Note: Autodesk is waiting for us to produce the fix by opening up their software for you. They did it before with Mechanical Desktop and AutoCAD then either took or purchased it from other sources, why would they not go about this now, it worked in the past and still to this day the 2d program is stated as one of the best ever produced. Now as the question has been asked "Why did they completely diverted from the original?” In earlier releases of Inventor we were not able to convert 2d drawings and now it has more to desire. Why did they replace AutoCAD 2d with ?… to put it another way Autodesk now ships with Inventor their other cad products, somewhere along the line somebody within may have actually thought about it but still could not be convincing enough to make that leap. I still have not been convinced that Inventors 2d part (idw) is the way they should continue go, it would be interesting to be a fly listening to any arguments on this in those meeting rooms between MD and IV developers. My point was by just going part way with the software or features leaves room for others outside of Autodesk to correct or make it better and if you do it right it could make you rich and/or proud that that the add on feature was the one you produced. I’ve put my opinions in this group before trying to improve Inventor, but nothing should be done to improve the auto shutdown feature it works just fine, and I hope Autodesk continues to read into these forums. Mech_D
