Aside from issues of pricing, I have version 6.4.23.1 which suggests incremental revisions. Whether these should be paid for or not, is there information available about any such revs - do they happen?

The BAK file has saved my bacon a number of times, most recently when a file became corrupted the .dwg saved as a file with 0 bytes. I delete them regularly too, then you have a third chance to retrieve from the recycle bin. When the job is finished you don't need them any more, but turn off the abi...

Can't imagine what they get out of it... unless it's a juvenile act like pressing all the lift buttons.

Not sure if it's the best way, but I put them all in a general directory (C:\dwgs) which also contains all drawings (projects are all in subdirectories of this one). Then in Windows I set Icad to start in that directory (or folder).

Purging gets you with that, I have script files for re-creating my layers but if I purge a dimstyle it's harder to get it back. That's one reason I leave all the dim defaults & just change the scale for a new style.

That's how it works, you probably wouldn't want a "new drawing from scratch" to contain all your old dimstyles. Check that "open a new drawing" is set to use your Icad.dwg as a template. You can open both dwgs and copy and paste a dimstyle across using the Explorer.

While you wouldn't want to pay more than necessary, the cost of either is unbelievably reasonable compared with practically any other piece of software, hardware, or drafting consumable and its value as a work tool. Without comment on relative merits of brands, I have wasted more in time than money ...

Sounds complicated, but with a normal 3 button mouse ctrl+shft+rght-clk should pan. If it does that then the problem must be something in the mouse setup.

I see, though I'm not sure how each behaviour affects, or is affected by other things. For instance, what would you expect "lastpoint" to return, how does snap affect the answer and which offers less surprises for new users or lisp routines? Just to say there might be a reason and it's per...

That still won't indicate the snap point, just the pick point even though snap is used. It has never been a problem for me, but now I see what Sky means. With coords running if you rest the mouse immediately after picking a point the coords remain stationary at the last picked point. Can't imagine h...

I never noticed because I run them down the right side, 3 or 4 wide with one row across the top. That makes the screen roughly the best aspect ratio for me. Might not suit everyone but the toolbar fairy doesn't move them around overnight.

In the meantime, there is a shareware program called Wordweb which I find really useful. Just highlight a word (in Entprop in the case of Icad) and click on WW, wherever you are working in the computer. Not as extensive as a really good dictionary but it has thesaurus and language choices, and faste...

Seems to me it will only change if you deliberately work in model space inside a viewport, if you don't want to do that why not just not do it?

There's model space with tilemode on and with tilemode off. "On" is the state when Icad starts, "off" is when you work inside a paperspace viewport - that's only good for minimal editing and zooming and panning to the desired view. The view in modelspace (tilemode on) should not ...

Yeah, "DDE" was a great addition (simple though it seems) to Acad and Icad. I think Icad had it first but Generic had it before either. Works for a lot of commands and for drawing lines - pick start point, run the mouse in the right direction then type the distance. It has suffered buggy b...