everyone has given really good suggestions, however I didnt see this one... when doing large scenes, its a really good idea to change display for complex meshes to "box" display. This will significantly speed screen redraw. If you can change the poser figures to box display..any imports to box display..and stones...and any other object that has lotsa polygons, then you will see a quicker redraw... merging scenes is the best way to get a quick placement...you just put em all together in the end... and that suggestion about autokey...sounds very feasible! Id never thought about it, but Im gonna test it ASAP to see if that does indeed produce a quicker redraw. Flickerstreak, that was a great suggestion! BT http://www.brycetech.com/