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  Ivan March 14, 2009 at 2:22am

  i ve liked this group so far am learning alot from your blogs. so guys keep it up
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  Gary December 27, 2008 at 3:37pm

  Sure Skip, I know you are and appreciate that. The weather here in Portland is not typical for us and we are kinda planning the holidays around that. On Christmas only one family member could make it over to our house because the snow and ice was so bad, and today (Saturday) the roads are pretty much back to normal and we are planning to do Christmas again with the rest of gang.
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  Skip Farrow December 25, 2008 at 4:09pm

  no problem Gary...i was just trying to offer a little help...hope you're having a nice holiday....
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  Gary December 24, 2008 at 8:56pm

  Just thought I should clarify something here. What is happening is that AutoCAD terminates completely thus closing my drawing. Sorry for giving the wrong impression.
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  Gary December 23, 2008 at 5:41pm

  Hi Skip,
  
  In the task manager and by clicking on the "processes tab" I found a bunch of executable single files and by right clicking on any of them I wasn't able to find the option; "bring to front". In the "application tab" I found some items that were running and by right clicking on any of them I found the option; "bring to front". So I setup the scenario with the drawing, Java and the screensaver. After the aquarium screensaver came on my drawing had closed and I went into the task manager and couldn't fine it there either. I tried this scenario on my laptop and found that my drawing was still there sooooo I'm pretty sure it is an isolated problem and now I have found that the 3D Flower Box screensaver will also close out my drawing. Oddly enough I don't have this problem with the 3D Flying Objects screensaver.
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  Skip Farrow December 21, 2008 at 7:34pm

  a good way to see if the program is still running is to right click on the task bar at the bottom of your desktop and click "Task Manager"- check in the "processes" tab and see if it is still runing in background..then go to "applications" tab (if indeed it is still running and right click on autocad and choose "Bring to Front." This should get you back to where you were. I believe Autocad has an advanced setting that makes it auto-minimalize when not active for certain amount of time. It could also be that screensaver takes up a lot of computer juice and merely made Autocad (which is also a resource hog) no longer respond. I'm by no means a computer geek either..i've just screwed up stuff so much that i began to learn from my mstakes somewhere along the line...
  thanks for sharing