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Why would a water mark that says made on a student version ruin a presentation that you as a STUDENT are doing? I understand it might not look the best but if you made it on a computer in your university lab it would still have the watermark on it. The watermark is there so a company can't just bypass paying for the product for it's commercial use. Without the watermark they would pretty much never get caught by anyone and use the program for free. Autodesk is in business to make money not support companies with it's software for free. Autodesk let's you use the software as a student for free, the price you pay is the watermark. Some companies are much stingier with student versions. For my archicad student version I needed to send a transcript or a photo student ID with a date on it to get a student version. Plus I need to resend that stuff every year when it expires to prove to them I'm actually still in school. If you aren't actually in school but want to learn archicad you are out of luck as you can not get a free version. Autocads student version is simple to get and you can basically renew it forever which is also why they take precautions so companies don't just use it for free for business.
I'd just ask your professor. He might say everyone's will have the watermark and to not worry about it. Honestly if I was the professor I would never dock points for the watermark. In fact I might actually take points away if you illegally removed the watermark. I wouldn't want to encourage that in my classroom as it could cost a company you get a job for eventually big fines if you did it there. Not to mention you could corrupt their entire server of files by working on something at home on a student version and bringing that back to work.
Yes I understand you want it too look as nice as possible and I didn't mean to sound snippy but the watermark is just the price of having free access to the software. Also as mentioned you can download the 2017 or 2018 student version and use those to avoid the watermark for now at least.
AutoCAD2019 reintroduced the EDU watermark: it will always show up if you save or print in your free EDU student software.
There are tips to get rid of it, but it only stays away if the file is never saved or printed from EDU software, or content from EDU software is not inserted into it.
That is how autodesk wants it to work for free EDU licenses now.
You should really consider the fact that Educators also download the "student version" and it's incredibly unprofessional to have a watermark like that when you are handing out floor plans for students. It's really not a good look, and yes teachers get the software for free, but we're certainly not students and need to present it professionally.
I would also not accept student's work with a watermark - it's unprofessional and can often get in the way of title blocks, sometimes overlapping them. It's bad for the student's portfolio.
I always explained to students that they would receive the plot stamp on any work done at home on their Education Community license but not on work completed on campus. Some chose to do their work in the classroom or campus lab and never saw the stamp.
I hope you will consider presenting this explanation to any colleagues and/or students so that they might appreciate the level of educational support that Autodesk provides. I'm not saying that as a way of "kissing-up" but instead just to offset any bad notions toward the plot stamp.
Yes, everyone is arguing "free." But why does free have to mean, "make it look ugly." It makes Autodesk look bad, the student look bad, and the university look bad. How does this help anyone? Autodesk, make your watermark presentable, or remove it!
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Is it possible you are trying to activate a trial (30 day version) that you had already used so the 30 days is up instead of a student version? If you go in the drop down at the top right of these forums under your username and go to manage products and downloads what version of it does it show in there?
In your original post you say you tried "enter license" but it just freezes. In your image in your original post in the bottom right it says "already have a license" is that where you tried? Just making sure because you quoted it but that's not exactly what it says. If that is not where you tried to put in the license then try there. You can get the student serial from were one of your other screenshots shows. Just click on the version that says student and it should show the number. It's been a while but usually you don't need to even put in a serial number when you download the student version if I'm remembering right. I'm by no means an expert at the installation process. I believe the "install now" option to install software is buggy and I see people saying to avoid that and use one of the other options.
Without getting an admin to move this question to the correct forum can you shed some light on it @Mark.Lancaster? If I remember right, wasn't there something going wrong with student or regular activations a few weeks or a month ago. Is that still going on?
Your original image shows that you have been using the 30 day trial and it has expired.. You need to enter your student information (serial #). You shouldn't have to log in because student license are based on perpetual license. Perform a license reset -result/caas/sfdcarticles/sfdcarticles/Forcing-re-activation-of...
I've read a long thread about how Cad 2019 now has reintegrated the ability to detect student version created files, but no where can I find how to detect these components within the file. From what I understand, even though I am NOT using a student version 2014 cad program, if at some point a consultant used an Edu version to create file, title block, etc and it was inserted into my file then the Edu stamp will show up when someone using the 2019 Cad version opens the file. I want to be able to find and remove any components of the files [created using Edu versions] I receive from others or ask them to remove them before I use them in my files. Is there a command to 'search and destroy' these blocks, etc within my file that were created using an Edu format.
This is very frustrating and potentially business killing for small practitioners. Having used Acad LT 14 for the last 5 years I've amassed 1,000's of drawings all with 100's of blocks in. Somewhere along the line I've been given a block or xref etc that SOMEONE else has saved using a student version.
Totally oblivious to this my files have been infected with what is essentially and probably legally a virus. It is only now that I find that the 2019 version now makes my files useless by re-introducing the watermark. AutoCad have aided the spread of this virus and now left me with many years of useless work.
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