Designed to make your migration to the latest version of your AutoCAD based software products easier, migration tools help you to share drawings and take the guesswork out of updating your custom files. This started with the release of AutoCAD 2005, where file structures were enhanced to make migration of custom menus, line and hatch patterns, keyboard accelerators and command aliases easier in the future. Now with AutoCAD 2006, a new customization user interface has been added to the product that allows you to easily bring your existing menus and toolbars forward from older version of AutoCAD.
For a detailed description of Autodesk’s recommended best practices on how to set-up your customizations for easy migration, download the "Best Practices for AutoCAD Migration" document below. In addition, see the “Customization and Migration” section of the New Features Workshop inside of AutoCAD 2006 for more information on the use of the new customization interface.
Consult the following list of tools below to see which tools are right for you.
Import your menus, toolbar items, and keyboard shortcuts (accelerators) from previous versions of AutoCAD into AutoCAD 2005. Note: This is replaced by the new customization interface in AutoCAD 2006.
View and convert any AutoCAD or AutoCAD-based drawing file for compatibility with AutoCAD Release 14, AutoCAD 2000, AutoCAD 2000i, AutoCAD 2002, AutoCAD 2004, AutoCAD 2005, AutoCAD 2006 and AutoCAD 2007 versions. This free download no longer requires AutoCAD to be installed to run.