# "Not opened for read" error

I just downloaded and installed the program.  I am using the trial license.  I opened a .dwg file that I created in AutoCAD Map 3D 2011 (basically an AutoCAD 2011 file).  When I attempt to do anything I get errors.  Trying to use the offset command (typed or from the icon)  I get "Not opened for read" and I am returned to a blank Command: line.  I get the same error when I click the polyline icon to draw a polyline. Lots of other commands produce this same error.

Then I try the copy command (from the icon) and select objects to be copied, but when I click the right mouse button to finish the selection I get "Invalid input."  Interestingly, I can use the multiline command.  

I'm wondering if the trial is actually that limited?  It's pretty difficult to  the program if I can't draw or edit much of anything.

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Update: It is not a "trial" problem. I am able to use all commands when I create a new drawing (and I imagine when I open the drawing that was created in ActCAD). It is only when opening an existing drawing created in the AutoCAD 2011 environment that I cannot use commands.  The objects are there, I just can use almost no commands.

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