At the top of your program it should say "Pro" and "vcp" in the program title bar if you have the Pro version. Otherwise, it says vc2 or vc3.

Shawn, I presume that you live inside the USA? It seems that us Brits don't get a printed manual with our copies of VC. Punch say they don't have the means of doing it, and Cadsoft just suggest that I use someone like LuLu, which I tried doing, but then found out that making a one-off would cost about as much as a licence for the software. I really hate reading manuals as pdf's on a screen front. I like to curl up on the sofa, lie in bed, or even on the loo with a good manual to read and thumb through- and now there is evidence proving that information is taken in far more effectively from books.

Right rant over.

Yes it's true, I moan a lot- but can you blame me?? :rolleyes:

It appears the more you learn VC, the more you moan, is there a link there? :eek: :rolleyes: :D

LOL!

Actually I like VC a lot. It's just so deep, and design is not my only forte, that I often forget how to do simple tasks. It is this which makes me frustrated. Design software shouldn't be frustrating, it should be transparent and simple to use. I'm quite enjoying Sketchup too at the moment, but miss many aspects that are here in ViaCAD.

I can't win. :eek::rolleyes:

Exactly. And to make matters worse, Build 768 is all that is available on the store shelf. So when Tim shows a screen on how to do something, those of us who are not beta testers get screwed.

I've seen ViaCAD Pro 6 in the stores in the US. That's how I first heard about it.

Nahh.. To be fair to Tim, all you gotta do is email him privately and ask for the latest patch. I, too, was confused at first. I am not sure exactly why other than maybe this helps keep a pulse actual interest. I suppose interest could be tracked electronically, tho.

So far, i think the current patch is fairly stable for me except when i start to thicken or create surfaces between some really long, but self-intersecting and funky lines (aka curves) because i don't have the automated fairing tools in the pro version of Delftship.

(Aside: I suppose i could use the tools in VCP to smoothen out lines before building surfaces, but partly i've been lazy, and partly i'm thinking the funky lines will serve as a sort of "fingerprint" for my works for copyright reasons since, even if someone manually reproduced my hull by hand, they won't likely reproduce it node-by-node and be able to claim original, simultaneous creation.)