Does Autodesk hold some patent on the "Esc" key functioning to put the cursor into select mode (by removing any current selection that might have made the cursor prepare for a new command...)?

I wish the Esc key to do what the AutoCAD default function does. I find myself frustrated that when i hit Esc and simply want to rope/lasso some geometry, i instead end up drawing or trimming or doing something that takes 1 or 2 steps to undo.

Thanks, Nick. I probably was going about it the wrong way. I was using the right-click contextual method but could never got the cursour out of tools and into select mode.

Probably this is for another forum area but i found VC would not open dwg files containing blocks. I had to reinstall my "old"/retired copy of TurboCAD 14 Deluxe, just to extract the 2-D blocks of interest. But, fortunately i deprecated TC14D for VC5/6 since VC5/6 gave me heart-warming surfacing and other 3D tools i tore out hair and scraped off dermis when failing miserably in TC. I realize after some time that TC14D has a few things (well, a number of things) VC doesn't, but what VC DOES have i would keep ANY day. If i had $700 to plunk on ONE piece of s/w, it still would be for VC or Shark, seeing Shark will deprecate VC... I just fantasize that Punch!/CSI will implement my marketing idea to shift VC 6/6/6 users over to Shark 5/5/5 (in another of my (lonnnng) posts...

Jeezus H. Jehusefur. That (self-redacted) true-view is a shocker at 194 MB. I hope it will shine my shoes and floss my teeth (without breaking them).

If it is only a viewer and not a markup, then that is an egregious file-size (reinforces sloppy devs hogging disk space?) and if it is vendor-lock-in, it will be yet another reason i eschew AD products in my hobby. Holey MOLEY! I hope that thing is partly installer, and that it comes down to something like 50MB or less. Drives are cheap, but still they don't have the right to chomp on my byte space.

I last week or so did d/l AutoDesk Design Review, and it's virtually useless to me since it won't open .dgw. ..

Check that. Just checked control panel, and ADR is 137 MB, so, I'm ditching it in tradeoff vs 194 mb... seems I'll get back toward the 50 MB i was willing to lose..

Thanks for the advice on TrueView. I recover still more space if TV shows me more than what I am doing in TC14Deluxe, which for now is only to strip blocks out of .dwg, hehehe....