SolidWorks 2015 can't open future version, HUH?! 1

[ctopher]

We are using 2015 SP2.1.
Every week when I open a drawing that I have been working on, it suddenly will not open and I get the error "Can't open, future version"
WTF!

VAR is no help again.

Chris, CSWA
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[TheTick]

That tends to happen when your CAD skills are so blazing that you induce relativistic effects.

 

[ctopher]

HAHA!
I need to slow down...

Chris, CSWA
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[Brad805]

Have you asked about this? I have a folder with a few that behave the same. They were all originally created in SW 2014.

 

[ctopher]

Ask who?
I wrote "VAR is no help again."
They have not been much help lately.

Chris, CSWA
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[Brad805]

I see that now. Well at least you got a discount on the annual service contract since they couldn't help. haha

 

[ctopher]

I wish! ;-)

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[SBaugh]

I have seen this and I cannot explain why it happens, but I usually shut down all my files and it reopen that file and its fine. However that doesn't sound like that is not going to help your problem. It might be that your file is corrupting, which would require a VAR to send your file onto SW to get fixed, if it is corrupted.

Of course if its not the file, then your installation and you might need to be repaired or you need to do a clean reinstall.

Good luck Chris!!

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[ctopher]

Thanks Scott.
Luckily I have been checking in my files into PDMW.
I can check them out and write over the corrupted files.


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[cmburgess5]

I've had the same issue opening a 2014 file using SW 2015. I guess I wasn't paying attention, because the file I was trying to open was a temporary file. For some reason, that gives the "future version" error.

Hope this helps some people

 

[Skidplate]

I've had that happen to me once as well, and I shut down SW and reopened it and it was fine.

 

[davidinindy]

Disruption in the space-time continuum?
We just passed "Back to the Future Day"...
Maybe there were some minor timeline events happening leading up to it?

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[Appl3E14159]

I didn't came across this problem but maybe you can try to convert the corrupt files with solidworks task scheduler tool.

Link

Good luck.

 

[ctopher]

2015 SP4.0 seems to have fixed the problem, for us anyway.
Thanks.

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