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    HOW DO YOU SELECT THE LAST ITEMS COPIED ??

    Carl and I are telling you what to do... You just aren't hearing. I confess that I don't know beans about button macros, if I had to guess, you won't get what you want without writing a lisp routine. I learned Acad long ago, and have nver done anything with button macros. The last I used...
  2. EngrMech

    HOW DO YOU SELECT THE LAST ITEMS COPIED ??

    Shadow, you didn't read my post carefully, CarlB got the idea. Here's the rotate retaining old objects code that I mentioned earlier: (defun rcopyerror(s) (command "erase" "p" "") (princ) (princ (strcat "\nError: " s)) (setq *error* olderr) );end...
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    Mech Desktop being discontinued???....

    You should just go see a demo; Mister Overzealous And Crabby. "Windoze" has an app called "Access" that allows multiple users to work in a database, lots of folks have seen that and do it on a daily basis (no sharing violation error). All the MidrangeCad players are...
  4. EngrMech

    Mech Desktop being discontinued???....

    Outrage! Despair! and a bit of Indignation. And a quick response to boot. Many congrats SWX webmaster. MOAC: Mother Of All Crocks. Large Assy: Thousands (many thousands) of Parts, a whole machine. Concurrent Engr: More than one person working on a model, without the software crashing...
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    Mech Desktop being discontinued???....

    First off: there isn't a more widely used 3d design program (period). There is no question about that, despite how some folks feel about it. MDT has a huge user base, because it is based on AutoCad. That is the strength of MDT, and its weakness, because Acad was designed as a 2d drafting...

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