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I, am working my way through the manual tutorials and hit a problem in the skinning section. I read the comments here about alignment problem and "can not find skin" or what ever. I amysing good old Bob, and his parts, so far I have spent an hour messing about one arrow click at a time trying to find the exact right spot. I have zoomed so close I can only see one intersection at a time, I have tried every thing from aligning it so that the two go from just bearly touching to a slight overlap? So what do you do now? I really can finish the project with out getting past this problem. I have gotten the other arm and both legs skinned with no problem? Any one have a suggestion be sides spending waisted hours repeating the same thing trying at a match? Thanks in advance for any help… Lee