Vectorworks provides free or low-cost licenses to students and educators. To prevent these cheaper licenses from being used for commercial profit, Vectorworks embeds a permanent marker into the file metadata. Key Characteristics of Educational Files:

Vectorworks provides free or deeply discounted software licenses to students and educators to help them learn the platform. However, the Vectorworks Educational License Agreement strictly prohibits using this version for commercial, revenue-generating work.

Vectorworks often offers steep discounts for recent graduates transitioning from educational accounts to commercial software (sometimes called the "Grads2Pro" program).

Vectorworks strictly protects its commercial ecosystem. The educational watermark is not a simple graphical overlay that you can select and delete. It is an embedded file attribute. Why Standard Workarounds Do Not Work

It prints a clear notice along the borders of sheets and viewports.

Understanding the Vectorworks Educational Watermark Behavior