*sardonic laughter*

But thanks for the tip about ProgeCAD! I'll check it out.

And, I sent a question about import/export to the X-CAD email... Let's see how long it takes them to reply with anything more than the automated "thank you for your question" I already received. I'll post the result here.

[I just knew, when ordering this new box, that the upgrade to 512 Mb was going to be worth it...]

I had a couple of months' experience working in Arch. Desktop four years ago, and was getting to like it better than the pre-ACAD2000 method of handling x-refs. Even so, the 3D entities being use by the architects were irrelevant to my pure-2D diagrammatic representations.

And I'm not surprised by the idea that most places, when they're working at all, are too busy getting the drawings and specs out the door to make them from full and accurate 3D models. AutoCAD's dreams of grandeur haven't changed much since R2.0... they also don't get much closer to being realized.