open dwg always write-protected

Hello

I'm looking for a way to open dwgs always in a write-proteced mode. Is it
possible to start autocad with

- an option or
- a profile or
- a cmd or
- a batch or
- something else

in a way, that all opened dwgs are protected??
The reason is that some users (without any practice in autocad!) have to
use autocad as a "viewer", and only write-protection is a secure way to
avoid damage. Other users (with same network rights) have to open the same
files for edit and save ...

Thanks

Pierre

 

Pierre,

You can select all drawing in one directory at once and right click them.
Choose properties and than check read only in the check box. All drawings
will open read only until the checkbox is unchecked. There is no other way
to
get the effect you want without some serious programming.

Hope to have been of some use to you,

M. Moelands

 

Hello M,

as I wrote above we have two groups of users: the "viewers" and the
"editors".

To set the file attributes to "read-only" stops the editors to work with the
file.

Pierre

 

Are the "viewers" able to use something like Voloview express instead of
AutoCAD for opening the drawings?

Matthew

 

Matthew,

we had VoloView, but tge drawings have a lot of referenced tifs and VoloView
is not able to show referenced tifs - and Bentley View is not able either
.....

Do you know a way to make ref-tifs visible inside a viewer??

Pierre

 

I've never used this viewer but it does look quite good:

http://www.freefirestudio.com/cadsee.htm

I don't know if it handles .tifs