Are you structured?

To structure or not to structure, that is the question. Structure is an interesting concept in Mechanical and does have some great advantages. I am not here to argue about it, but I am commenting on how to get around it. When we began with AutoCAD Mechanical 2006 from AutoCAD Mechanical 6 (2002), we found that our drawings now had structure. Structure might seem like a good thing, but we do not work that way and we did not want to rethink our antiquated ways. With structure enabled, we could no longer use our Hide/Restore dialog from previous releases. Our design process (for better or worse) relied on blocks, their naming, and the ability to block edit them. Help! Now, Associative Hide worked but not the way we worked previously with Hide/Restore. The answer, go back in time. Or in layman's terms SAVEAS. Save to a previous version and when you close and then reopen the drawing, make sure Structure is turned off in the ASSIST>>OPTIONS>>STRUCTURE tab of the menu.