FingerPrint GUID in AutoCAD 2000 .DWG files?

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From: Tony Tanzillo
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2000 00:00

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Does anyone have any thoughts on Autodesk's adding a
"FingerPrint GUID" and "Version GUID" to every AutoCAD 
2000 .DWG file?

A 'GUID' is a 'Globally Unique IDentifier" (sort of
like a 'SERIAL NUMBER').

What I'm wondering about is, whether this is an encoded
version of the AutoCAD serial number that was initially
embedded in pre-release AutoCAD 2000 .DWG files, and
subsequently removed in the Release version because of
overwhelming disapproval.

There are two ARX API functions that retrieve these
values:

AcDbDatabase::getFingerPrintGuid()
AcDbDatabase::getVersionGuid()

The net sum question here is, can Autodesk identify
the serial number of the AutoCAD installation that
last saved a .DWG file from these values. 

              
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