Well, it works pretty darn well for what I do and will be buying a license.

I talked with Simlab support and they will be adding alpha support for rendered images

He is a simple doodle from way back that was exported from MOI with quads & tris and vertices welded which is how I export everything for 3d pdf's I make and animate. Since I use Acrobat 3d v.8 the pdf side of it does not help but it is a cheap way to output 3d pdfs to be sure if you don't have that capability.

Big Weld rendered 800x800 in three minutes. The silver around the nose is a bump map for the texturing and not splintering. Just for fun I started the same render with setting for 4000x400 and off it went with no hiccups, I didn't let it finish as I am off to bed...