financial difficulties= thats right and the only reason,most companys are using maya,lightwave and max. I have lightwave but for modeling it is a pain in the a..,you know what i mean,there is no better and faster modeling app on the market then amapi designer and pro(you just have to know how to handle it,then you will have no probs),it has some bugs but you will also have some bugs in maya and softimage xsi or whatever. if you want to buy softimage foundation then why are you bothering the carrara forum.