Compatibilite Autocad: Covadis 16
Marc closed AutoCAD 2024. He reopened the file using the dedicated (which forces the correct AutoCAD version profile). He ran the Migration Wizard on the 2018 drawing, selecting “Full conversion with attribute preservation.”
The 2018 file wasn’t broken. It was frozen in time . Covadis 16, running on AutoCAD 2024, could see the ghost of the old data but couldn’t wake it up without a migration sequence. covadis 16 compatibilite autocad
Lena ran a diagnostic using Covadis 16’s “Audit de Dessin” tool. The results flashed red: “34 Covadis 14 objects detected. 12 orphaned attributes. 1 corrupted terrain model reference.” Marc closed AutoCAD 2024
Marc, a senior topographer at Géomètres du Sud , opened the file in AutoCAD 2024. The drawing loaded, but something was wrong. Manholes appeared as generic circles instead of the precise blocks he expected. Water mains had lost their hydraulic attributes. And the coordinate system? It had defaulted back to World UTM, ignoring the local Lambert projection. It was frozen in time