Byrdie, Vue is a HUGE memory hog, especially when it comes to importing things from Poser.  The latest beta patch has seemed to improve the issue somewhat, but given that it's beta, I doubt it's applied to PLE (currently exists for Espirit/Pro Studio, Infinite, xStream that I know of).

As for Carrara, it will actually work just fine, but you must have Poser 6 installed in order for Transposer to work correctly.  Once you install Poser 6, add your Poser 7 runtimes to its library and everything should be good to go.  You can use the (crappy, IMO) Carrara native import w/o P6 involved at all if you wish.  

The reason the eovia come DAZ3D folks were denied a Poser 7 SDK hasn't been officially stated, but it's assumed that since eovia (makers of Carrara) was bought out by DAZ3D since the time Carrara 5 came out, and DAZ makes a cheaper, yet nearly as robust and intercompatible direct competitor to Poser, DAZ|Studio, e-frontier decided to thumb their noses at them and say "NO SDK FOR YOU!".  One side effect of this is that eovia/DAZ3D is promising vastly improved support for DAZ|Studio imports in the upcoming Carrara 6.

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