FAQ

Problems with drawings

Drawing in .DWG format from AutoCAD and BricsCAD can become a source of misery, ending up with stability issues and viral contamination of your drawing collection. You may want to consider to add an AUDIT command in the startup script. This part describes solutions for different problems.

Get rid of Educational plotstamps

It can happen to anyone, a drawing made with a normal version is accidentally saved in an educational version and you're stuck with a plot stamp forever. Right now there are some solutions:

Get rid of Autodesk FUD warnings

You may have seen warnings in AutoCAD saying this:

Non Autodesk DWG. This DWG file was saved by a software application that was not developed or licensed by Autodesk. Autodesk cannot guarantee the application compatibility or integrity of this file.

That gives you the creeps, right? Danger and alarm bells! Well it is simply bullshit introduced by Autodesk to try to scare you away from using competing products that sometimes even make better dwg files than AutoCAD. It is simply FUD.

Having said this you should understand that the warning comes from a header in a dwg file that determines if the drawing is from Autodesk or another vendor and there are some things you can do about it. Some solutions:

There are also some more in depth solutions:

FAQ (laatst bewerkt op 2016-02-11 08:40:22 door WiebeVanDerWorp)