> I'm still puzzled by Benny boasting about having a German girlfriend even 
> though he didn't speak German yet... How the hell does *that* work?? o_O

In Germany everyone learns English at school, and a lot more than any 
foreign language you learn in an English school.  My girlfriend (who is 
German) speaks English better than me, we had a 16 year old student in our 
office last year, she spoke English pretty well.

> Well, it *did* seem to have some pretty extensive texturing facilities... 
> I spent most of the time playing with that. However, as far as shapes go, 
> it seemed to only handle polygon meshes.

Ummm yeh, it's a mesh based modeller, what do you expect?  Those spheres and 
cylinders you rendered were actually made up of triangles (you can control 
the number of triangles in some property box somewhere, and it can be 
different for real-time editing and rendering).

> Our library tends to be very sparse on computer books.

Go to a bigger one then.

> (Every day I see manufactured objects of such complexity that it seem 
> completely clear that whoever designed them must be using something a tad 
> more sophisticated than any of the software I've seen so far.)

Just watch a bit of this to see how Catia works with making basic parts:

http://de.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb2A9OKCAUc

They design whole planes and cars with this software so it has to be quite 
sophisticated.

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