Monday, August 25, 2008

AutoCAD plot stamp removed!

For the users of AutoCAD 2007 (& above), there have been a problem of finding a "plot stamp" as ...
PRODUCED BY AN AUTODESK EDUCATIONAL PRODUCT
added on all four edges of any print of any drawing if they are using Educational (Student and Faculty) version of AutoCAD.

This problem affects all the other drawings (which are not from "Educational version") i.e.

  • when we try to copy some entities from the "plot stamped" drawing
  • when we try to get a "plot stamped" drawing as an xref / block

I have tried hard to find its solution by trial & error as well as web searching.
Here is the solution, which I have found it very much useful & also I am using it continuously without facing any difficulty

First you must have 2 more versions of AutoCAD loaded in your computer. i.e.:
AutoCAD ver.2000
AutoCAD ver.14


Then follow the procedure below:
1. Save the drawing (from which you want to clear the "plot stamp") as an AutoCAD-2000 ver. drawing
2. Open this drawing in AutoCAD ver.2000
3. Save this as an AutoCAD ver.14 drawing
4. Open this in AutoCAD ver.14
5. Save it & close it.
6. Open it (or Save it) in any version of AutoCAD {other than EDUCATIONAL 2007 ver. } & print.

You will not find the "plot stamp" again !!

Another simple method is :

Save the drawing as "dxf" format, Open this dxf file in AutoCAD & then again save it as dwg format.

5 comments:

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  2. You can also export the drawing to dxf.

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  3. Akram Faroqui: yah its great blog, you can also save as dxf (file type)then Print.u will not find any Plot Stamp,
    Thanks Mr. Hyderabadi Bhai,
    its Great site and its useful for cad Operators

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  4. coHorTor, arkamfaroqui
    Thanks for visiting my blog.
    Yes, we can save it to dxf. but again we have to convert this to "dwg" b'coz of heavy file size of "dxf" format.

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  5. I did that and it worked, there was 14 plans, 10 of then are ready without this plot stamp, but 4 of the rest, can not be reopnened after i did the procedure.
    what problem have my plans that now give me an advise that says "error in block_record table"?
    My client sent it to me whit the plot stamp, but i can not use that!
    Actually i looked for the error and i founfd an answer, -editing the draw in notepad,- but it didtn work at all.
    Any advise is wellcome.
    Thanks for all

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