Tomansky wrote: > For those of us who must buy our own AutoCad(tm) brand CAD software, > it runs $3800.00 for the first copy. I've heard good reports about two garment-design software packages... One is Dress Shop, from Livingsoft, which has been mentioned recently here. Their URL is: http://psln1.psln.com/livingsoft/dresshop/dress2.htm The other is Fittingly Sew from Soft Byte. Here's the URL for the US distributor, Knitcraft: http://www.knitcraft.com/ I haven't used either one, but both are considerably less than $3800! I believe neither is more than $300, but I'm not sure. You can download a demo of Fittingly Sew from Knitcraft's page, and I believe that Livingsoft has a demo available as well (the page I found doesn't have a direct link though). hope this helps! miriel