Drawing Passwords

[JonaRene]

I just started a new job and the drafter before me put passwords on the drawings. I am using a 2007 version. Is there a way to delete or remove the password?

[CADgirl]

This is the only solution I found. Unless there is someway you can call the drafter and find out the password-

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/item?siteID=123112&id=3003091&linkID=9240817

[rkent]

I just started a new job and the drafter before me put passwords on the drawings. I am using a 2007 version. Is there a way to delete or remove the password?

 

Without the password there is no way to open them. This is why Autodesk should have never added this to the program and should take it off.

[JBullseye74]

didn't know you could that... what happens if you forget your password!! Seems daft if you ask me... must be a way to crack it

[rkent]

http://www.cadtutor.net/corner/2007/november.php

 

I am not aware someone has spent time creating a hack, but I haven't looked either. Dumbest feature they have ever added, not sure what they thought this would do for people but it was not well thought out.

 

The holder of the license should have a passkey for any files locked.

[Strix]

... unless the IT dept are using a keystroke monitor of some description (unlikely, but see what they can do)

[Cad64]

the drafter before me put passwords on the drawings.

 

This was probably his way of getting revenge on the company for letting him go. Why else would he put passwords on his drawings?

 

This is why you don't let on that you're going to fire someone, and this is why you don't give them two weeks notice, and this is why you don't let them go back to their desk, unsupervised, after terminating their employment.

 

The last company I worked for fired one of my co-workers, so he went back to his desk and proceeded to delete all the files off the server. Of course they had backups, so it wasn't too difficult to put everything back, but still . . .

 

Some people just don't handle rejection very well.

[Coosbaylumber]

Not too long ago, I worked at a place that part of the work was done by me, another in another room, and engineer, etc. But we all worked off the same server. Some mornings I would show up and the whole plan did not resemble what it did the evening before. That's not an elevation of 69.23, it is supposed to be 29.23. How'd that change? But I was to blame for the content. I found that one of the engineers would leave a note on the desk of the $2 draftsman, "Change this..." and it got changed alright, good or bad.

 

Which is when I found out about using the old Locked Drawing principle. At end of day I would simply Lock a few key drawings, such that if any changes occured, the whole drawing would not show up. They yelled at me when this was discovered three days later.

 

The boy genious soon worked out a system in that he could go around the Autocad system, but by then it was too late. I was off on to another project. Think that he wrote the locked drawing to another name, and then bleeped out the original, and renamed the Tempo one the same. But, revision dates and time do not lie.

 

 

Wm.

[Cad64]

Were you the project manager? If so, then no changes should have been made to the drawings without your knowledge. If engineer's were authorizing changes behind your back, that's a serious problem that should be taken up with management and the engineers.

 

I know my boss would have a fit if someone started locking their drawings.

And somebody's butt would get seriously chewed on.