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Thanks for the honest info. I have also found that by simply importing .3DS files direct, I can get at any object my 3DS friend can. My problem was that we were converting to .DXF before import into the toaster. TIO seems to do an OK job converting the 3DS objects. I have notices small differences between the objects in 3DS and VT, but the differences are pretty small. I have noticed that my friend using 3DS on a 486/66 renders much faster than the VT. I have not gotten him to set up a apples to apples compare yet to get real numbers. I hope that in the end we can both be happy with our choice and share what knowledge we each derive from using our respective systems. Mike