I joined the forum back in March but have lurked mostly so want to say thank you for a great forum. The amount of information is overwhelming to say the least! So a little about me....I'll soon be 73 and I began working with Corel back in Feb knowing that was my first hurdle. A couple years before I had my butt solidly kicked by SolidWorks so I was intimidated to say the least. By July I screwed up my courage and purchased a laser engraving machine which arrived in August. Everything I read in the SMC forum said it would take 6 months to begin feeling somewhat competent and that's certainly been true in my case. I AM slowly making progress but find 6 hours/day is about my limit and then I have to step away and let it soak in. Time will tell whether or not I made a good decision but I've chosen to see it as "therapy" because if I didn't have something to focus on I'd probably being paying for therapy of a different sort, lol. Thanks for listening and everyone have a great day!