You have a misunderstanding here. If your'e a full time student, you are eligible
for the educational buy. I cite:
"The single-user educational license at $195 is for
                                students, faculty, and schools. It is the complete
                                commercial product and license with a special
                                educational price. Students and educators are
                                encouraged to use Rhino commercially. A single-user
                                license includes: a CD, a 550-page 4-color user's
                                guide, and a mouse pad. "
Check out http://www.rhino3d.com/
. If you find any modeler with the same wealth of features and ease of handling
for this price, you can have my copy.
Not that there would need to be a mentioning of any other prog, but I did check
geometique yesterday, and though I like the approach, even towards the user,
it's a snail. Rhino is bloody fast too. I run a celeron 500 with no special graphics

card (millenium 1!, 2mb) and sometimes HANDLE polygons with +300k. If I'd try
that with geometique, I really could have a cup of coffee before it would turn
around once.
Check also out the ng, server mcneel (204.177.179.20), name is rhino.
If you buy, you can download the current beta, that has OpenGL support and
extensive surface curvature analysis tools, like mirroring etc.
The support and response with the ng is second to none, except, ok, Moray and
POV where probably the only predecessors of apps that underwent a similar
history shaped by their users. Rhino had a 2 year open beta before they sold the
first copy! Can you believe that? Ok, ok, all brakes on. Rhino rulz!

steff

Alex Magidow wrote:

> Actually, my price range, being a full time high school student with no income
> save allowances, $700 is a bit out of my price range. Even teh discount version,
> at $400 is a bit high.
> I was thinking either Geometique or AC3D or Elasticity.
>
> smb wrote:
>
> > Alex Magidow wrote:
> >
> > > A POV/Moray export to .raw!!!!I CAN SEE THE LIGHT!!!YAYAAYAYAYAYAYA!!!!!
> > >
> > > Now, just to find some good programs for importing those formats...
> > >
> >
> > How about Rhino?
> > <g>
> >
> > steff
> >
> > > Cristian Ramirez wrote:
> > >
> > > > I am exporting some of my Moray 3.1 works to *.raw and then *.3ds thanks
> > > > to the export feature of the standalone version of Polyray (1.8a).
> > > > Could you implement this feature (without changing every texture name :)
> > > > in the plug-in?
> > > >
> > > > Thanks in advance
> > > >
> > > > --
> > > > +--------------------------------+
> > > > |        Cristian Ramirez        |
> > > > | mailto:ram### [at] entelchilenet |
> > > > |                                |
> > > > |    Traslavina 352 Dept. 205    |
> > > > |          Vina del Mar          |
> > > > |             CHILE              |
> > > > +--------------------------------+
> > >
> > > --
> > > Given a lever long enough, one can move the world with little force
> > >       MJ Engh
>
> --
> Given a lever long enough, one can move the world with little force
>       MJ Engh

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