Their intent is to just cut and past our fan from our drawing into their system drawings, despite warning not too, and despite our policy, I was instructed to send the cad file. Even though we have a company policy about drawing submittal (always submit PDF drawings) The customer insisted on cad files. Three years ago we were to supply a couple extremely large fans to a customer. I design industrial blowers/exhauster/fans. the drawing always has the potential to be screwed up! I would venture to say, you really would not use it that much.Īs long as you send an actual cad file that can be manipulated by the customer. standard or in the hands of the IT guys, used only when needed. If during your install of your autodesk product you were asked for a master override password (as you mentioned) to undo issues. it's funny how fast passwords are remembers or people fess up to wrong doing. I can guarantee you that the majority of businesses have enough money to start the legalities. Including jail time for the individual who locked the files or maliciously altered drawings upon leaving a business. There are legal ramifications to action of disgruntled employees though. Even then, it's no guarantee that the individual who sent it to production did not open and save. Check the ownership of the cad file under it's properties and permissions to find out that the last person to access the drawing quite 3 months ago. After all machined has been completed you find out that you are 0.003' under on a bearing journal dia.

No different then someone who works with cad drawings, modifying dimensional features on standard drawings that have already been checked and are certified correct. You will always run the risk of disgruntled employees. So we bare the cost of making it right, like we did something wrong. in turn they 'forgot' to follow up with us on their modifications to our autocad drawings.įrankly it ends up costing us money, as the customer is always right. What they expect to get, is not what we designe and supply. I have customers that continually request autocad drawings of our product (so they can cut and past into their system drawings) problem is, once they do that they end up manipulating the product in some way. It was a non-discussion though (I was surprised as how closed minded the individual was ). Autodesk themselves call me to explain that my request was not even considered do to the fact that you can output a drawing in other media types. I made this request to AUGI as part of their wish list items that are submitted to Autodesk. There is no way to put a password on a drawing so that It is only able to be opened as read only!. You can put a password on the electronic file but you can't open the file without the password.

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