{"id":165435,"date":"2023-03-17T09:00:18","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T09:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/i-tried-importing-an-old-workbench-project-wbpz-which-was-done-way-back-the-error-message-pop-ups-issue-related-with-act-extension-and-the-workbench-crashes-for-example-a-model-created-in-18\/"},"modified":"2023-07-31T12:31:15","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T12:31:15","slug":"i-tried-importing-an-old-workbench-project-wbpz-which-was-done-way-back-the-error-message-pop-ups-issue-related-with-act-extension-and-the-workbench-crashes-for-example-a-model-created-in-18","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/i-tried-importing-an-old-workbench-project-wbpz-which-was-done-way-back-the-error-message-pop-ups-issue-related-with-act-extension-and-the-workbench-crashes-for-example-a-model-created-in-18\/","title":{"rendered":"I tried importing an old Workbench project (.wbpz) which was done way back. The  error message pop ups[ issue related with ACT extension] and the workbench crashes.   For example a model created in 18.2 is to be opened in 2019R3?   Is there any way to open this project?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This issue have been reported and one known reason is revamping of the GUI after 2019R2 and ACT conflict. The first thing to try out in these cases is :-  [if we are opening some model which is 4 -6 versions old then it&#8217;s good to first open in an intermediate version and save the file before opening in recent version]   For example open the model first in 19.2, save the file and  and then open in 2019R3, this will be a much stable approach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-165435","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-general","topic-tag-mechanical","topic-tag-n-a","topic-tag-structural-mechanics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_wp_page_template":["default"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["3\/15\/2023 20:20"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27789"],"_bbp_author_ip":["23.56.168.180"],"_btv_view_count":["1675"],"siebel_km_number":["2063717"],"product_version":[""],"km_published_date":["2020-11-29T00:00:00.000Z"],"family":["Structural Mechanics"],"application_name":["Mechanical"]},"test":"articlesansys-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/165435","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/165435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}