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Michael: Autodesk just answered the AME situation over on the AutoCAD forum. They stated that they 'will continue to support the product'. This is the same thing that they said about AEC. What is really amounts to, in between the lines, is that there will be a reasonably priced upgrade path from AME to the new modeler and that the new modeler will be able to read AME files (via conversion, or whatever…). Now, I, for one, will not mourn the disappearance of AME. I didn't consider the 'reasonable path' upgrade from AEC to ASG's version reasonable, however. At least in the case of AME Autodesk controls both the source and the solution. You can build closed volumes in AutoCAD and then detach the faces after they have been imported into 3DS to provide access to independent mapping. There is also, I think, box.ixp which will map the different faces independantly. These issues really are the least of your worries, IMHO. Try mapping a scaled, modular material onto a curved surface… now there's a challenge… especially if you want the map to align with the map on an intersecting flat surface. C#