Hi Rich_Art, yup the planning is way different! It may take a while yet to get to the absolute quickest ways to do things but that's ok - a lot of times even a less quick way will still be pretty speedy overall.

One of the big things for planning is to try and build bigger pieces of your model with a smaller amount of curves, and add detail by combining other solids by booleans or especially by cutting with 2D curves in booleans. When you can use 2D curves that's when things tend to go really fast.

But probably by this point with several projects completed I'm sure you're seeing the benefit of this modeling style for mechanical type models.

- Michael