Do not allow Educational version

[Anonymous]

First of all I am not trying to use Educational version drawings.

I am working in a company with over 300 people and alot dont have idea about Acad popups.

I'm trying to create a program that automatically closes the drawing if its created by educational version.

Does anyone now of the couterpart of Objectarx's ISEMR in LISP?

[rkmcswain]

What version of AutoCAD are you using?

2014 SP1 and later no longer warns you or prints the plot stamp, but the "EDU mark" is still embedded in the drawing

2015 is the same, but supposedly physically removes the "EDU mark" when saved with a commercial 2015 version.

http://knowledge.autodesk.com/support/autocad/troubleshooting/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Educati...

[rapidcad]

RK is right.

Unfortunately, we are stuck in a conundrum because of the shortsighted way Autodesk implemented this. Those of us that are stuck in 2014 SP1 because of 3rd party software (like file management systems) are flying blind regarding if any XREFs or support drawing entities copied in carry the mark, yet we unwittingly propagate the mark, which causes some of our customers then, when they open drawings we send them in 2013 or earlier versions, to get the unpleasant idea that we are too cheap to purchase our own licences (not true - my company has hundreds of current subscription seats!) 

We paid a lot to have our file management system bumped up to the .net build that worked with 2014 SP1, and I don't think we are going to do that again. But now we are stuck without a way to check for this. Jimmy Bergmark's EDUfinder won't work for us because we aren't storing our files in regular Windows directories, but rather, in the file manager.

GRRRRR!

[dgorsman]

If you have a centralized document control who handles all files incoming/outgoing to clients they could use a single seat of the new version, even in core console mode, to sweep those files.  As archived files are pulled out for use on projects they can be swept as well, with a notation in your EDMS system to note as such.

[rapidcad]

True- but this will definitely cause issues with object enabler versions. Additionally, every time a drawing is checked back in (in the file manager) it gets a new version number, so this will cause additional problems.  It just might be worth it though. I don't know how they would do this, (integrate core console with the file manager) but that's not my problem. I'll pass on the solution idea - it seems to me that it would work, if the thorny problems can be worked around.

Thanks

[dgorsman]

If you've got OE content from AutoCAD verticals, then you might have an issue.  Then again, there is a lot better compatibility between the 2014 and 2015 releases than there has with previous releases.

As for the core console, it could be as simple as dumping a list of files into a local folder and calling a BAT or other script which calls the CC.

[Anonymous]

Hi rkmcswain,

I'm using AutoCAD 2013.

If only there is someone with arx knowledge kind enough to make me a function that I can run in lsp like (isemr <filename>)

I'll be glad to post my lsp here.

I'm trying to study Objectarx but even the samples are not working from the SDK.