Finally, I Can No Longer Tolerate the Hexagon Crashes

It was just a cube! All I did was stretch it!
I'm tired and I am now giving up on Hexagon. It's just not reliable enough in Windows 8.1.
Time to switch before I gain any level of expertise in Hexagon (which seems unlikely given the frequency of these crashes).
Blender, get in there and pinch hit for Hex; he twisted his glass ankle again!
So I'm reading the doc for Blender now. I have Carrara, but I'm still grouchy from my experience with Hexagon. Sigh.