You are not being rude. I have been involved with other forums and nubees get blasted for asking dumb questions. I don't know enough to ask the right questions yet.
I opened a new assembly, inserted a prt file created by someone else, Added another prt file created by the same person, then created a new prt within the assembly file.
Do I have a problem with the file heirarchy?
I'll be going home in a while.
I'm going to spend the weekend reading about files and search paths. I think that may be where my problem is.
I'll let you know if and when I solve it.
Thank you for taking the time to help me.
pagas