I have heard ir over and over again. "if you don't upgrade now you won't be able to later" This is their way of blackmailing everyone into accepting a non workable product. Rather than designing their product to fulfill industry needs they are trying to get everyone to change the...
Try this - open any other drawing that you have. Use the file drop down menu. Pick "utilities" and pick recover then select the damaged drawing.
After having recently gone through an expensive training session for AutoCad 2002 (Desktop 3.3) our company has decided to stay with R14 for now. The program as described would be a great benefit - i.e. generating sections, elevations, schedules. It is very useful in generating 3D renderings...
