Chad, Excellent stuff!!! I have to learn TurboCad or autocad...somethingcad! I've been doing stuff ala Dave Platt, which I think is a must to know...just to have better understanding of what it is we're really accomplishing here. It's no easy task for sure, but it's something anyone can learn how to do if they really want to. I know that CAD makes the process so much faster, and neater. But I don't think that CAD drawn plans are superior to hand drawn. I was a programmer in another life, and one of the bits I remember was a professor drilling into us "garbage in, garbage out.". Granted these programs have probably been designed to recognize if something is too far off, so in that sense they have the ability to be neater. But ya know, despite understanding the lightening of the workload that CAD gives us, I would still take a quality set of hand drawn plans any day. They are a work of art. Usually anyone that understands engineering and has taken the time and effort to draw up a 3 view, or plans has also put a lot of love for the subject as well.

Anyway, now that I've gotten that out of the way...excuse me if I'm rambling today, Dr. gave me some very good pain pills! In about 30 minutes, I'll probably pass out! Chad, I didn't mean to interupt your thread. I think this is a great thread and will be a big help to many of us. A friend gave me AutoCad 14.01, what version are you using? I'm also going to get TurboCAD, unless of course I can translate this stuff to 14.01??? I know nothing about CAD or one version from another.

Keep it up!
Rob / karchmarek