Patricia, I will certainly try that. I do recall that box. Unfortunatley I've lost the file and am waiting for the engineer to re-send it to me. Would that explain the slow speed? Thanks, Greg(4ever17).

Patricia, I'm finally starting to get a handle on all of this importing and exporting stuff and understanding the way it all works. The young man thats doing the programing for the fire system I'm installing was on site the last two days and he had the file he sent me on his laptop and last night we were able to get it into the punch program. He showed me a few ways of saving folders and we made sure and set up a folder I could always retrieve it from. You were right about the import size. We tried importing it in feet and inches and it was still to large to fit on the design window. (You only have so many options.) We ended up importing it in centimeters and it was finally in a size I could deal with. The original floor plan was done on autocad in 1988. This specific plan was a detail plan of the school and showed everything imaginable from the faucet handles metal racks, all of the fire alarm devices and like I said,"everything imaginable". Needless to say it ran real slow. For what I want to do with the plan I didn't need all the detail so I started deleting what wasn"t necessary and as I did it started responding quicker and quicker. I think I'm finally starting to understand. Thanks Greg(4ever17).