How to Lock a Drawing

[Anonymous]

Beside using read only is that anyway to lock so people cant amend your drawing.

Thanks

[Charles_Shade]

CadLock is about the only third party program that I've read of that will accomplish this. There are simple ways around read only and for that matter most other security options.

I would ask why are you sending your drawing files if you do not want them to be amended?

Regards, Charles Shade

[Anonymous]

donmumCAD wrote:
> Beside using read only is that anyway to lock so people cant amend your
> drawing. Thanks

If the drawings are under your control (i.e.: on your network), then set
the security permissions as desired. Remember that read access will
still let someone open the drawing and copy all or part of it.

If you are sending them out of your control, then www.cadlock.com makes
products for this.



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R.K. McSwain
http://cadpanacea.com

[Anonymous]

beside of this lock. do you know any other ways.
basically we are trying to block people from amending our cad file.

[Anonymous]

1. Issue it in .pdf format. Fully readable and printable.

2. Issue it in .dwf format. Fully readable and printable, plus with
the free viewer from Autodesk, measurements can be taken.

[Anonymous]

In-house: place in a folder with no-write access for anyone not authorized
to make changes.

Outside your office: never share DWG files, if you have to, one solution
already posted. The other is to contract with the recipient: talk to your
business' legal counsel for details.

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Dean Saadallah
http://LTisACAD.blogspot.com
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[Anonymous]

Simon Bayley wrote:
> 1. Issue it in .pdf format. Fully readable and printable.
>
> 2. Issue it in .dwf format. Fully readable and printable, plus with
> the free viewer from Autodesk, measurements can be taken.

PDF and DWF can easily be converted back to DWG format, with varying
results. But then so can a paper copy.

If you don't trust the recipient, don't give it to them.

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R.K. McSwain
http://cadpanacea.com