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    • Alan FraserA Offline
      Alan Fraser
      last edited by

      There really has to be a way of password protecting a locked group...because all you'd then have to do it group the entire model and lock it.

      As things stand, a locked object cannot be copied...and if you save it and then re-import it, it comes back in still locked....getting you nowhere. All that leaves is disabling CAD export.

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        logscape
        last edited by

        Alan,
        are you saying there is a way to lock a group with a password? it sounds the simplest, rather than exporting drawings to other formats and hoping the person has a program that will open it. can you tell me how it's done?

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        • J Offline
          johnsenior1973
          last edited by

          Just make the drawing 600x400 so that it isn't worth saving by anybody.

          I'd say it's pretty much impossible to make a drawing so that people can't copy it. Even if you go to the lengths of making it save disabled, anyone with a tiny knowledge of computers could just save a screenshot of it and get it that way.

          IMO if a drawing is so precious to you that you don't want anyone else to have it, you don't share it.

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          • R Offline
            remus
            last edited by

            Logscape, there isnt a way to password protect locked groups, i thnk alan was making a (rather good) feature suggestion.

            http://remusrendering.wordpress.com/

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            • GaieusG Offline
              Gaieus
              last edited by

              @logscape said:

              Alan,
              are you saying there is a way to lock a group with a password?

              No, what he says there should be a way...

              And yes, the problem is not only opening and editing a (still not possible, pasword protected) locked model but also exporting (at leat to vector format) should be disabled.

              This feature request has recurrently arised (especially since the free version was firt released) already and I don't think it would be very hard to program.

              Gai...

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              • AnssiA Offline
                Anssi
                last edited by

                @gaieus said:

                @logscape said:

                This feature request has recurrently arised (especially since the free version was firt released) already and I don't think it would be very hard to program.

                I would guess that it is not as easy as it seems. SU would probably need a totally new, encrypted file format. I don't know if it is still so, but Adobe used to warn users of Acrobat that using the password-protection in it could rather easily be circumvented by third-party programmers.

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                • R Offline
                  remus
                  last edited by

                  Theres been a new file format with each new version of SU. Could be tricky with people using older versions of SU though.

                  http://remusrendering.wordpress.com/

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                  • L Offline
                    linea
                    last edited by

                    I tend not to give clients the model at all, they wouldn't know how to use SU anyway. Just give them an animation file.

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                    • MALAISEM Offline
                      MALAISE
                      last edited by

                      Hey, and what's about SU viewer ? Does it still exist ? ( I've downloaded the last version for a while)
                      That the way I send skp files to some customers, but animations possibilities are restrained.

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                      • GaieusG Offline
                        Gaieus
                        last edited by

                        For the SU Viewer you still need to send an skp file which could be opened in SU if someone wanted to change anything.

                        Gai...

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