CompuServe Messages

Steven – Actually, there's a pretty good argument against disclosing the .DWG file format to *anyone*. If Autodesk were to encourge the proliferation of external applications that are tied to a specific release of AutoCAD vis a vis the drawing file format, then users of those applications would not be overly- anxous to upgrade to new releases of AutoCAD (with an incompatible drawing file format), because none of their external applications would work with drawings produced by the new release(s). To me, that's like shooting ones own foot off. -TonyT.