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/* I tend to work with AME a lot as well. You can't beat it for complex roof lines. You're going to love Optimize! Have Fun. */ Michael's right about a lot of AA's capabilities. I've just been spoiled by the ease of 3DS to generate curvilinear geometry. I also get frustrated with AA's occasional surfacing capabilities. Wall-generation isn't so bad, but doorways, windows… fixtures (ug)… not so easy to work with, and very choppy. Even highest degrees of smoothness on AA stuff doesn't equate to simple 3DS-generated meshes. And I use a tremednous amount of curved filleting. AA doesn't have too much in the way of rounded-corner stuff. I'm not exclusive about tools, I'll use the best of all worlds. 🙂 But I'm still convinced at this point that (like your roof example) AME has tremendous power to do what no other 3rd party discipline-specific app does yet. Roofs are good, for me the focus is fixtures… bathroom, ceiling, furnishings, etc. A few cross sections and Boolean extrusions and intersections and I (and you!) can whip out furniture which beats the heckout of most 3rd-party supplied libraries. I gave Gary's demo OPTIMIZE a hard look… and I can't wait. 🙂 -dave