Mark- Thanks for the reply. It sounds like it works pretty well.
The video that Autodesk sent me looked like it was targeted at
manufacturing companies, so there was just a brief blurb on the tape
about exporting to 3DS. I had never heard of it (seems like there is
a product by the same name from Schrieber Inst.) so I didn't know if
it was available seperatly or not. The tape only mentioned it as
part of the package you talked about. I'll keep my eyes open. I'm
always looking for was to optimize my modeling time. r3 with its
network rendering pretty much eliminated the rendering time question.
Any ideas on a time frame for its release? If it's too long, those
features may be part of r4 (which I'm sure Gary and the gang don't
even want to think about right now).
Thanks again for the info.