Copying old version of carbide create models into new carbide create

[Jwjimbo (Jim Colombo)]

My new version of Carbide Create won’t open models made with the older version of Carbide Create.

Does anyone have way to open the older models with the newer version

[WillAdams (William Adams (Carbide 3D))]

Download v7 from:

https://carbide3d.com/downloads

open the v6 file in it, and re-save as a v7 file (I like to append _v7 to the filename).

If you have a Pro license and the file has 3D elements see:

How to convert a v7 3D file to v8

As noted at: https://carbide3d.com/blog/create-v8/ from “Breaking Changes” Files from prior versions will not load 3D components in V8. There were too many changes to the internal format for the new capabilities of 3D, and there was no good way to map existing 3D components into V8. so v7 files will need to be converted so as to use them in v8. Fortunately, Carbide Create has a feature for exporting the 3D model as a height/depth map pixel image: [image] so do that to get: [rams] Th…