AutoCAD for Mac
Re: drawing file watermarke
Hello Linda and welcome to the community!
That message is actually by design, to inform them that 1) free educational products may bear a watermark on output and 2) opening / saving a commercial drawing with an educational license will contaminate it. Please see the following FAQ for more info and let us know if you have any additional questions.
Hi Phillip,
I'm not using educational license (since I'm no longer a student 
)
Of course watermarking drawings produced by AutoCAD activated with educational license is out of discussion.
But do you think is it normal, that if somebody who using student version gets such alert every time he (she) start new drawing?
Am I right, that after saving default drawing template that is "universal" for all AutoCAD installations in AutoCAD activated with educational license, the alert about PLOT STAMP should go away?
Maxim
Hi Maxim!
It is definitely normal / by design that someone get that message every time they start a new drawing. With that being said, your workaround to save the ACAD.DWT file does partially work as long as AutoCAD is already open. If it's not, then the student watermark warning will display upon startup / before loading the drawing.
The warning goes both ways, it;'s designed to stop "accidents":
- If you are on an EDU package, it warns you when you open a file that is not already EDU-watermarked (see OP's post)
- If you are using a commercial rpoduct, it warns you when you open an EDU-Watermarked file (what you and I would get if we opened one of the OP's files).
This way no one has any of the usual highly emotional rants/excuses like "... well, I did not know..." yada yada 
Your posted solution should fix it for the EDU user: save a new template file in the EDU asoftware and use it exclusively for new drawings (which every AutoCAD user should be doing anyway as you know).
pendean wrote:The warning goes both ways, it;'s designed to stop "accidents":
- If you are on an EDU package, it warns you when you open a file that is not already EDU-watermarked (see OP's post)
- If you are using a commercial rpoduct, it warns you when you open an EDU-Watermarked file (what you and I would get if we opened one of the OP's files).
Yes, I am aware of this and there is nothing unusual.
pendean wrote:Your posted solution should fix it for the EDU user: save a new template file in the EDU asoftware and use it exclusively for new drawings (which every AutoCAD user should be doing anyway as you know).
This is exactly what I mean. EDU user are aware that he (she) is EDU user, so it absolutely unnecessary to remind him (her) about this every time he (she) start new drawing. This is my opinion on this matter. Maybe I'm not right...
Maxim
You are assuming someone at Autodesk planted an EDU template for EDU users in the EDU installation and setup: it doesn't work like that, never has, there is only one installer and one installation file we all get and we all install, the type of license is what triggers the watermark but it does not trigger a magical switch of template files to/from EDU.
So back to my reply, item #1: we ALL open the same non-EDU template file if we all rely on the generic AutoCAD start-a-new-file command using the Autoddesk provided 'blank' template file.
