For those who may be like me ( as few of those as there may be ), and may have forgotten about this... it may not be too late!

 I put Poser 9 into the cart, then logged out to go and check on my bank account... then forgot about it. Until today. Went back and logged into my cart to still find the same on-sale price, and was then able to complete the transaction!

 Though, I had put Poser Pro into the cart, too ( hadn't made up my mind yet ), and found that it had reverted to full price.

 Needless to say, I removed it before checking out.

 Anyway... finally got an upgrade from Poser 7!

Hello Kathy!

With respect to your question concerning basic lab equipment ( beekers, test tubes, burners, microscopes, eye droppers, slides, petry dishes, vials, chemical jars - etc.) I have been meaning to upload, as freebies, a set of accurately detailed laboratory glassware models, ( hopefully complete with functional setups for various synthetic procedures ) for some time now. 

What I currently have modeled can be viewed in these two images:

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=838969
http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1192621

-and include such items as a classic Ainsworth analytical balance, 3-neck flask, Leibig condenser, seperatory funnel, ringstands, test tube rack, etc.

If these are of interest to you, let me know and I'll try to get on with trying to get them online ( though it may still be awhile, as I'm currently getting resettled into a new apartment, with my main work computers still torn down ). These were modelled in trueSpace, but I can export them as untextured obj files.

I have been wondering ( more or less ) the same thing myself... though just from the perspective of an absolute beginner in Vue who's "test driving" the Vue 3.1 Limited Edition for the first time. It has an interesting rudimentary modeling system that allows creation of decent structures... but if I'm to get on in this app... well, I need more. Namely OBJ file export so that I might polish those structures in my other 3D apps ( mainly trueSpace ). Yes... I do try to do things as cheaply ( still just learning, after all... took me a couple of days to figure out how and which "Limited Edition" apps would allow me to get Xfrog into trueSpace and Vue ) as possible. But I still like to take advantage of the individual strengths of each one of them... and that means they absolutely must ( somehow ) be able to export/import to and/or from each other.