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Here is the second half of the Rendering Software Poll. If I've left out anything that you think should be included, please let me know.

Here's Part #1: http://forum.datacad.com/viewtopic.php?t=8119
Here's Part #3: http://forum.datacad.com/viewtopic.php?t=8126
Here's Part #4: http://forum.datacad.com/viewtopic.php?t=8127

Michael,

After looking at your first post, I was wondering how you could forget Vue. Now I see that you have them in alphabetical order. Phew!

As you know from other posts, I too am a convert to Vue 6 Infinite. I've looked at, used and trialed some of the others over the years (Artlantis, Blender, Cinema 4D, o2c Interactive, SketchUp, Truespace, Visual Reality, and the rendering programs that came with DataCAD 5 thru DataCAD 9 and DataCAD Plus-Arcon), and Vue is the best for me partly because it is more than just a rendering program, it is relatively inexpensive and it is very versatile.

I think that Kerkythea is a great rendering program and you can't beat the price, but that's all it is. When I switched to Vue, I was ready for a program that did a little more, especially in the "plant" area.

ticomccr wrote:After looking at your first post, I was wondering how you could forget Vue.

I wanted to include them all in a single post, but I wasn't allowed to have that many options. After all of the discussions during the past few months about rendering programs I thought that it would be interesting to see which programs are most used by DataCAD users.

Michael:

You might add...

Realsoft 3D
http://www.realsoft.fi

Electric Image
http://www.eitechnologygroup.com

Shade
http://my.smithmicro.com/win/shade/index.html

Deep Paint 3D
http://www.righthemisphere.com/products ... index.html

Maxwell Render
http://www.maxwellrender.com/

NuGraf
http://www.okino.com/nrs/nrs.htm

GAMMA-RAY
http://www.gamma-ray.de/html/welcome.html

POV-Ray
http://www.povray.org/

Rhino/Flamingo/Penguin
http://www.rhino3d.com/index.htm

form·Z
http://www.formz.com/

Carrara
http://www.daz3d.com

Strata
http://www.strata.com/

Softimage
http://www.softimage.com/

Cinema 4D
http://www.maxon.net

Fusion
http://www.eyeonline.com

Houdini
http://www.sidefx.com/

solidThinking
http://www.solidthinking.com

Albatross3D (formerly ppModeler)
http://www.ppmodeler.com

MOI
http://moi3d.com

Thanks, Mark! Looks like I'll need to include a poll #3

You might want to add Autodesk Viz which is/was a subset of of 3d Studio specifically geared to architectural modeling and rendering. It was also quite a bit less expensive than Max. My understanding is that Viz is no longer offered. I stopped upgrading at Viz 4 but still use is as my final rendering solution. I use O2C for preliminary presentations and save Viz for final presentations.