PASSWORD FOR FUNCTIONS OR LAYERS
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HELLO
If you want to avoid making a video and allow a customer to visualize the project itself , you can distribute the SKP file
If you give the SKP file , the customer can opened the file with the free program SKETCHUP and tinker, modify, adapt it.
So you have made a public release of your project.
The idea for future versions is to lock with password functions or layers just as in Excel or other software and restrain access (protect)
chri
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Before you distribute the SKP file, make it "Read Only".
Then they change whatever they want, but not save it.
But a password enabled "Edit Allowed" as you suggest is a better way. -
a number of options
- you could just give the skp file to the client and tell them they can do whatever they want with it, but that you have the main file.
- make a copy of the skp file for the client, delete 'sensitive' layers and then send it to them.
if you're worried about a public release of your drawing, tell your client you have copy write on the drawing, and it's not for redistribution.
sending out a 'read only' drawing won't really do anything for you imo.
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Hi,
@jgb said:
Before you distribute the SKP file, make it "Read Only".
Then they change whatever they want, but not save it.
But a password enabled "Edit Allowed" as you suggest is a better way.Unfortunately, this solution does not work!
Charly
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This has been discussed many times before...
If you give someone else your SKP they can open it in any compatible version of Sketchup that equals or is higher than the file's saved-version. They can then edit, print, extract data, export components etc etc.
Making a SKP 'Read-only' doesn't stop this at all - any recipient with half a brain cell can remove this restriction by editing the SKP's properties, OR just simply by doing a 'Save_as' - there is no way to limit any SKP's options - it has been asked for many times...
So there is no way of 'locking' your SKP to prevent this kind of thing.
Certainly purge unused data from the model so they get as little as possible that has 'reuse' value...
If there are some layers you just don't want them to see/get then delete those and their contents [+purge] before handing the SKP over.
You could also Explode all groups and component-instances [then purge] to make reuse of your things less attractive - but your layering would almost certainly go foobar and mess up things like scene-tabs etc...
You always automatically have full copyright on everything in your SKP unless you have expressly agreed otherwise with a 3rd party [or of course your SKP itself contains parts copyrighted by others - like maybe FormFonts Components or Styles].
But once you let the genii is out of the bottle and your SKP is given to others, then they can really do what they like with it - there are legal remedies available to you [depending on where you live] but are you really going to sue 'a client' ?
You could provide your SKP bundled with the free SketchUp Viewer which does limit what can be done to it, but then if a recipient were also to have SketchUp then they can access the SKP file's data anyway...
You could supply the SKP inside a password protected ZIP file, so that only 'approved' recipients, to whom you have given the secret password can access the file - but again you need to trust that they won't simply extract it, then do whatever they want with its data, including giving the unencrypted version. or it with its password to someone else with no connection to you whatsoever...
The only really safe way to supply the information in your SKP is to use some other file format that has limited usefulness to the recipient - like a movie or a 3d-PDF.
There is a 3d-PDF writer available as a plugin [~$ after a trial], and suitable PDF readers that are freely available to the recipient will allow them to look around the SKP, almost as if they were in SketchUp itself.
Then yet again, even these methods can't stop them printing images or reusing the data in several other ways... but at least your main SKP file is kept away from potentially mischievous hands... -
Points taken.
I only (and very briefly) considered modifying and saving the modified SKP, not anything else, as TIG pointed out.
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There is an alternative beside SketchUp files.
So if SU doesn't implement this request, then you might look into http://WWW.Spread3D.com.
It can do all of this plus add branding info. -
[highlight=#ffffbf:1y72mcn5]The idea for future versions is to lock with password functions or layers just as in Excel or other software and restrain access (protect)[/highlight:1y72mcn5]
Hello
This topic is a wish for the future versions .
When , for example , you work with EXCEL , it's possible to protect the cell with a password .
Everybody can use your file , but nobody can change the protected cells .if you you can lock a group objet to avoid select him , i think that it should be possible to protect a layer or some entities with a password !
it's the same thing with dynamics components ; you can used them but you cannot make change with the free soft
chri
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