as both an infrequent user and a new user of some of Shark FX's advanced capabilities, I whole heartedly share your frustration and probably then some! I find the sfx User's Guide extremely difficult (bordering on impossible) to use even when supplemented with ViaCAD Tips, Tutorials, and Techniques !! if there was ANY other viable option to a public user's forum, believe me that would be my number one choice!! attempting to find anything with Adobe Acrobat Reader is an invitation to extreme aggravation; it will only find EXACT words or phrases and is not a context driven cross referenced index. most of the material that can be found is written at an expert user's level and assumes the user looking for help knows where everything is AND what all of the constraints to the use of the tool being read about are. for example, pick any tool name you can remember and see if the information you can find in the user's guide includes where the tool can be found on the screen. remembering a tool's name most of the time isn't enough information to find the tool, reference material to refresh your memory, or answer detailed constraint questions............ try "manipulate spline" or "edit spline" and see how much information you can locate; I did among others before resorting to posting a question!! running into multiple bugs and undocumented features/constraints is also not conducive to accelerated learning of advanced features of any software package even with world class documentation.

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