


I wouldn't want to encourage that in my classroom as it could cost a company you get a job for eventually big fines if you did it there. In fact I might actually take points away if you illegally removed the watermark. Honestly if I was the professor I would never dock points for the watermark. He might say everyone's will have the watermark and to not worry about it. Autocads student version is simple to get and you can basically renew it forever which is also why they take precautions so companies don't just use it for free for business. If you aren't actually in school but want to learn archicad you are out of luck as you can not get a free version. Plus I need to resend that stuff every year when it expires to prove to them I'm actually still in school. For my archicad student version I needed to send a transcript or a photo student ID with a date on it to get a student version. Some companies are much stingier with student versions.

Autodesk let's you use the software as a student for free, the price you pay is the watermark. Autodesk is in business to make money not support companies with it's software for free. Without the watermark they would pretty much never get caught by anyone and use the program for free. The watermark is there so a company can't just bypass paying for the product for it's commercial use. Why would a water mark that says made on a student version ruin a presentation that you as a STUDENT are doing? I understand it might not look the best but if you made it on a computer in your university lab it would still have the watermark on it.
