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I'm in a mid-sized (?- about 125,000 people <g>) mid-western city. I've been quoting my time at around $40/hr, but this may be going up. In producing two architectural renderings, an associate and I spent about 25 hours total on each one. 25 x $40/hr = $1,000. This is my general estimate. As our skills increase, we hope to shave time off and effectively raise our hourly wage. Someone in Phoenix is charging $1,100. These prices are for photo-realistic output, and four images/views. Architects are going to want to an actual number, not $__ per hour. My overall plan is to be cheap enough to keep them coming to me rather than investing in-house on people and equipment, yet higher priced and higher quality than hand rendering. 3DS has a rep for its steep learning curve, and I use that to my advantage. I also tell them how much $ it costs for a setup like mine. Also, most architects I've met have had a hard time with 3D work in ACAD, and are especially disgusted with the graphic output they've been getting. They have little desire to learn a new approach (3DS), and can't justify the weeks (months) of "lost" productivity to learn 3DS. Good for us! You're out West, right? Oregon? Paul D. Sanford [LEVEL 5]