I played around with Blender for some time, but I really can't stand its counterintuitive user interface. So I tried out
anim8or, although it wasn't made for what I want to do with it - some simple indoor level geometry to use it in the
Irrlicht Editor. I already used it to create the room.3ds file used in the Irrlicht examples, but this was years ago and it wasn't very complex either. After just a few minutes, I was able to create this:

Ok, these are just some boxes pushed together in most cases, but it was very easy to do. I think I'll stay a bit with anim8or, nice little tool.
i know its expensive but its industry standard where i come from (Los Angeles)
once you learn it and get over the intemedation that it can do anything (FFVII: Advent Children, Shrek, And every other 3d animated movie) then you learn and have the easiest best expeirence