"Produced by an autodesk educational product" stamp

At our offices, we have liscenced versions of AutoCAD 2002. We have had
legitimate liscences for Autodesk products since release 10. However, I keep
getting the "Produced by an autodesk educational product" stamps while
plotting on one particular drawing. This drawing was set up at our offices
but has blocks from an online ressource, I believe it was Cadalyst or
similar.

This error only happens in this drawing. Also, I tried wblocking it out,
even creating a new drawing & inserting, but still the stamp goes with it.

How does this work, is it attached to every entity in that drawing now? I
even tried removing the blocks beforehand, to no avail.

This drawing has several hours of work on it... how do I recover my drawing?
Is there a way out?

thanks

d

 

Can anyone tell me how to delete this watermark?

 

Paul just told you.

John B

johnbogie btinternet.com
Put the "at" in the gap.

 

Well... not really. But I thank Paul anyways.

Ian from Australia suggested I DXFout to an earlier version, then reinsert
into new (or in my case, the last good saved version). I did so, to r14 &
was able to get my drawing back.

I forget Ian's last name because his reply is on my home PC.

D

 

It's very possible that Ian from Australia send you a private email instead
of posting here because he didn't want any trouble with AutoDesk Corporate.
So perhaps he would prefer that you not post his last name. Just a thought.

 

How exactly could this cause him 'problems' with AutoDesk? The 'infected'
block was inserted into a drawing done on a perfectly legal copy of AutoCAD.

My thinking is that AutoDesk should have incorporated some type of alert
when one of these 'educational' drawings is accessed or inserted onto
another. I know add-ons are available to detect these, but if you're
unaware these exist, like I was, how can you protect yourself? I was in no
way warned of this.

I do agree having a student edition of AutoCAD is a good idea, but there
must be a better way to keep them from getting into corporate hands.

You could ruin a perfectly good drawing, losing hours of work becasue of
this 'virus'.

just a thought

d

 

Uh, yes he did, read it again. Paul said "The official word from
Autodesk is 'contact your dealer' for a solution."

 

The thing is - there has to be a certain level of trust - that users will
largely attempt to stick to the licensing.
The implication of Autodesks attitude to the educational stamps is that they
believe some places are buying up copies of the educational version
(presumably through students or something like this)?
If people are willing to do this (& I don't believe for a moment that a
significan percentage of the market is lost through this practise, then
wouldn't they be just as willing to use cracked software to get around the
restriction altogether?

Matthew

 

With the amount of R&D going into AutoCAD, I can see they'd want to protect
their interest... but there has to be a better way to do this.

No problem if it ever happens again... at least now I know what to do.

d