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JKJ, >> I refer largely to the ability to do many (I mean 10 or 20) booleans on a single object to create complex beveling, cutouts, tapers, fillets, etc. << If you haven't already heard about it, you should find a local Authorized Mechanical Reseller and check out AutoCAD Designer. We have been demoing the pre-release code (ship date arount 2/1/94) and it is HOT, HOT, HOT. I modeled a bracket for a client today that included 5 major components, 3 (yes 3!) 2-axis compound fillets, curves, holes, etc. – produced a paperspace sheet of 3 ortho views, 1 iso view and an enlarged detail view – put a mesh on the object – took it across the network to my Studio machine – mapped it in chrome – and had an image on the Targa – elapsed time, 35 Minutes for the whole operation!!!!!! Remember, this is while I was demoing the software. Before I started, the client estimated that it would have taken his draftsman 2 hours to produce the 2D part of this alone. For anyone that does mechanical parts it is killer! Kinda' like AME all grown up! Chuck