Sketchup drawing lock
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does it exist?
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I think Todd means locking components or groups so they can't be edited or erased. I think Ever meant locking the whole model (sic drawing) in a way so that it can't be edited etc. Read-only PDF-like I guess - this has been looked at over the years but no one has come up with a good way of locking a model (making it permanently 'read-only'). It could probably be incorporated in an update in v.7 quite easily - if we wanted it - a File Menu item called say "Save_Protected" - which then prompts you for a password on saving and later any recipient is prompted for that password after opening, if they want to make it editable or perhaps save it...
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But then Solo highlighted it in another thread that you can always export the model in Max for instance and then re-import it back into a "clean" file. So export should also be disabled in this case (IF ever means this)
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Locking the whole model, so that it can't be edited is what I mean.
3D-pdf seams to be a sollution - does someone use this? -
I used to play with the trial version (you should try the trial for sure). Some positioned materials didn't come through but they may have been too deeply nested (Al told me later that I should explode groups/components prior to exporting).
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