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To Jerome & Anne and everyone else whose intreasted. I think that one of the problems 3D work in general is so underused is that most people/architects/engeineers whatever are taught from an earl age to produce drawings on flat sheets of paper i.e. 2D and therfore they get into the hang of thinking in flat planes without the Z axis, because of this when they have a CAD package placed in front of them they stick with what they know, I dont know how the educational system handles it elsewhere in the world, but over here you only tend to get to learn how to work in 3D once you have masterd 2D drawing, now unless like myself you are a fast learner at CAD you hardly cover 3D work at all, this is probably the biggest mistake educational establishments currently make, if the students were taught 3D work earlier more of them would use it, but thats just my humble opinion !……. Of course one of the other problems is getting an output you can take to your clients, fortunatly this is becoming easier and perhaps more improtantly cheaper, most clients dont want to watch a computer screen or come to your ofices, they'd much rather see a nice selection of renderd pictures or better still a videtape and pictures, with the availability of cheap high quality inkjets the stills are certainly becoming cheaper and easier to produce, now if only getting output to tape was as cheap <Whistful Sigh> perhaps next year ?……. Anne I was intrested by your comments, now I have one, I don't imagine for one minute that your former associates learnt by their experience and had someone employed/trained in the use of 3D construction, if they didn't it just goes to show how narrow minded that people can be !……. Jerome personaly I use ACAD & AEC for construction with a little 3DS for those arkward details like complex handrails and the like and of course for the rendering, I found I just couldn't get the accuracy I wanted using 3DS for interior detailing on its own the ACAD lets me construct items like for example a display case and place it exactly in a room, what do is export the room mesh to 3DS and adjust the faces to suit then reexport the room mesh back to ACAD and frreze it for placement of the interior details, but what I'd really like is a faster method of doing this, that's what I ment by my previous coments, If i could have both progs running under NT (anyone got a spare 256 MB ram ging cheap) plus say animator studio and Photoshop ( Better make that 512 MB ) I'd be a happy man. oh and whilst i'm at it a background video compiler that would create and output a walkthroug straigh to tape in say 20 mins ( I Know I'm dreaming but maybe in a year or two, who knows ) so anyone else have any ideas ? I mean how do we increase the usefulness of 3DS to architects / designers whatever ? For that matter what do we really want that we dont already have, or cant afford ( there's that 512 mb Ram again) more importatly how do we convince potential clients that they should use our creative genius instead of fred's who still uses pen and paper and the back of old cigarrett packs and table napkins to present his designs until we manage t convince our clients that because we use CAD we can do at least as good a job, were geting nowhere fast. what makes us so special ? after all other people can use a computer can't they ?………….. Well hopefully this little message should provoke one or two more intersting responses, over to you guys………………… David