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Thanks all for super interesting responses - FYI I'm coming at this from an interior design perspective, so going down macro rabbit holes is not honestly the route I'd want to take - honestly MarkMc most of your response went waaaaayyyyy over my head :-). And I asked the question because - unfortunately - a fair number the kitchen and bath industry seems to still use 2020 and the supplier I work with most of the time for kitchen cabinets uses 2020. I was just looking to make it more efficient on their end - i.e. they import my output, make a few modifications and done. But I appreciate it would be a mammoth task given all the cabinet catalogues out there. It's not a train smash, it would have been a nice to have, but I'll just stick with the default which is to supply plans and elevations with a materials schedule and then they recreate in 2020.

Does anyone have anything to add to this that may be different from what CA Support have provided? I asked CA support if they had any update from CA's side with regards compatibility with 2020 - last post seems to be from around 2011 on chieftalk http://www.chieftalk.com/showthread.php?54296-Compatibility-with-20-20-Software). The answer I got was: The short answer is no, there is no new news on that front. A more detailed answer is that the two programs are both propriety file types that while they can both export basic cad files, the data that defines the plans themselves is stripped in the process. One of our users on Chieftalk addresses the subject of compatibility here, and though the post is from 2017 it sounds like it still is solid advice: https://chieftalk.chiefarchitect.com/topic/15011-2020-compatibility/?_fromLogin=CA3 This sounds pretty definitive to me, but if anyone has a new work around I'm all ears. Thanks, Janine