thanks very much for the tip Trav. that was very helpful! =) about the zoom.....heres a weird thing that always happens to me....after i click once or twice to zoom in from 100%, what happens is the zoom goes straight through something like 10,000% or some thing that's sooooo zoomed in it goes to scientific notation like 2.34 E+5 or something like that.......weird....and i got the patch for 2.0... is there any other modeler thats as powerful (or more) as Carrara AND as user friendly? i really want C3...especialy with Transposer out. thanks for the input you guys gave me! =)