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removing educational watermark

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mrtaz
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removing educational watermark

My company bought autocad 2005 LT student version, now that I've learned to use this; the company bought autocad 2008 LT. Is there a way to get rid of the educational watermark when I print these out?When I open a drawing a popup tells me that it is incripted with educational version. Can the drawings be opened up and saved under a different format, I have a new computor with only 2008 LT on it. I can open the drawings on my old computor off the network.
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Chip_Harper
in reply to: mrtaz

Information from saved messages about the education stamp:

The plot stamp is supposed to be there if you are using the
educational version of AutoCAD, or are using a file that at some
point went through an educational version of AutoCAD. Somewhere,
somehow your drawing or a component being used went through such
an educational version, hence the stamp. It is deliberately built
into the educational program to stop it from being used in an
office environment.

Search the newsgroups for past discussions of the stamp. Go to
the search engine at
http://discussion.autodesk.com/index2.jspa?categoryID=8, put in
the key words educational stamp and hit enter.

Here's the main reference page for student and educational
institution products:
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/index?siteID=123112&id=3268472

Also see For Educational Use Only plot stamp
http://support.autodesk.com/getDoc.asp?id=TS63668

AutoDesk Knowledge Base item:
http://support.autodesk.com/getdoc.asp?id=TS63668

Issue

When you plot a drawing that was created in or that contains drawing data
that was created in the Educational (Student and Faculty) version of
AutoCAD® or AutoCAD-based software, the following plot stamp or watermark
appears in the plot:

For Educational Use Only

Solution

There is no way to circumvent the plot stamp. This is as designed to
discourage the commercial use of an educational version of an AutoCAD
product. Autodesk sells educational versions of software on the
premise that the software will be used for educational purposes only.

This can also occur when using blocks or other components of drawings that
have been created or modified in an Educational version. This includes
layers, blocks, layouts, and so on.

ALSO if you have a commercial drawing that has an educational stamp:

We cannot assist you in this forum. This is a PEER TO PEER support group.

Help with this issue is only available through your Authorized AutoDesk
Reseller and the Autodesk Product Support group.

Contact your reseller and request a copy of EMR_STAMP.LSP (or EMR_Utility).
This is a lisp utility to search out infected files. If you have a few
infected files they can be emailed to AutoDesk for cleaning. If you have a
large quantity to be cleaned they have a 15 day program (involves
an approval process) that you can use to clean the files.

If needed please copy this information and email it to your reseller as this
problem may be something your representative may not be familiar with.

Please note that AutoCAD 2004, and newer versions all include automatic detection
and warning of the presence of Educational Drawing Files.


Additional resources:

EDU-Scan from www.manusoft.com is a new monitoring utility helps prevent accidental infection of AutoCAD drawing files by educational product content.

Available for:

AutoCAD 2002
AutoCAD 2000i
AutoCAD 2000 (SP1 and later)
AutoCAD LT 2002
AutoCAD LT 2000i
AutoCAD LT 2000
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tonytigani
in reply to: mrtaz

Occasionally the company I work for receives files of this nature, and this should be discouraged Edited by: Discussion_Admin on Feb 9, 2010 12:08 PM
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AZain29
in reply to: Chip_Harper

My Company was using for commercial use, but why still get that mark. no Student version here and we are produce our drawing with AutoCAD LT from 2010 to 2019. There is a way to remove the mark?

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pendean
in reply to: AZain29

Your type of license is not in question: your files either contain content from EDU (a free block on the web for example) or the files were saved in dwg-compatible free software like DRAFTSIGHT that appear to have a glitch in their dwg-coding that triggers the flag in AutoCAD to appear.

Instead of asking at Autodesk how to circumvent Autodesk file license-control measures, try a websearch instead.

Good luck.

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