Ted, These video tutorials are fantastic! I just want to thank you for taking the time to freely share your hard earned experience with us. I have been banging around in Viz for years now and, like the weekend golfer who can smash out 350 yard drives but, as often as not, ends up sliceing the ball deep into the trees, I'm in desperate need of good fundamentals. but usually only have time to figure out one way (unlikely to be the most efficient way) to get the model I need and then pray that I will have enough time to get a half way decent render before time and budget run out. Then... it might be mounths before I get the chance to use Viz again. So, I really appreciate your gourmet tips on how to best use the basic functions, somthing that is very hard, if not impossible, to do on one's own. So, again, thankyou much for your generousity - I really look forward to future tutorials. John