personal prefernce is really where it's at as far as the ware goes. I love Vue's rendering, just wish more exporting was possible with it..only able to export terrain object really sucks. poser is great for "posing" but for developing models rhino, max, amapi, carrera, the list is huge. I'm still struggling with autocad..can't seem to get the shapes into 3d with it for some reason. I know it's me not the ware. ~l~ like rhino for it's simplicity of use, UVmapper for making texture maps, corel photopaint for actually filling texture maps, or postwork if needed. max is fantastic for tweaking the mesh of an object.