Assuming I have to pay full price next year, if that PayPal option is available I'll go that route. That, combined with the fact that I can pay on their site using PayPal means I can use my PayPal credit deal and get six months to pay with zero interest.

Well, as it turned out, after my two-week free trial expired, I got an email from them offering the year for $168. My problem with large yearly subscriptions is that they always sneaks up on me. If that was broken down into $20/mo payments, it would be fine, but the price for the monthly plan is around $32/mo. I hesitated to go pro because the subscription is $240/year. You can keep deleting and making new designs as often as you want, but you're limited to two at a time. Other than that, it does everything the pro version does, so you have a free platform to learn and play on. The free version allows two designs and disables the import/export and some features like coloring the parts. I really think anyone would find it approachable if they give it a chance.

I'll post a couple of things I've done when I get around to exporting them. There's no Layout feature per se, but you can project parts onto the three planes and create a 2D view with dimensions. You really need that if you're presenting a design, and you do a really good job with it. A big thing missing is being able to apply textures and patterns to surfaces, so no wood grain look. It wouldn't come close to what you use SU for though. But instead of creating a line for the taper to begin at, you do the taper part, pull up the square part where the aprons will attach and then join the two.

The tapered leg threw me because I went into it thinking like a SU user. It always takes me a couple of tries to get the Follow Me thing to work in SU. I've only been playing around with it for a short time, but I've managed to model a cabinet, complete with bead profile frame and panel doors, a table with tapered legs, etc. Click to expand.I thought that too when I first looked at it, but within a couple of hours (and watching a few videos) I was off and running.

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