We upgraded to 2004 about 3-months ago. It appears to be much faster. Features include Express Tools....great! Bad news is you can't save files to an R14 format, you have to save to 2000 format, then from version 2000 save to R14. Rather stupid, because so many others want files in R14...
Am having trouble creating a readable archive file (tiff or bmp) from a dwg file or a paper space view. Given the plan and profile document created in paper space by LDD (Softdesk Civil, when I create the tiff file the lettering is lost as it is zoomed. The bmp file does the same thing but...