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Chris: Was your large project imported to 3DS from a .dxf file? I've had most of the problems you have described with geometry created in a CADD package and then imported. You could mess around with welding vertices but you may try the opposite approach if you have rectilinear geometry – Detach Faces. I had faces flickering and these strange fading triangular voids which all became normal when I detached the faces (Your dark stripe may be similar to this). This leads me to believe that my problems were in the smoothing groups assigned and/or the weld threshold used during import. Detaching the faces was the fastest way to an answer but perhaps not the most elegant or efficient for rendering. Bob