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Daniel, an addendum to Steven's reply: if you select several faces and set their attributes, you can give different attributes to different faces, sure. But those settings are fragile: if you ever change the attributes for the whole object, (i.e. enter Attributes while in Pick Objects or Pick Groups rather than Pick Faces), *** ALL *** faces will receive the new object attributes. I prefer using Pick Faces followed by Make Subgroup to create named groups of faces. After setting attributes for each group of faces, but before clicking on OK, I can save the subgroup attributes. Then, if I ever wipe out all my custom attributes with one careless object-wide attribute change, I can reload each attribute to the proper subgroup. Named subgroups are one of those essential Imagine functions. By the way, Imagine 2.9's Spline Editor allows you to import a Postscript font and create an extruded, bevelled, perfect 3-D logo! Even better, the resulting Imagine object has predefined face subgroups like "Front bevel" and "Back faces". Perfect! Many kudos to Impulse for such a complete implementation. Blaq!