Keith, I am finally getting caught up with the E-mails over the holidays. As requested here is the status of the program and my future plans. Current Status: The program can open and view an AutoCad drawing (in model space) created up to A2k. After viewing the drawing you can save it to a DWG or DXF file (any version 2.5 to 2000), plus you can write a snap shot of it as a BMP or XPM file. While viewing there is pan and zoom (in, out, extents, center, window, and previous) capability plus you can set the view direction in 3D space using a dynamic dialog box. Also included is a rudimentary help system. The program will search for and load X-REFS and AutoCad SHX files to display speci al fonts (at least it works with the Big Fonts I have on my system). Future Items: (in the order I plan to work on them) : 1) I want to get a web home page up at Source Forge for the Viewer. This is one of the places where I plan to provide a link to this mailing list (the other is in the project discussion forum). 2) I want to incorporate the new icons you sent into the tool bars, plus I want to implement the 3D hot keys you requested. I also would like to be able to toggle from paper space views to model space views (and back again). 3) I then want to revise the program as necessary to use the OD libraries which should become available 4 to 6 weeks after Acad drops ACAD02 on the market. Viewer currently uses the 2.005 OD libraries which are several versions behind. This should bring the program up to date with the latest from Open Drawing. 4) I would like to have some sort of plot capability incorporated. 5) There seems to be some interest in saving drawings as PDF format and I would like to try that also. 6) If I get to this point it is logical to try to implement some simple editing commands. I am confident that I'll get 1-3 done, after that it really depends upon user feed back. If there seems to be an interest out there (and people are using the program) I am sure that I'll keep plugging away at it. By the time I get to #6 I am going to need some other programming help though. Even if the help is not coding I will, at the very least, need to bounce some ideas off of people as to what is a computationally efficient scheme that can be used to link a vector on the screen to a specific entity inside the drawing data base. You really can't edit until you answer that basic question. The OD people have mentioned once or twice that they MAY make this capability part of some future release, but I gather it is more of a wish list item than something with which we can hang our hats on. I hope this gives you the information you need. This is slightly embarrassing to ask, but what exactly is the address of your web page? I knew that you had a page somewhere with snap shots of Linux Cad programs displayed (and I am pretty sure I even checked it out once), but I don't have the address written down anywhere. Andy