hmm, you mean eovia actually listened to people like me complaining about the garbage interface with amapi? though this one looks like daz studio. can you resize those panels without minimising them? or, better yet, edit the contents of the panels? to rip those particular tools you never use out and combine those you do to get rid of space wasters? ( other than the custom panel I mean ) can you get a professional default 4 pane view? ( left / right, top, front & perspective ) single pane view is bogus, means you have 1/4 the control over objects. ask them why they kill the menu in the max workspace setting. the menubar would be usefull for those that haven't memorised the keyboard shorcuts. though the screenshots do make me happier with amapi, they got rid of the metacreations interface. ( bryce, poser .... ) big useless goopy buttons instead of small compact sharply defined buttons, that's the metacreations crappy interface. look at bryce's tools for positioning objects in a scene, useless. the materials room with bryce is worse. ( the materials code to create the materials can make some great stuff, the interface of the room sucks ) I stopped using a lot of apps when the demo versions died because the interface was lousy. ( amapi, bryce, poser. ) others the premise for the modelling method doesn't work for me. ( blender, wings, anim8tor ... ) others I just won't use because that would mean having to buy winders. ( max. ) as much as I like the app, I hate winders. buying an os for one app ain't worth it. gonna be testing something with max trial though, see if I can get it to work in crossover office. ( since decompiling would be illegal to make a version to run in linux. )