As it is we have half the office switched over, and quite a few projects with files saved in the new format, but we're stuck not knowing how to go either forward or backward. If anyone has come up with a viable workaround, it would be greatly appreciated. Staying with 2018 at this moment is not viable, but we haven't figured out a way to go back! If we had known that this update was serious we would have held off for a while - everything that we read looked like this addressed some minor bugs and put a new number after Autocad Architecture. Except that when you save the file back it won't let you keep your AEC objects, so we can't just open them up in 2017 and continue on our way because our drawings no longer have our walls, doors, etc. Okay, no big deal, just go into the settings and have it automatically save back to 2017 (or 2013, or whatever) file format. Okay, so we think "2018 seems a little half-baked, let's just go back to 2017." So we try to open a file we've been editing in 2018, and THEN realize that Autocad has a new file format. And some other functions didn't transfer over correctly (ribbon doesn't change when editing blocks, so you have to go oldschool with BCLOSE). At first everything seemed fine, but then we ran into the issue with Xreffed AEC objects' colors/linetypes not being honored when set BYLAYER, so all of a sudden our demo plans look strange without going to some very convoluted lengths to make them work. Okay, we're having a bit of a panic in the office with the confluence of issues with the new 2018 version.
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