Quote - Right, but in my opinion, Carrara is garbage and is 100% definitely what you do not want to use in arch vis work.  I'm not impressed witht he render quality.  Like....at all.

I think you are more architect than 3D modeler?  Carrara is a fine application; not in the high end, but many very competent 3D application users seem to like it just fine -- for the $$$.  BTW, it has a very good render engine.

Vue is a fine application, based on its targeted use.  All 32bit applications are hitting the memory wall right now -- even high end 32 bit 3D apps. are crashing quite a bit.

Me thinks you should stick with SketchUp -- Google gives out the basic application for free.