openroads designer dgn save to lower version

Hello  everyone,

please suggest how I can save my DGN in lower version in openroads designer.

DGN is prepared in 2020 release 1 and its not opening in 2019 release 2 so please suggest how I can covert it to it's lower version so it will also open in lower version of openroads designer.

Regards

Vishnu

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  • You can only use the files created in the latest version as 'Read only' in older versions. This is working as designed.

    EDIT: I realize this sounds rather blunt, but I am simply stating the fact. I understand all the issues being raised, but as I am not involved in any way with the development of ORD, I can only say that they should be raised as Service Tickets etc. 



  • Not to pile on, but in a previous life, the firm I worked for had many clients requiring many different versions of DWG/Civil 3D. We were able to install multiple versions on our users PC's so they could run the appropriate version for the client requirements.

    Is there a method that would allow the installation of multiple versions of Open Roads Designer? If there is not, there needs to be. Consider that at that firm, we worked for DelDOT, MD DOT Mass Transit & Highway Administration. They were usually all on different versions. And at another firm even further back, we did work for those three agencies and NYSDOT, CT DOT and probably more.

    Even now, at the DOT, having to roll out new version across the board so that all team members can work in the same version would be problematic, as we do not maintain lists of who's working with who on a project by project basis and may not have the "authority" to migrate a project from one version to the next, just because we need (or want) to roll out the new version.    


    Charles (Chuck) Rheault
    CADD Manager

    MDOT State Highway Administration

    • MicroStation user since IGDS, InRoads user since TDP.
    • AutoCAD, Land Desktop and Civil 3D, off and on since 1996
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  • Not to pile on, but in a previous life, the firm I worked for had many clients requiring many different versions of DWG/Civil 3D. We were able to install multiple versions on our users PC's so they could run the appropriate version for the client requirements.

    Is there a method that would allow the installation of multiple versions of Open Roads Designer? If there is not, there needs to be. Consider that at that firm, we worked for DelDOT, MD DOT Mass Transit & Highway Administration. They were usually all on different versions. And at another firm even further back, we did work for those three agencies and NYSDOT, CT DOT and probably more.

    Even now, at the DOT, having to roll out new version across the board so that all team members can work in the same version would be problematic, as we do not maintain lists of who's working with who on a project by project basis and may not have the "authority" to migrate a project from one version to the next, just because we need (or want) to roll out the new version.    


    Charles (Chuck) Rheault
    CADD Manager

    MDOT State Highway Administration

    • MicroStation user since IGDS, InRoads user since TDP.
    • AutoCAD, Land Desktop and Civil 3D, off and on since 1996
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  • No, please, pile on. This is an issue that's only going to get worse as more companies & institutions have to get on board with ORD. I suspect it hasn't gotten any attention because so many players still aren't using it yet.

    The ability to load more than one version could go a long way toward mitigating this problem. Keeping versions straight may be a pain, but it's nowhere near as catastrophic as being unable to work.

    MaryB

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