The Design Electronics documents in the format of AutoCAD DWG carry all your arduous work, also carry all the intelligent property rights of your design products. However, facing highly competitive business environment, how to protect your intelligent property right, should be always a hard problem to resolve.
Electronic drawings are easy to reproduce and easy to modify. As soon as you hand your electronic drawing files to any other party, you are thereafter at the mercy of the ethical standards of all people who may have access to those files. You don’t want to see your best efforts being used against you.
If the competitor cans not get your DWG documents, his cost of time and economy will increase high. So encrypting or locking the document of DWG is a necessary choice.
Now, Supply your drawing files, but secured by SmartLock [TM]. Locked drawings can be open in any supported version of AutoCAD, but no one can edit it.
SmartLock works with most recent variants of AutoCAD.
You can try SmartLock before you buy. The function difference Between trial version and formal version is only a 15 days term and 3 files limit. The setup file is same for every version.