CC3 Advice

[Beowulf]

Ooops...guess they don't have their demo version available just yet.

[jaerdaph]

I've been using CC since CC2 first came out (about ten years now). The learning curve for CC has been greatly reduced over the years, as has the time required to do things. While part of this I'm sure is due to my now intimate familiarity with the program, the rest of it is due to things such as the drawing tools first introduced in CC2 Pro. CC3 et al. is a CAD program, so it is a different way of thinking if you are coming from a map design background like PhotoShop. As has been mentioned, doing the tutorials/examples is still the best way of learning things. Fortunately, the manual included with CC3 that gives you the basics is now a short, 40 page pamphlet as opposed to the 100+ page manual that CC2 used to come with.