I'd be interested in your experiences with Silo, Doc. I'm a little leery of putting money in another program at moment, tho, having been caught in the Hexagon fiasco. For the nonce I'm putting up with Carrara...but I too have little interest in Carrara 6. Pity; I've been with the base program since Ray Dream 3d. But unless I see some strong indication that they are listening to modelers and actually beta-testing before release, I am not going to be a sucker for them again.