Previous Release Check Dialog Box
Before you can save documents as a previous version of SOLIDWORKS, you must manually address incompatible items, as described below.
Use this dialog box to determine if there are incompatible items that you must manually address before saving as a previous release.
| Item | Description |
|---|---|
| Previous Release | Specifies the release to which to save the SOLIDWORKS document. You can switch releases and the lists update. |
| Update | Refreshes the Incompatible Items list. |
| Incompatible
Items tab |
Lists items that are incompatible with the selected previous version. If you remove or edit the incompatible items, it might change the mass properties, size, shape, or rebuild behavior of the model. For example, sheet metal bounding box sensors were added in SOLIDWORKS 2023. You could save a SOLIDWORKS 2024 model that has sheet metal bounding box sensors as a SOLIDWORKS 2023 model. However, if you try to save the model to SOLIDWORKS 2022, you must delete the sheet metal bounding box sensors because they are incompatible with SOLIDWORKS 2022. You must manually address these items before saving the document as a previous version of SOLIDWORKS. In some instances, you must delete the incompatible item. In other instances, changing a feature option might address the incompatible item. The list of incompatible items is in the order that they first appear in the FeatureManager design tree. |
| Other Items tab |
Lists non-feature-based items that are not supported by or available with the selected previous version. The software automatically modifies or deletes these items when you complete the save process. Examples:
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