Well I use truespace and wings together and the main reason I like wings for modelling (at least for certain types of models) ... are the selection tools which are not available in truespace ... for example ...
one key press to select an edge loop or and edge ring!!!
in truespace that would involve a painstaking process of selecting edges and rotating the view and selecting edges repeat repeat repeat. plus it has "magnets" which I don't have in truespace. Also, adding detail to a mesh is easier (at least for me) in wings to add a new edge loop to an existing mesh is just two or three clicks ... in truespace I would have to "draw each line one by one"

I can't speak for the LW users but those are a couple reasons why I like wings.

Steve

Wow I think you've done a great job on that. Well I must admit I don't use C4D very much I also have trueSpace and I use that for most things. I've got a AMD 800 Windows 98 256 Meg RAM. The Cinema 4D SE was from a magazine ... and I played around with it ... but I couldn't get my head around modelling everything with splines and lofting and such. (I'm sure I've just not spent enough time with it) But once again I think you've done a great job going the boolean route

NewTek Aura DV will be given away in the next Digit issue that might be worth taking a look at. Steve

Yeah I'm sorry for teasing you like that. I thought it might be helpful still ... I do have Cinema 4D 5 (the one that was givin out in a magazine.) and here's an idea if you don't like doing the booleans. once you have the "bars, struts" built (like was shown in the video) couldn't you make splines that followed the struts and then Loft them? I haven't used cinema much so this might not even make sense hehehe Steve

if you go to www.caligari.com and click on the Architecture Course there is one sample movie you can view which may give you both some ideas. However I believe it's the next movie that shows the actual construction of the vaulted ceiling. but still this maybe give you some food for thought. Hope that helps some, Steve

someone had posted a way to configure metasequoia and make it easier to use (at least I found it very helpful) ... I believe it was in this forum. You might do a search on metasequoia here in this forum. but I don't think it should be any more difficult than ... selecting the object ... clicking on the Rotate, Scale, or Move button ... and then click-draggin in the workspace.