AutoCad Files Corrupted

[liamhagelin]

I have several drawings that were created in autocad 2010. However now

I am using 2012, and the files will not open, and I get a message from

autocad indicating that I need the DWG viewer to open the file. I

downloaded the application, and installed it from the autocad website,

but when I execute it, I get the attached error. Does anyone know if

the view works with Win 7? Or a way to open and print my drawings?

[Albacore]

Have you tried the "insert" command on the command line. I would do this on a clean file on opening. I am sorry it's years ago since I have used autocad professionally but it should work. Also like most drawing programme with auto save it will have a backup file location and you can use windows search to find it in start just type in "%tmp%" if the file came from your computer. In the same vain autocad had a recovery manager when I was using it in 2007 why not use that to see if it works that is if the file got corrupted. Hope that helps.

[Albacore]

Just did a google search to see if the info I gave you was correct and they have an online viewer which would negate any windows problems and it can be done from here: https://360.autodesk.com/viewer