Yeah ZB seems like the big daddy, but I'm sure I would have a hard time using it. Demoing 3dcoat right now. Both apps do the type of modeling I'm after, but for me it will be the STL output (Too bad NURBS cant do this). Mostly I was wrong in the begining. Most artists seem to want to "decimate" and lower the polycount. I need to have as smooth of a surface as I can get physically. Fooling around with setting the resolutions of the model and the output right now...

Seems like for the CNC work, I wont be trying to bring my CAD model entirely into 3dcoat and working, it just degrades too much stuff with no options. Probably use it to create surfaces that I can toolpath in place of some finish passes on my CAD data, to get organic stuff cut in "particular areas"...

We'll see.