I don't know what the gurus do, but here's what I do when creating a pose from scratch in most cases (not all):

1--Adjust the hip rots as best you can.
2--Adjust the butt and ab dials. (Ignore the rest for the time being. You can hide parts if you like, but I don't bother with that.)
3--Go back and fine tune the hip rots now that the butt and ab dials have been approximated.
4Now fine tune your butt and ab dials to compensate for your corrected hip adjustments. (At this point you are done with adjusting the hip, hopefully ;)
5Moving farther outward from the root (hip) its time to adjust the chest and thigh dials and so on and so forth.

Basically, youre working from the root (hip) outward. I used to get fouled up by doing outer parts prematurely causing me to do more dial spinning than necessary. This little process has saved me a lot of time and its really quite simple. I hope I didnt word it awkwardly. Thanks for asking this question here. Im interested to see others thoughts on this as well.

Message edited on: 05/20/2005 16:42