Nobody needs them any longer, the smart people migrated away from ME-10 and it's many versions when they saw the writing on the wall. There are companies that sold such translators/converters back then that have disappeared. I still find posts on the internet offering translators/converters from nearly a decade ago that are no longer available. I do agree with your first assertion that people bailed on ME10 early on and suggested as much. Perhaps someone that understand code doesn't find this odd, I know next to nothing about computer code.

But files created by ME-10/CoCreate cannot be converted in the same manner. I find it a bit odd that I can create files in Creo, change the file extension back/forth with no trouble. No len that's not what I was driving at, perhaps I poorly worded my last post. I hate it when short sighted bean counters make decisions that bite someone else in the arse. Thanking you in advance for your time and advice. A batch translator would be great but if a single serving conversion is all that's possible then the company needs to hear this too. So before I just step back and let the ball fall I wanted to ask if any of you have had to wrestle with the legacy of a large data base in an unsupported program and whether you found a solution. I have an outside company reviewing the problems but I'm willing to bet that the cost will cause much wailing and gnashing of teeth in the corridors of power. I'm attempting to pursue a solution because a problem that doesn't directly affect corporate seems to have less of a priority, it's been 4 weeks already. This is now squarely beyond the limit my knowledge. One of the IT guys at corporate has suggested/stated that the older files that we can't convert were/are written in a binary code. It also appears that the time to have migrated away from ME-10 was at least 10 years ago when translators/converters were needed and more readily available. All of the reading/searching I've done suggests that there are 'unique' aspects about converting. mi and back so it does work for some files. The translator does work for files I create in Creo/save to dxf/convert to. I've already found/used the translator that comes with Creo but am not successful in converting the older files, I get a screen message that states the file is not ASCII type.

We've already been in touch with PTC and they haven't offered much help other than suggest a configuration edit in Creo that doesn't work. Viewing is not the problem, I can get Creo Elements to open the files but not save to a useful format. The information on those files is still needed on an almost daily basis for viewing and to create stamping die components on the WEDM. To make a long story shorter the program is currently not functional. I am soon to inherit a great lot of CAD files (1,000's) created with the ME-10 program. Could really use some advice from the collective.

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