Your exactly right, and thanks for your feedback. I meant to come back and update to share what I learned, but yes, can't connect straight to it as I thought being a newbie. I go in with VS; File, New, Project, and in my case select Analysis Services Tabular Project, and give a new Cube name, select the work space server, then select the existing cube closest to what you want to base the new cube from and you're off to the races.