Thanks very much for your welcome and response. I have the instruction book which tells how to set up a part set so I could do that but the instruction book doesn't say how to set up an "AREA", (which is an amalgam of zones) which is what I want, it simply says I need an engineer. Unfortunately there are no Abacus guys still working I think who could tell me how it's done. From the instruction book I think I can get access to the engineer code because I am the "main user" and this would allow me to set up an "AREA".