Swingman wrote:

Well done ... can't wait to gain some more proficiency with the program. It
is almost as fun as woodworking. Hell, all you have to do is go out to the
shop and do in wood, what you did in bits/bytes.

This is how I got out of woodworking and into computing. Even though I
was VERY proficient at drawing stuff by hand, something all wood workers
must be good at, in the early days of home computing, my wife brought
home a $4000 IBM PC XT with 2 360k floppies and a 10 MEG hard drive.
State of the art computer provided by her credit union. I of course
started fooling with it, got hooked, and eventually got my own, a 486.
THEN I decided to get my hands on a CAD program, got Design CAD, and
what used to take me 1/2 hour to sketch up by hand, was now taking me
WEEKS to get perfect using the computer, and I also discovered that
computing, particularly programing, was just like woodworking, without
the wood, with total correctable mistakes, and a nice product that did
stuff when you were done. My wood shop became idle, and has pretty much
been so for about 15 years.

I'm trying to get back into the wood shop, and away from the computer a
bit more now, and have tried SU, in fact tried it 3 times now. First
time tried it w/o reading any instructions... not so good. Second time,
read enough instructions/tutorials to figure out this is a hell of a
program. 3rd time spent a few days on some good tutorials, and wow I
said, this thing is REALLY slick and worth learning.

Then I got off track, and forget a lot of what I learned already, but in
the fall I think I'll put a final push on to get the thing to always do
what I want (SU is easy and powerful, but it can get away from you
pretty easy at first, sort of like a wild horse with a mind of it's own.)

--
Jack
http://jbstein.com