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Hi! I'm a mexican systems engineer, needing an advice, a very good one, about some rendering software. In my company, which works on civil engineering, we need to make some presentations about some new construction system, and we'd like to make them with full renderings of buildings without, you know, the walls, leaving only the steel columns and other structural elements on the picture. We already use AutoCAD release 12 for drawing, but it turns to be too difficult to learn and too slow to render in the case of 3D drawings. I've heard that 3DStudio is a very powerful tool for doing that, but is it fast? The difficulty of use wouldn't be such a problem for us, but it would be the speed and size of the software. Our more powerful machine is a 486DX2-66 MHz, 16 MB RAM. I'd really appreciate anyone that could give me some advice. We're facing the fact that we might find that the appropriate software is not from AutoDesk. What do you think? Note: I've already been in the Showcase Forum. They told me to come here. G eetings, Dario.