That problem might not wholly be a shark fault.
It seems in the last couple of weeks quite a few people, (more than normal) are having issues with the metric imperial bug.
Which is of no consolation for you.
Windows just had a bigger than normal upgrade so they may have reset the processing metric imperial procedure which would be out of punchcads control.
However Punchcad don't have a system where they email you with a patch link either. Which for a standalone program is user beware for the changing of old operating platforms rendering software unusable on updated operating systems, but then again the program released has never been bug free and some would argue not up to scratch. (like, its not a go fund me concept thing)


The lack of communication or even marketing emails from punhcad to me is one huge missed sales opportunity. (You dont want to be spammed but product updates and sister programs being offered once every 6 months or so is just normal business practice)
They make one off sales and you never hear from them again. Hunhhh, what the F#5!@? They must be the only genuine software company to work like that.
I think Tim Olsen used to do some promotional emails but nothing that I recall for 2 or 3 years now.

Users are to a degree invested in this product, like this product, and don't want to move to another program but there is no link to the company other than the forum or the web site, which is reliant on the user to pursue.

Its only sales of programs that is paying for program development. The more sales the more programing people they can pay to develop it. It makes no sense to me not to have an active email sales strategy that would in turn lead to a bigger budget to fix issues.


I said 2 or 3 years ago somewhere on the forum programs that aren't subscription based these days, tend to die away and fade out of existence.

I hope they get their act together soon.

Has anyone looked at or used bricscad?
I'm not technical enough to compare features but it looks okay at a glance.

The file that maintains the units preference is
C:\Users\[[USERNAME]]\AppData\Local\Punch!\SharkCAD\SFXPrefs.ini

The [Units] section contains the key UnitType, with values of
1 = inch
2 = feet
3 = feet/inches
4 = millimeters
5 = centimeters
6 = meters

This file is deleted and renamed whenever Apply or OK is clicked from Preferences, and when SharkCAD opens and closes.


The *.ini files in the SharkCAD folder can be monitored with this powershell script.


# SharkCAD.ps1
#
# Usage:
# change [[USERNAME]]
# open cmd
# execute:
# powershell SharkCAD.ps1 # ctrl-c to close
# start SharkCAD
#
# Reference
# https://powershell.one/t...system/filesystemwatcher
#

$watcher = New-Object System.IO.FileSystemWatcher
$watcher.Path = "C:\Users\[[USERNAME]]\AppData\Local\Punch!\SharkCAD\"
$watcher.Filter = "*.ini"
$watcher.IncludeSubdirectories = $true

$fileOp = {
$path = $Event.SourceEventArgs.FullPath
$changeType = $Event.SourceEventArgs.ChangeType
$logline = "$(Get-Date), $changeType, $path"
Write-Host $logline -ForegroundColor Yellow
}

Register-ObjectEvent -InputObject $watcher -EventName "Created" -Action $fileOp
Register-ObjectEvent -InputObject $watcher -EventName "Changed" -Action $fileOp
Register-ObjectEvent -InputObject $watcher -EventName "Deleted" -Action $fileOp
Register-ObjectEvent -InputObject $watcher -EventName "Renamed" -Action $fileOp

$watcher.EnableRaisingEvents = $true

do
{
Wait-Event -Timeout 1
Write-Host "." -NoNewline
} while ($true)