> He's my success. Still a little modeling to do, but I'm happy so far.

Cool, it looks like it is coming along really well!


> My poor old computer at home is so slow. This model really bogs it down.

One thing that might help is go to Options / View, and under the "Meshing parameters" section at the top, set "Mesh angle" to 20 (instead of the default 10), and uncheck "Add detail to inflections".

This will make the shaded display have fewer polygons in it, which will make it look sort of more jaggedy on the screen but can help speed the display up a bit too.

On that same options page you can also turn off showing hidden-line curves and edges, that will also speed things up a notch but it will make it harder to select some edges since they won't be displayed through the model like they normally are.

A lot of times an older computer can be juiced up quite considerably by adding some additional RAM and a newer video card. If you've got a really old video card, even one of the really inexpensive newer generation ones (like around $40) will speed up the screen redraw quite a lot. I can give you some suggestions on upgrading your machine if you are interested.

- Michael