAD or as CarlB stated a by-product of software like LDD. Generally exploding this information has a tendancy to weld some interesting results so I wouldn't reccommend it on an origional drawing. I have been able to transfer this information in the past in two diffrent ways 1: export to *.dxf or 2: export to *.dwf then either import them into CAD or change them in another program. I know this sounds strange, but it works. If all else fails contact the person who surveyed your lot and have them send you the topo information via *.dxf . Changing over to 2000 is a good idea.