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Can 20.3 Version save 20.1 file version?

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January 16, 2021
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If I have Creo Elements Direct 20.3, can I set 20.1 as default file version?

Best answer by lfortner

Hello Kaji,

From 20.0, PTC changed the release naming. They treated the version decimal point not as a minor release, but as a major release.

18.1 is an important but minor release of 18.0

20.0, 20.1, 20.2 and 20.3 are treated as major release respectively (see PTC article CS233356)

Then:

18.1 saves back to 17.0

19.0 saves back to 18.0

20.0 saves back to 19.0

20.1 saves back to 20.0

20.2 saves back to 20.1

20.3 saves back to 20.2

Hope this help

L

lfortner

14-Alexandrite

I'm afraid you cannot do it straight forward. Modeling support just 1 major version back.

From Modeling 20.3, save your model with version 20.2 and from a modeling 20.2 save it to version 20.1.

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Kaji

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Maybe you are right, but I remember that before the 20.1 (I don't know 20.0) it was possible save two version back: from the 19.0 to 18.1 and 18.0 , from the 18.1 to 18.0 and 17.50 etc etc.

So I hope the same for te 20.3 version.

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lfortner

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14-Alexandrite

Hello Kaji,

From 20.0, PTC changed the release naming. They treated the version decimal point not as a minor release, but as a major release.

18.1 is an important but minor release of 18.0

20.0, 20.1, 20.2 and 20.3 are treated as major release respectively (see PTC article CS233356)

Then:

18.1 saves back to 17.0

19.0 saves back to 18.0

20.0 saves back to 19.0

20.1 saves back to 20.0

20.2 saves back to 20.1

20.3 saves back to 20.2

Hope this help

T

ThomasKirkman

16-Pearl

You can force a save backwards, but not in Model Manager

This works if you know the release. For example, the command below will set Creo to save to version 19.0.

(bin-io-revision :MR-19-RELEASE)

Regards

Tom

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MaxR.Kublin

13-Aquamarine

Perfectly right.

Basically, CED can store almost all old versions by using the (secret) primitive:
(bin-io-revision :SOME-RELEASE)

However, when using PDM (MM? WGM?), this setting overwritten (reset) any time
you save data to the database. You can only use the option to save "one version backwards".

I assume you are running in "mixed CED environment" (CED 20.3 and CED 20.1 using a common DB).

Are you using a "Part Library" for creating standard parts (screws, bolts etc.)?
If yes, it can happen that a user running CED 20.3 silently creates a new standard part in the DB.
and users running CED 20.1 have no chance to use this library part (and it is very hard to get rid
of such a library part in case that it is being used in an assembly).