Is there a way to lock a drawing so that a customer can only read the drawing. I know that one can make the drawing READ ONLY but all they have to do is bring it up and remove the READ ONLY tag.
Is there a way to make it RO with a password?
I would like to Password Protect some of my drawings. I have tried several times with no success. When trying to set Password, I don't get a Password Confirmation Screen.
OS: Windows 7 Ultimate (@ home) Windows 7 Pro (@ work)
AutoCAD 2013
Also have the same issue with 2012, and 2008.
our drawings are protected by a password.We have a VB.NET programm to export a drawing without password.
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Dim securityPar As New SecurityParameters(Nothing, Nothing, Nothing, Nothing, Nothing, Nothing, Nothing, Nothing, Nothing, Nothing, Nothing)
doc.Database.SaveAs("C:TempTest.DWG", False, DwgVersion.Current, securityPar)
doc.CloseAndSave("C:TempTest.DWG")
...
In AutoCAD Architecture 2009 (Win XP) it works fine.
In AutoCAD Architecture 2011 (Win 7) the drawing is still password protected.
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The strangest thing about this is the following warning box that appears on screen. see attached.
For some reason, the alert message which displays the full path of the dwg in question, has it's path modified with a date and time stamp prefixed with a '@' symbol. Needless to say the folder '@GMT-2012.07.17-11.00.04' does not exist. In 18 years of playing with AutoCAD I've never seen this one before.
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