> Does anyone know of a way to design the plywood panels from an AutoCad
> drawing (R14)? Is there some feature that will do this, or is there a
> program that will work with an AutoCad file?

Yes it can be done in R14, but don't ask me how. We had a speaker in my Intro to Engineering course (bogus course maybe not for some kid just out of HS) last Thursday using R14 and he did take a drawing that he was making for his demonstration and made it flat. But honestly I have no clue how he did it.

Get a book and start reading. (Do what I often do, just play with it and you may just find it or at least you will find other cool things you can do.)

Jason