Roach
THX for taking the time to list those features but STILL I think this is not a worthwhile upgrade for many people like me who want more modeling power - I for one , do not do animation and I have Maya Complete so hair Fur and such - mean nothing to me , but Alias will force me to upgrade in the next release (7).
Only modeling tool Alias has added is the polygon mirror cut feature that looks like a programmer's excersize more than a real life usefull tool.
If you look at the digication website you'll see many needed tools ideas that are much simpler to program but Alias declines to add them.
I already have Mental ray in my Maya 4.5 so why bother ?
Maya has the potential to take over 3DMAX 6 in the architecture modeling area by simply improving on not many features but it seems that they don't want it so badly.
GRRRR.....