@RiggingEngineer wrote:
<<.....It's not always a case of trying to cheat Autodesk. I was on a project where we all had full AutoCAD licenses, but a vendor used a student version....>>
Although you and your firm didn't use a student version and you nor your firm didn't intend to deceive Autodesk, you did accept work product drawn by a non-commercial, non-income producing, student version. (The vendor is your supplier, you are not their supplier. You are free to change suppliers. You are free to purchase services and product elsewhere.)
The moment you accepted your vendor's drawing and incorporated their linework in your drawing, you become complicit in their misgivings. The work should've been rejected and returned. You even have grounds to withhold payment. And depending on your working 'agreement' your vendor may even be liable for lost work or for damages incurred due to your worked being delayed.
Imagine if the vendor gave you drawings not in english but in Latin and no one in your office could understand them. Keep or return? Imagine if the vendor delivered drawings meant for one of their other clients and not meant for you? Keep or refuse? Imagine if the vendor delivered 12 copies of an 18-page drawing-set full of coffee stains. Return or accept?
That's your vendor's work in your drawings, so as it is now, or will become, their mistake is your mistake.
Chicagolooper
