I have picked up an architectural design project. The client has ditched his original architect ( on speaking terms). He is fully paid up and has asked me to take the project to the next stage, so I am not poaching here!

He has e-mailed me dwg's of the project in its current form. I need to make changes (to show more detail and text etc) but the dwg is write protected and so I can't save any changes that I do make.

Is there any way I can 'unprotect' this? (file/properties/ uncheck the box won't work 'cuz the box ain't checked!)

It would be a massive amount of work to re-draw.

Cheers,

Smudger.