(Boy, the 2000 character limit is a nag). I'll also put in a plug for Nendo, from Nichimen (http://www.nichimen.com/) It is an odd little program, but you get the feel for how it works very quickly. It is great for creating objects from scratch, and it costs $99. I used it for a while, but I bought the SPARC/Solaris version which Nichimen seems to have abandoned at version 1.0 (no Windows here, just Macintoshes and SPARCstations).