Can't Open Rhino 7 File Created with Rhino 8 WIP

Serengeti (Rhino WIP)
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I’m having some ugly display issues with the latest WIP so I saved as a Rhino 7 file to get around it, but I’m getting an error when opening the file in Rhino 7: “The model named ___ was created by Rhino 8. This model cannot be read by Rhino 7.”

Is there a way to get around this?

Thank you.

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  1. Open it in the V8 WIP.
  2. SaveAs, new name, and choose the Rhino V7 file format.
  3. Open the file you just made in V7.
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Yep, that’s exactly what I did.

4

Okay, got it, I realised I had a few linked blocks that were Rhino 8 files, and it wouldn’t let me open it at all for that reason.

Thanks

5

That makes sense.
I’m glad you’re sorted.

6

Hi Justin -

If you could take a moment to write up those issues in a new thread, that would give us a chance to fix them!
Thanks,
-wim

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I’ll do that when I have a minute, Wim.

Cheers

8

Is there a workaround for doing a SaveAs? the file i have was created in rhino8 but my trial period has ran out and i currently only have access to Rhino7.

Cheers

9

Hi -

There’s a stand-alone 3dm file version converter available from this thread:

-wim