Just checked out the Amapi vids at Eovia. Can see the similarities now between the two programs. All the more reason to combine them I guess.

I am waiting for Amapi Designer to arrive (EBay purchase). Is Designer 7 like version 6.1 (free download from Eovia) or like Hexagon? I am particularly interested in character design and animation.

Hexagon is the way to go for organic modeling and character models. I just bought version 1.2 with the free update to version 2 coming in April. The new version looks amazing! I was thinking I would have to pay $500 eventually for Z Brush for it's cool displacement mapping brushes, but Hexagon will offer similar tools for a fraction of the cost. Plus the benifits of UV mapping/unwrapping for texture maps rather than importing to Carrara to do the UV mapping. You can always upgrade to Pro later, but I think Hexagon is the best bang for the buck right now.

Putting these two programs together seems like a great idea to me too. Both are modeling programs designed to support Carrara, and integrate nicely with it. I am pouring myself into Hexagon right now and absolutely love it, and plan on getting a handle on Amapi Designer 7 soon. The creation of unimesh objects is tedious and difficult in Carrara, but much easier in the two modeling programs.

Dear memaci, Thank you, thank you, thank you! I tried your suggestion and, viola! it worked beautifully. Thanks again all of you for the helpful suggestions. Kirk

I tried duplicating then using the flip command as per your suggestion, but it made no difference. the item duplicated is still not a mirror image and it still spins on its center point as I rotate my camera around the assembly room. Today I purchased Ray Dream 5.5 on eBay and may end up having to use it for this kind of modeling. I'm disappointed that Eovia has not addressed this issue. It seems to be a bug that needs to be fixed. In reality, I liked RDS 5.5's interface better and wished they had expended their energy on including a decent patches/nurbs modeler and the ability to rotoscope an image into modeler to work from (ala Animation Master or LightWave) than all the interface eyecandy.