@MH_9720799 wrote:
Hello,
is it possible to convert MCDX-files backwards to MCD-files?
Possible? Yes(ish) and no.
Supporting Fred's response, there is, as a matter of PTC policy(*), no official means of doing so.
It's *possible*, for values of "possible", to convert from mcdx to mcd, either, as Fred says, by hand or by stealing/borrowing/paying-for/rolling-your-own converter. It's on my mañana list, but some others may already have created one. I can't remember whether @LucMeekes has one amongst his collection of very useful utilities.
The "ish" bit of "Yes" is because there are intrinsic backwards-compatibility differences that would need addressing, such as Mathcad 12..15 having static type checking that would prevent direct implementation of some valid Mathcad Prime dynamically-typed expressions.
Stuart
(*) PTC, quite naturally, want people to use Prime, not legacy Mathcad. For many users, there would be little incentive to use Prime given the unfavourable (but narrowing) capability gap between Prime and legacy Mathcad. Having a backwards converter would take away even that little bit of reason to move to Prime. Believe it or not, I knew a few Mathcad users who couldn't see the point in upgrading beyond Mathcad 6 - that's legacy 6 not Prime 6 - even when Mathcad 15 was released.
