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Joe, I have to warn my students to *not* help the students from other classes when they are in the labs. Since so much is `breezed over' in an effort to progress to the 3D material, there is a real thirst for the knowledge of some of the `simpler' methods of creating drawings. The other students do catch on and get their assignments done, but they lack the guidance required to show them the optimal methods of creating their drawings. To me the 3D stuff is a dog and pony show, the lack of depth in the traditional methods gets disguised as `tommorrows tools, today'. I do encourage the students to assist one another, admonishing them that there will come a point for all of them where they'll need the input of a fellow student. I don't allow it in the classroom, only in the labs. I often repeat the fact that `the only stupid question, is the one that is not asked'. My assignments are purposely contrived to lead to mistakes as a means of showing error recovery technique. When they know that I set them up to make mistakes, they tend to trumpet what they don't understand in the hope that they've uncovered another of my little roadblocks<g>. Dennis