Simply 3D was one of my first programs, the problem with it is that has very poor documentation and is a very unstable software. It crashes randomly and often just from loading certain peices of clip art from the programs catalogue. Micrografx knew about the problem and although they released an update patch, the bug was never fixed. They offered a work around that simply doesn't work. I did all the tutorials in the brief S3D manual that was included with the software, but they were more stilted towards business applications: web page graphics, logos, and power point presentations. There are a few tutorials on the web, but not many since it is an old program. The online help is poorly organized. Reading the book Getting Started With 3D helped me more to use the application than anything that came with it. The only 3D file format S3D will export is VRML, which Poser simply thinks is a background picture and not a 3D model. Poser figures can be imported into S3D as Wavefront objects, they even look nice in it; but I just couldn't stand the constant crashes. Even free I don't recommend this software, but it may work better with Windows '95 since that was the operating system it was originally designed for.