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...
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...
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...
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...
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...