Importing objects from other programs is a Bryce feature and rightfully so. Bryce is a terrain generator and a poor and cumbersome modeling program for anything else. If it were as easy to model objects in Bryce as say in, 3D Studio Max, Rhino, Amapi, Lightwave or any of the other 3D packages, there would be no need to use a 3rd party modeling program now would there? It takes a considerable amount of skill, time and talent to be able to model your own objects and my hat goes off to those that can and do. All image and 3D software programs are artistic tools and placed at our disposal to use in any combination we desire. Let's not divide the community using the "purest" argument. It's like saying "only the use of water colors permitted no oils, pencils or charcoal".