dbigers: I always try not to be direct to anyone here. So in my opinion Carrara with the price is not deal breaker. Import and export is the most painful for serious animators who may have many models. It takes up spaces on hard driver, time consuming to make file names, browse for specific objs to import into scene, and import compatibility. That is a real problem with Carrara that it do not have simple symmetry tool for modeling users to be able to make everything in the scene. It is hard to compare pros and cons with import/export and shift key for symmetry. Frankly Eovia know how to make symmetry, so it is absoltely no excuse for them not to implement it in Carrara VM room. I am not looking into Hexagon or other apps because I considers it waste of time to do with import and export process.