I'll start...and what do I need, you ask?

I have an Autocad2007 drawing that I need backsaved to ACAD 2004 so that I can import it into vectorworks 12.5. the folks who sent it to me are unavailable at the present time...and neither IllustratorCS2 nor VW12.5 will open it.

Let's face it, we all need help sometimes, and now is my time to shine.

If you've got Acad2007 and wouldn't mind helping me out...PM me and I'd be much obliged.

Peace out yo.

There is a free online backdraft, at least as of a year ago. If I find it in my records, will post.

can't you just save the acad 07 dwg as an acad 04? I know mine will let me.

Apurimac - I don't currently have 2007, that's the problem. We run a Mac office with parallels, but my version of 2007 died a painful death along with my entire Parallels partition.

Caught a virus somehow...no big deal, i have all the original app's, just that it takes a full day basically to install parallels, then XP, then Acad, etc, and I won't get to that till the weekend.

Know what i'm sayin'?

i'm a little scared of the random free-cad-converters online...my mcafee site advisor plug-in is telling me they're all dirty sites.

it's a good idea though...anyone know of a reliable, clean download for easy dwg conversions across different release dates?

Tried importing it to Max then exporting it in DWG format ?

you see per, i am a mac user who ordinarily has access to acad2007 on the parallels partition on my mac. that's dead at the moment...

i just need someone with 2007 who i can email a dwg file to, have them backsave it to 2004, and email it back to me so i can import it into vectorworks.

capeesh?

i have '07, send me a msg...

Problem solved.

Thanks cadalyst.



so...who's next? what's the problem? come here for solutions.

I've been having a problem getting my vulcans to spew rust. Any suggestions?

mind-meld?

there is this real cool program called 'autodesk trueconvert' that is very helpful for batch converting files. and best of all, its free!

Completly unarchitecture related....

How do I erase NORTON UNERASE PROTECTION DRIVER from my computer's registry? It says it can't erase it.


Oh, and I HATE Norton/Symantec.

Yikes. Good luck with that SH. You're gonna have to get someone who you can trust to mess with a reg-edit program. Not a simple task. Very easy to ruin your computer when you start messing with the registry. It may be worth your money to call geek squad.

ok sarah, do you know about regedit?

If you don't:

Go to start
Go to run
Type regedit in the text box
hit enter
run a search and look for entries containing NORTON UNERASE PROTECTION
If you can find them, delete them, they may not be under that name, in which case i can't help you

If you do know about regedit and the bastards keep popping up, boot up in safe mode and repeat above steps.

The registry is not sacrosanct, if you screw up and delete a critcal entry, you can always reinstall. It's basically window's address book and tells windows where to look when it wants to execute a program.

Oh, so if i reboot in safe mode, then there are no protections/stupid things to get in my way of deleting something? If this works, you will be my HERO!!!!

I will let you know tomorrow.

godspeed sarah

Apuriman, you are my hero, and a genius in my eyes. I wasn't able to delete the driver, but I was able to delete something, and Mcafee was finally able to install. My computer is now protected, and its all thanks to you. Thank you.

No problem, glad to help.

Virus P spyware removal tips are hardly "super fresh" ?., there are plenty of geek forums out there ...?i


but for now, ..here is mine...



"...when working in a lightning storm, always hit 'cntrl-s' every single minute!"


...how's that for "Super Fresh" Tech Assistance,.....

good advice, i'd advise hitting ctrl-s often anyway

its always the one time you forget to ctrl-s and you kick the reset button because your tower is under your desk...