twillis - there's a pretty good tutorial in the Carrara tutorial book. I think it comes with the retail version (i have the student version, so I'm not sure.) It just leaves out one thing...to scale meatballs in different plane right click on them and select the plane that you want to scale them on...same with the rotate. To move them in different planes you'll have to change the view. To do this ctrl (or alt...I can't remember.) + right click in the working area...this will bring up a little box to change views and working planes...I'm sure there is an easier way...but this works very well for me...I'll post a better detailed description along with some pics here in a few...