Editing: change it without drawing it again

Corners and offsets: a plain plate finished

Trim, Extend and Join: three shapes into one outline

Move, Copy, Rotate, Mirror, Scale: one pattern into a symmetric plate

Arrays: a row, a grid, a bolt circle

Stretch a cabinet, and lock the size of the hardware

Assemblies and layers: a door as one object, on a layer of its own

Clearance: the gap set for you, and the opening drawn for a part

Weld into one shape

Cut shapes out of a shape, and keep an overlap

Tidy up for cutting

CNC: from the drawing to the machine

A job from a drawing, a V-carved sign, a picture traced and carved, a photo as shading lines and dots, and a relief, each followed by the simulator cutting it.

Controls: switches, rules and motors

A slide turned back at each end by limit switches and rules, a control panel of buttons, lamps and an alarm running a barrier arm, and a beam that counts pegs and steps a dial.

Drawing and snapping

How drawing works: click or type a size at any time, shapes, a real part outline, points that wake up and the lines through them, every kind of snap, angles taken from a line, and the small things that save time.

Every tool, shown

All forty-four tools in the palette, each demonstrated by the program itself on a scratch drawing, with the tool's name, its key and what it does beside it. Chapters for every tool.

From a blank drawing to a cut part

One job all the way through: a jig plate drawn from nothing with every size typed, made a CNC job (holes, a pocket, the outline on tabs), its G-code written, and the cut watched in the simulator.

How to, and things that move

The program's demonstrations of snapping, typing sizes, angles, editing and notes, then the fourteen on things that move: joints, motors, springs, weight, struts, and parts that stop each other.