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I have reeived several Autocad files from a client. The drawings were exported from a commercial version of Revit 2019. I had to convert them down to Autocad version 2010. When I open them in my commecial Autocad, I receive a message that the drawing was created with a student version of Autocad; and I get the watermark when I plot. Does anyone know what would cause this?
Thanks
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Hello @Anonymous,
This can happen if a block or object that originally came from a student version of an application in the drawing.
This software cannot be used for commercial, professional or any other for-profit purposes. It is intended that this watermark promote legitimate use of AutoCAD software licensed by students and educators through the Autodesk Education Community and any action to bypass the watermark is not permitted. Please see the following FAQ for more information and feel free to let me know if you have any further questions.
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>>"I had to convert them down to Autocad version 2010. "
Please: Open the original file in DWG TrueView 2019 (THIS version!).
can you see the stamp there too or not?
if not:
>>"I had to convert them down to Autocad version 2010. "
How you do that, with with program?
If not by DWG TrueView, please use DWG TrueView to convert the fiel down to dwg2010.
(one question: Whats your Aurodesk product version AutoCAD?, 2010? 2011? 2012?)
Sebastian
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Converting them with TrueView worked. Apparently, the converting software I was using triggered something during the conversion.
I shy away from TrueView because it messes with the default program to load dwg files. This requires me to fuss with loading autocad prior to opening a dwg file.
Thanks for your suggestion
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So please let us know which product in detail you used for converting!
(thats your part of knowledge for the community
)
THX
Sebastian
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@Anonymous wrote:
I shy away from TrueView because it messes with the default program to load dwg files. This requires me to fuss with loading autocad prior to opening a dwg file.
Not if you have your file associations in Windows set up correctly. That's a terrible reason to stay away from quality free software in lieu of whatever your using that throws false errors.
Also, opening files from within the program, and not through file explorer, is considered best practice.
Rob
Drafting is a breeze and Revit doesn't always work the way you think it should.