yes it would be great and then put viewcube in it and then merge it with maya finally of course there is no point keeping very much same application when u have a powerfull application like maya under the hud sorry guys ...

yes i agree but xsi is very powerful and far more easy to use the interface is very clean and modeling tools are far powerful then maya now i am not saying maya interface is bad it jus not very innovative and flexible and all these so many training dvd from gnommon but still it is hard to unlike 3ds max you just start and end up with a great image or softimage is quite fun once have the basic

Maya and Softimage are quite different "under the hood". The architecture of SI is a modern extensable architecture that is easily modified--it is an object oriented architecture while Maya's architecture is of the generation of SI3D, which is to say pre-XSI--last century. Since Maya was owned by SGI and SGI was losing money big time, SGI radically lowered the price of Maya instead of investing in an expensive rewrite. That was a very good business decision as XSI 1.o was a disaster, Softimage had to give and support their old app, SI3D, away with every purchase of XSI through version 3.0.

Anyway, sorry jabrabaig, Softimage 2010 is far superiour under the hood. I have both Maya 2010 and Soft 2010 and training in both. Softimage's arhcitecture makes it much more intuitive. SI's GUI is cleaner, easier to use and easier to learn.