Command in progress

[Winks87]

The command in progress error reared its ugly head again this morning.  I was modifying a dimension (moving dimension text between lines) when it told me "command in progress...".  Cannot save, escape, nothing.  I did notice that when I move the mouse, it seemed to be scrolling the "command in progress" in the command line.  I cannot figure out exactly what is causing this, its hard to notice until it happens.  I am running Autocad Mechanical 2013 on Windows 7 with a 3dConnexion Space Explorer.  I have the Space Explorer set to 2d mode while in Autocad.

Has anyone else seen this behavior?  Autodesk - please help with this, this is killing my production!

[Winks87]

Ok, I may have noticed a pattern.  It appears that the unbreakable "command in progress" loop happens when fiddling around with dimensions.  I was dragging dimension text when it happened the last time.  Dragging dim text while autosave is happening maybe?  This is happening to several users here - has anyone else had this problem?

[steve216586]

I've had that problem sporadically ongoing since 2004Mech. CTRL/ALT/DEL Shut down and reopen. And hope you manually saved recently beforehand.

[Winks87]

Yes, that's what I have to do.  Verified something this morning: changed the text style of a dimension thru the properties box and it immediately sent up the "command in progress" error.  Clicked the "x" to close the drawing (just to see if it would) and recieved a message box stating: "Lock change in progress".

Autodesk: what does this mean?

[Steve_Bessette]

Would it be possible to provide a sample file where you are experiencing this behavior?  I have attempted to test on a new file using the acad.dwt template and was unable to reproduce the behavior.  

Regards,