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Dave: << Otherwise, I agree with Evan. If you want to have the software, you pretty well have to buy it >> The point I've been trying to get across is that I don't want to "have" the software, I just want to learn it. Right now there is no legitimate way for people to learn software without incurring outrageous costs. If you are not a big engineering firm the dealers won't send you any demo copies. I've tried that route. I would pay a reasonable sum $50-$100 for a crippled version of a program.I think a lot of people would. But since a person learning at home is not taking costly training through the dealer this is seen as a threat to the dealers. The end product (a drawing) and the producer (a drafter) has not changed. But a huge industry has grown up in between the pencil and the paper. The cost of adding a seat in the drawing office is enormous. Made more expensive by having to support a network of dealers, training consultants, hardware consultants, etc. When you spend as much time as I do scrounging for work and trying to keep up with all the different software you begin to resent having to support all these people. Most of whom would not be required if a legit low cost method of training and education were available. I've ranted about this before (and I probably will again) but I realise now that most of the people active in these forums are not users but dealers. Or they are User/Dealers. Trying to make a buck just like I am. Thanks for the response. J.F.