I think Eovia has injected some renewed enthusiasm in the 3D marketplace with C5Pro. I've owned Carrara 2 through 5, and even had RDS -- which I thought was a clunk -- was using trueSpace at the time. C2 - C4 were just ok to me; however, I think Eovia really hit a home run with C5Pro. It has its limitation, but so does any 3D software. What Carrara5 Pro brings to the table is easy accessibility to its very good 3D tools. There are certainly more powerful tools out there -- for 5 times the cost, but about 20% more real capability. I don't want to sound like some Eovia promoter, but I've been pushing this beta for over 3 weeks, and have yet to have it crash! I've dumped it on purpose when I overdid some operation, and didn't think it was worth waiting for an hour to see the results, but its never crashed. Good, solid code and that says something by itself beyond new features!