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The thing I notice about SW is its infallible tendency to get itself so tied up in a knot that escape is totally impossible - I'm constantly battling SW to make it do something that seems so simple yet it's so difficult because it's beyond reasonable grasp -- just like how French phrases are all backwards and out of order, compared to English, so too does SW backwards seem and order quite out often of (harming its otherwise yumminess). Today's example: Import DWG from AC as 2D sketch. Of course the 2D-3D tools wrap the projectection in reverse from what I want, leaving it impossible to correct w/ the simplistic 2D-3D toolbar. One knot. Next is inability to remove the "Model" "sketch" from the "Model" and an inability to change the sketch plane. I used quotes because a sketch that has no plane is not really a sketch (since mere mortals can't make a sketch WITHOUT a sketch plane). Yet SW sure can, and does, and then it locks you with inability to change the sketch plane. My "sketch" is stuck on the "Model" and does not even show the (right-click) option of "Edit Sketch Plane" - it's just not there. So I can't move the holes "sketch" to attach it, say, to the face it drills through - it just projects from never-never land called "Model". I find SW doing **** like this constantly. It constantly has all these goofy little rules and secretive changes, and I'm constantly left grasping and annoyed. Now, AC is truly much worse. I'm looking forward to trying Inventor. Honestly I'm finding it's better just to start over, that the DWG import tools in SW really don't result in primary objects that resemble anything you can create yourself - the result of importing and using the 2D-3D tools is half-assed and difficult to edit later -- in my case tonight, locked out of being able to move the sketch plane...easier faster just to break out the ruler and calipers, throw away the old AC file, and start completely over. Seriously. And this is hardly the first time.