Converting AutoCad 2000 to AutoCad14

[BudMan38]

I have about 700 autocad2000 drawings and I need to save them as Autocad 14 drawings, so the rest of the engineering staff can review the drawings.

What I need help with is I would like to write a VB app that when Open I can select a directory of drawings. once the directory is open when a button is pressed it opens autocad2000.Then when a convert button is pressed it saves the drawings in that directory as autocad 14.

 

[bugsfinder]

You can use AutoCAD Migration Assistance which contains batch file convert.
The link is:

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=2525863&linkID=2475161

Hope this help.

 

[IFRs]

You could write a script to SAVEASR14 in Autocad.

 

[CADaver]

Wouldn't it be easier to get a copy of VOLO View Express to the rest of the staff?

 

[exit]

Hi,

search for "Aha!CAD Converter" on

http://www.caddepot.com/

.
I didn't test it by myself...

Lothar

Win NT4.0 (SP6),
ACAD 2000i (SP2), ADT 3.0 (SP3),
ACAD 2002, ADT 3.3,
OCÈ 5200

 

[bot1357]

Not sure about this but firstly I would set-up your AutoCad to save all future drawings and current drawings in AutoCAD 14 format by selecting the options button when doing a saveas. Once thats done just write a simple script to open all of your drawings and do a saveas.