Thanks for the info. I went to the site and checked out the demo. It says the feature that allows you to print a large drawing to multiplte sheets(for a small printer) is disabled in the demo. How did you get around this to print the templates? Or can you print this size?

: I am helping a friend build a Great Auk and I printed the form patterns using
: a free demo called CadStd Lite (www.cadstd.com). There are a few other CAD
: programs that I've seen mentioned on this forum. As for reducing the size
: of the boat, Nick's book describes how to do it and Excel or other
: spreadsheets make the process relatively painless. I didn't reduce the
: size of the forms so the only "tricky" (but still fun) part for
: me was figuring out the most efficient way to get the coordinates from
: Excel into the cad program.

: happy CADding,
: Bret