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Itaete Roberson
I've noticed in the last few versions of AutoCAD that the application closes without warning if I click on the big 'A' twice too fast. Sometimes there is a pause when you click it once, and doubt wether I actually clicked successfully, so do it again, quite quickly. If it's too quickly and the first WAS successful the second click (& I haven't done a Ctrl+S recently) causes me to lose my recent work. Anyone else get this?
You can hold the ALT key for a second or two to bring up keyboard activation shortcuts (keytips) which will show you the one for the Application Menu. That's just another way to get there. You can read about this >>HERE
@Anonymous-g Really, such as? Minimise maybe, not just close surely....I'll be looking from now on.
@pendean
Yes, closing without warning is pretty much a crash. I wouldn't say "it causes me to lose my recent work" if it didn't! Have you tried it?
Thanks steve-g, 'many' programs do infact close on a fast double click on the top left icon, I've not noticed that before. A single click brings up the menu, and at the bottom is 'close' so it seems 'most' programs seem to default to the last item in the list. None of them give a warning including ACAD.
Lol, I don't have all day to mess about with reinstalling over this issue, and as steven-g says, it is a standard Windows operation.Even windows that don't have an icon still display the menu if you click in that area, and also close when you double click (fast).. although some DO actually give the option to save.
If you use your mouse at a snails pace, you'll never notice it. But if you've wound up you machine like any production engineer would, you'll have every Windows program closing without warning on a double click, many other programs including ACAD does too. Whether it works like that when the mouse is set to double click I don't know. I can't be bothered to try it, nor will I ever use it. I can't understand why people double click all day!! or the black screen...LMAO
I did this a few times when I first started using autocad. It was super annoying. After a half dozen times of doing it by mistake, I just learned to not spam click the "A". I just click it once and let the menu open as I learned my lesson. I also just tested it and it always asks me to save when I fast click the "A". I tried with 1,2,3,4, and 10 tabs open.
hi @stevebaer
In my testing, it is very wired that autocad(2023) behaves, sometimes it can be transferred with any type of objects including annotation, block, brep, etc. from Rhino in a short time, and once trigger some stuff that i could not find out the rule yet, it will always transfer into a picture.