Opening the file in an older version

- June 17, 2019 at 9:32 am
  
  Edith
  Subscriber
  
  Hello,
  
  I am writing my Bachelor thesis. For the first calculations I created a project with 95 KB with the student version Ansys Workbench Version 19.0. However, the given number of nodes of 295,000 is not sufficient for these calculations.
  That's why I want to open the project at the university with the full version 17.0.
  Due to the version difference the project cannot be opened.
  The following error appears: "The project was saved in a higher product version and cannot be opened".
  
  Is it possible to compress or convert the project to open the project and edit it further?
  
  Thank you very much.
  
  Edith
- June 17, 2019 at 3:04 pm
  
  Rob
  Ansys Employee
  
  It's not normally possible to open files on older versions of the code: that is changing with the current release for some models though. How did you generate the R19 model?
- June 17, 2019 at 4:50 pm
  
  Edith
  Subscriber
  
  Thank you for your answer.
  
  I created my CAD model with Solid Works 2017 SP03 and saved it as Step AP203.
  Then the file was imported into Academic Student 2019 R1 (FENSAP-ICE 2019 R1). Then I prepared the project in Ansys (force, mounting). Then I saved the project as a WBPJ file.
  This project cannot be opened with Ansys version 17.
- October 5, 2020 at 8:01 pm
  
  nstrattoncsu
  Subscriber
  
  Is this information still valid relative to v2020R1 files in v2019R3?n
- October 12, 2020 at 10:54 am
  
  Rob
  Ansys Employee
  
  Yes, again it's slightly solver specific so some Fluent cases will open in older versions (with several warnings). Workbench is not able to open files created in a newer version. n

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