First of all over all I really love this program and the concepts behind it. The interface and methods are fairly easy for me to grasp coming from sketchup.

But here are my concerns I need to address and most of these are probably my ignorance:

1. Bill of material: Easy to understand. BUT some how whenever I do manipulations on a object sometimes I lost that objects name attribute. Same if I copy an object it does not copy the name.

This means I am probably doing something wrong. But constantly having to rename objects uses up a great deal of time. Like I said I am probably doing this wrong. When I watched one of the videos it had a eyedropper attribute copier. But as far as I can tell it does not copy the name. It would make sense to me to have that option.

But I need to know how to mass edit names or how to prevent the names from being changed.

2. Push / pull: The push pull gives more problems than I can say. I have spent 14 hours straight doing things with it. And I have problems duplicating a sucessful operation twice in a row.

This so far is my greatest concern and the main one that gives me pause before I purchase the software. I can literally model using only push / pull in sktechup and produce an entire bunkbed in under 15 minutes- because the push pull can snap to any other plane of a edge, snap point, or surface of any other object.

I need to be able to push / pull and snap to endpoints, edge, face of other objects on same plane. I watched the videos and you seemed to be able to do this in the videos but I never got the same behavior for my self. Again what am I doing wrong?

3. Push / pull selection: this rarely works for me at all. If I draw a line or shape onto an object, set the work plane to the object, select the lines and try push pull most of the time it does not work.

But I can exit software and restart the project and the same operation works fine- then it stops again.

This really is frustrating for me. I assume these things are happening: a gap in the lines, on the wrong plane, or an angry demon is blocking my cursor! ;)

I am a visual designer- which means I like to take objects and rotate, push pull to length etc. Right now either I am doing something wrong or there is a bug.

4. Software crashes:

Total crashes yesterday: 7. The crashes always occur on dimensioning, rotation, translation, or undo.

The last crash gave an error about msvcrt.dll (sp?? (it closed before I could screen capture)) error so this could be my system causing problems not your software. Although I did see there are forum posts about similar crashes during rotation actions.

5. Lastly I keep struggling with mass edits for example with rendering, or line changes I have problems say changing all the line colors in a model from white to black. Or editing a material and apply to whole model instead of one object. Being able to render in lifelike wood is important when closing a deal with customer.


That's it I am not complaining, Of all the software I can afford your is the best fit so far. But these are the problems I need to over come. ANd as I said in another post I am not adverse to paying $20 to $40 bucks for some specialized online tutoring on overcoming these issues.

JB

>>.. mass edit names or how to prevent the names from being changed.