Collaboration with other software
About model and data exchange with 3rd party solutions: Revit, Solibri, dRofus, Bluebeam, structural analysis solutions, and IFC, BCF and DXF/DWG-based exchange, etc.

DWGs place a Student Version Plotstamp inside the file.

I'm having a whale of a time with a consultant who opens DWGs from Archicad and get a student plotstamp message. He can open the files, but not save them. I've never encountered this before and am baffled.

When I open these files in Autocad (2018 or 2022), I am told they're coming from a non-Autodesk product, but I'm able to open the files, modify and save them. I can't defeat the message I get, but I can work with the files. My consultant can't.

All suggestions welcome. I'm at a total loss.
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Barry Kelly
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I remember this cropping up before.
Does anything in this post help?

https://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=66121&hilit=Autocad+student#p296216


Barry.
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Thanks Barry,

I'll comment on that thread.saving to 2004 seemed to solve the problem (temporarily anyway), but that's just so 2004. : - )

Later versions of the translator handle elements differently - arguably better. Why wouldn't I want to save out to the latest version of Autocad I can?
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