Hey Tommy,

My initial thought is to drawing everything from scratch. Mostly because I want to run myself through as much code as possible, build up my coding knowledge. Because my knowledge is elementary I am sure I am beginning this way because I don't know better too. I want to build the prompts for weld size, length and spacing between if it's not a full bead. I also want to address other weld types too. Typically here at work we use straight fillets but I am trying to think a little beyond. Once I have the code where I want it, dealing mostly w/everything at the command line and drawing programatically from scratch, I will look to rewrite portions of the code to use a dialog box/user form. After that I will look at more efficient ways to write the code. Most of all I am using this as a training tool. My next project I want to write some code that will batch open acad drawings-saveas another filetype (i.e. lower version level or dxf) and in a different folder.

Again, thank you for every thing. You have really opened my thinking up and helped me understand VBA a lot better. God bless you and your family!

Duane