Standard Boolean operations speed the shaping of complex surfaces. You can use sophisticated transformation operations such as twisting and skinning to twist, bulge, and bend objects into nonsymmetrical shapes. Other sophisticated operations available include resize, stretch, extrude, sweep, lathe, unfold, and project. Modeling aids include terrain models, doubleline wall objects, staircases, screws, and helixes. It supports walkthrough animations and QuickTime VR movies.
More sophisticated animations require an outside program.
The user interface is well thought-out, easy to use, and fully customizable. The major differences occur in the degree of rendering sophistication. By adding the RadioZity package, extremely realistic radiosity effects are possible. More than twenty supported formats allow easy communication of your model with other programs. Even more experienced users will find the exemplary Help system useful.