Hi,

Am looking to start teaching myself another program for building more organic / double-curvy forms, but there are a lot to choose from... So far have used SW surfaces, but it's slow.

I want something divergent from SW, to do the things SW won't do quickly / easily - so maybe that means NURBS and / or not parametric?

The programs I see referred to most often are:

AutoCAD, Maxon C4D and 3dStudioMax

Second to those are:

Rhino, Vectorworks, Maya and Creo/Pro-E

Least often are:

Inventor, Catia, A-V Cobalt, Blender, SharkFX, Modo, Z-Brush, Houdini.

Still need to use SW so communicable files with SW would be nice, but that seems unlikely.

Any thoughts please?

Many thanks!

D