thank you arran and Chirone. I m not going to master on maya i just need a model of a 3d aircraft which i can implement in java my need: set of all voxel with its color information in a file it may be a text file. thats it in the 2nd pass if this voxel file is classified with color information like: (0,0,0)//color information (20,30,20)//voxel (33,18,2)//voxel (12,13,22)//color (33,44,55)//voxel ..... i need only surface information, what should i do? is it easy to import a maya model in java? can i model such things with my free lerning edition?