Topic: CSF files

[Mark]

Has anyone tested this product? Looks rather interesting.

http://www.net-it.com/nip_autocad.htm

[MP]

Never even heard of it before. Not to poo poo it outright, but couldn't the same thing be realized by publishing to PDF with an appropriate copyright notice?

Admittedly, I'm not awake yet.

[MikePerry]

DWF

[MP]

Ok, the expiration date thing has interesting possibilities.

[MP]

DWF

Ahhh, but DWF files are easy to reverse engineer back to drawings.

:)

[Mark]

Never even heard of it before. Not to poo poo it outright, but couldn't the same thing be realized by publishing to PDF with an appropriate copyright notice?

I suppose so. I'm curious if you can take a CSF file and convert it back to a dwg like you can a PDF.

[MP]

I'm curious if you can take a CSF file and convert it back to a dwg like you can a PDF.

I would guess they would have taken measures to make it very difficult to reverse engineer, but there's always some nut, burnin' midnight oil "I MUST CRACK ZE CODE!"

[MikePerry]

DWF

Ahhh, but DWF files are easy to reverse engineer back to drawings.

So are PDF's (to a certain extent).

[MP]

We're doomed!

[Mark]

If you haven't tried the free BravaReader and sample CAD files you might want to check that out.

[Mark]

Try doing a "Find" as in finding text with Adobe reader on a converted dwg. BravaReader can do that. How about measuring a line? BravaReader can do that. Or even Block information, It can do that too. This thing is pretty cool!!