@chris murphy said: Being new to SU I would like to know, in general terms, the power of SU. I realize it is unlikely that it is an AutoCad Inventor, but can i come close to developing a residential material list if i put in the time to get detailed? I realize that may be months if not years in the making. I assume that a dynamic component is SU's term for parametric? Are they formula driven? using an Excel or the like? Can i get reports of quantities, Square footages, etc.? On the surface and listening to others conversations it seems like it could be quite powerful. Thanks for any responses. Chris Dynamic Components are 'parametrics' and have their own internal language - though you can also make simple parametric objects other ways too. The Ruby scripting language gives you access to many of SUp's API functions - base geometry, components and dynamic-component's "attributes" - and there are several 'proto' material reporters if you do a forum search... the woodworkers seem to use these the most to give cutlists etc but in theory if you model it you can schedule it and output as .CSV files etc for Excel etc...

@chris murphy said: Thanks guys. I think SU is going to be fun, and i look forward to all our interactions. Thanks again. Chris And good luck with your house!