I use LightWave almost exclusively at home and at my place of business... I like the idea that someone is always trying to build a better mousetrap... I mean modeling software. If I'm on the road with a Laptop and I have to leave the LightWave dongle at home (expensive piece of hardware) I need some software to model with. Blender would be a great choice, but from the looks of it... it doesn't export LightWave files. Too bad.