AutoCad Student Version 2014 & Licensed 2009 LT

[lulumara]

Hi need some advise or suggestion on these two software. My wife is taking a course on AutoCad and she just downloaded this Student edition 2014 but I have a Licensed AutoCad 2009 LT that I'm using for Cad Freelance . My question is if I have a dwgs that I'm making for Clients is there any effect I mean if I print the Client's dwg , is there a Stamp Student Edition? I know if you gonna use the AutoCad Student Version it will print with stamp but surely I will not use it. Need an advise, Thanks.

[nestly]

You're installing both on the same computer?

Technically, both should run under their own license, but I'm not sure I'd advise it. I'm curious to see if anyone else is actually doing it.

[mikekmx]

pretty sure Nestly is correct...should be fine, no probs at all. it's common practise to have multiple versions on the same computer (& OS)

 

the student version will not infect any drawings with the stamp unless you either open (& perhaps save, not sure) them with the student version, or you use any stuff created with the student version in your drawings. be careful what 'double clicking' a dwg file icon will do ....I.E. which version it will launch to open it.... (although a warning should pop up before any damage is done).

Edited September 16, 2013 by mikekmx

[ReMark]

Even using full AutoCAD you can open and view drawings created with the educational version and not encounter any problems. I do it all the time with drawings posted here by Penn-Foster students. You would only have a problem if you copied content created in the educational version and use it in the full version. As far as having both versions on the same computer I would recommend that you don't go to Explorer and double-click on a DWG file to open it as who is to say that it wouldn't be opened with the educational version since it is newer.

[nestly]

Yeah, my concern is that a Client drawing may be inadvertently opened and saved with the Student version, thereby permanently adding the EDU plotstamp to the Client drawing. Ditto for inadvertently pasting something into a Client drawing that wasn't cleared from the clipboard cache. Make sure you have a good backup strategy, perhaps back up your Client drawing on a separate external drive.

[PotGuy]

You can choose the default program to open a dwg file, but there will always be that risk of having the educational version...

[SLW210]

I thought I read somewhere that the 2014 Educational versions were not printing a watermark.

[PotGuy]

I've heard that rumour, but not seen anything on it either way.

[JD Mather]

I thought I read somewhere that the 2014 Educational versions were not printing a watermark.

 

I am getting conflicting feedback when I post a 2014 student file for testing.

Some say yes, others say no.

 

I would assume any student work will eventually display banner - even if, for some reason as reported, it is not currently doing so for some.

Imagine you open 2014 file in 2015 and suddenly banner is there. (I will let you fill in the explaination that will be given...)

 

For the OP, as long as you are careful it should not be a problem.

[PotGuy]

Might be worth probing a PF student to see whether this is true or not?

[JD Mather]

Might be worth probing a PF student to see whether this is true or not?

 

As faculty - I use student license on my home machine (for learning purposes).

I will post a file for those interested in testing.

[ReMark]

If the plot stamp was removed then why is AutoCAD LT 2014 listed in this article by AutoDesk?

 

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?id=17886605&linkID=9240617&siteID=123112

[JD Mather]

2014 student test.dwg

Attached is a 2014 student license file.

Plot and report back.

Banner or no banner?

 

In my test plotting the 2014 file using 2013 I did get a banner.

In my test plotting the 2014 file using 2014 I did get a banner.

[ReMark]

Printed with the banner here. Currently running AutoCAD 2013.

 

Same result if plotted from AutoCAD 2014 as well. Even both warnings, when opening the drawing, tell the user the banner will be plotted so no one should be surprised.

[SLW210]

[ATTACH]44004[/ATTACH]

Attached is a 2014 student license file.

Plot and report back.

Banner or no banner?

 

In my test plotting the 2014 file using 2013 I did get a banner.

In my test plotting the 2014 file using 2014 I did get a banner.

 

Well that's odd behavior, I would think that was not by design.

 

As long as you still get the warnings, still should not be a problem for the OP.

 

Would help if you were to open the DWG files from the appropriate version of AutoCAD and not Windows Explorer.

[JD Mather]

Well that's odd behavior,.....

 

What is odd behavior? Everything working here as expected. I get warning I get banner.

[nestly]

I get the expected startup warnings and the EDU plotstamp in both AutoCAD 2013 & 2014.

[eldon]

And DWG TrueView cannot convert

[SLW210]

What is odd behavior? Everything working here as expected. I get warning I get banner.

 

I was referring to the postings a while back on Autodesk forums that they were getting no banners with 2014. Might have been fixed with a service pack.

 

As Eldon, I could not convert with DWG Trueview either.

[lulumara]

Wow that's a lot of responds , thanks to all you . I will remmber to make a back up before doing anything else. But I need to tell my wife to be very careful using my AutoCad 2019 LT. Use her Student version 2014 . Thanks again for all you. Cheers!!