You could maybe tell your boss you're going to draw chips and resistors and capacitors and...

I know what you mean about the price. I thought it was pretty pricey but decided it was like adding another tool to my shop and there weren't any power tools on my want list right now. I expect it will work for me for a very long time. I don't really do any woodworking for hire but I might.

FWIW, I've completed the lower part of the shop cabinet (except the doors) I posted earlier. The drawing I did in SketchUp served as the only plans. I did all the dimensioning in SU. Since I put the various components on individual layers I was able to hide things that I didn't need for the portion of the cabinet I was working on at the time.

I'll have to take some pics of the base unit and post them.