What did we pay for AutoCAD? What did we pay for AutoCAD?

The left pane of the AutoCAD Help window for the REGION command:

Assemblies that fit together in sequence

At my work, we build stuff that connects together, one after the other, in a particular order. We build the stuff in the same order. And we -- the AutoCAD users -- draw them in the same order. We don't have to draw them in that order, but it often creates confusion when we don't.

Simple minds.

Anyway, sometimes in AutoCAD I want to open three or four drawings at once. I click FILE:OPEN and then select the drawings in order, one after the other, the same order described above, and then click the OPEN button.

Used to be okay to select the files and then just slam the ENTER key to open them, but that doesn't work any more. AutoCAD fixed that a couple years back, and now I have to click the OPEN button to open multiple files. That was an "improvement".

Anyway, I select the drawings in the order I want them, and click the damn OPEN button, and the files open for me. But one of them is always out of order. I think it's the first one I select. Always out of order.

In the free Blogger program I use to write my economics blog, I just selected 8 graphs at once and loaded them all into the post I'm writing. I like to number my graphs when I write. And in this case, since there were so many, I just identified them by number when I named the files.

I selected them in order, one through eight, and clicked the button to upload them. And you know what? Blogger kept them in order.

Blogger kept them in order, for free. Too bad AutoCAD can't do that.