... excellent job of appetite whetting! Fortunately, I know better than to ask for a promise of a date Best Regards, Howard posted: 12 Oct 2010 16:18 from: Martin Wynne Head scratching time again. In most graphics programs the image is described by its horizontal width and vertical height on the screen. But for the sketchboard I can't help feeling this might get confusing for plan views of solid objects. Describing this dimension as the height of a signal box is surely counter-intuitive: reply.php?topic_id=1160 2_121101_140000000.gif The snag though is that I can't think of a more suitable word to use on the dialogs. Neither "length" nor "depth" seem to fit. "Breadth" is possible but looks a bit odd. Logically this is in fact the width of the signal box, and the dimension shown as the width is the length. Until you turn it through 90 degrees? Suggestions for a way out welcome. I'm minded to abandon such terms and call these dimensions delta-X and delta-Y. How ...