In order to popularize AutoCAD, its developer, AutoDESK company, distributes free educational versions of AutoCAD for students. Drawings created in them are supplied with a training stamp: when sent for printing, the inscription “Created by the training version of the AutoDESK product” appears along the perimeter of the sheet. If you copy elements from such a dwg file into drawings created in a licensed program, then this unpleasant addition will appear in them. You can remove the training version in AutoCAD in several ways.
Instructions
Step 1
Method One: Open the dwg file in the full licensed version of AutoCAD. The program will definitely warn you that a training version stamp has been found. Answer "Yes" twice to the question "Continue?" and download the drawing. After that, save it in dxf format of some earlier version of AutoCAD, and close the original drawing without saving. Open the dxf file and resave it in the dwg format of the current version of the program. In some cases, this simple operation allows you to get rid of the training stamp. However, such oversaving often causes problems with fonts, or the dxf file is corrupted and cannot be opened.
Step 2
Method two: Use one of the standalone programs that convert dwg files without the participation of AutoCAD. For example, download Any DWG DXF Converter. It is shareware, without registration, you can convert no more than 3 files at a time, but for your purposes this is enough. Add the file with the stamp of the educational version to the list of files and convert it without changing the dwg extension and the AutoCAD version (in other words, perform the resave operation). The postmark will be removed. When downloading the file, AutoCAD will notify you that the drawing was saved by a third-party program not licensed by AutoDESK. To prevent it from appearing again, check the box "Always open dwg files regardless of origin".
Step 3
Method Three: Many users prefer not to convert dwg files, as the information is often lost or distorted. In addition, the educational AutoCAD is quite functional, and all problems arise at the printing stage. Therefore, if you have a program for converting dwg files to pdf (for example, the doPDF universal printer driver for pdf files) and some kind of pdf editor (for example, Infix PDF Editor), then there is another way to get rid of the educational version stamp. Load the drawing into AutoCAD, send to print and select doPDF from the list of printers. Open the resulting pdf file with an editor, remove unnecessary labels and save. This option is also convenient in the case when the customer does not have AutoCAD and one way or another will have to convert dwg to pdf. However, if you have a trial version of the PDF Editor installed, it will automatically add the appropriate stamp to your drawing.
