is Pro-E 4.0 backward compatible?

[MB2011SD]

If I save a drawing using Pro-E 4.0, can it be saved as a "Pro-E 3.0 drawing" to be viewed on a system with Wildfire 3.0? And be modified using Wildfire 3.0 ?

My understanding is that this is Impossible.

Can anyone tell me if i am wrong ? Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

 

[dgs]

Yes and no.

You cannot save a file as an older version, but you can get an add in for the older version to allow it to open newer files. Go to here for the GCRI plugin.

 

[MB2011SD]

Thanks very much I am going to look into the GCRI plugin you mentioned. Regards

 

[ngconsulting]

Uh, where does the .dll file go? PTC makes it available
for download, but doesn't say where this goes.

 

[Atropos89]

My guess would be %ProDir%/bin


Can't hurt to try!





EDIT: I guess not. see below.
Edited by: Atropos89

 

[rajendran]

Follow the below steps:


1) Get the latest release readnewermodels.dll application component and place this application component in the earlier release loadpoint (i.e. <loadpoint>/i486_nt/obj/readnewermodels.dll).
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<DIV style="mso-char-wrap: 1; mso-kinsoku-overflow: 1">2) Add the following configuration options to earlier release config.pro before launching the earlier release of Pro/ENGINEER. </DIV>
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<DIV style="mso-char-wrap: 1; mso-kinsoku-overflow: 1">atb_show_log off </DIV>
<DIV style="mso-char-wrap: 1; mso-kinsoku-overflow: 1">atb_auto_check_on_update off </DIV>
<DIV style="mso-char-wrap: 1; mso-kinsoku-overflow: 1">atb_auto_check_on_retrieve on </DIV>
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<DIV style="mso-char-wrap: 1; mso-kinsoku-overflow: 1">3) Add the config option