But it all depends on what you want to do, doesn't it? Shade is a spline-based modeller (with some polygon mesh tools thrown in to let you do morph targets for your Poser figures), whereas Hex2 is for polygon modelling.

As a Shade user I'm seriously thinking about buying Hex2 for the polygon tools. I think the two tools will complement each other just fine.

www.oscillator.se/3d - Shade tutorials and Poser freebies.