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I want to morph a flat object to a bent object. To make it easy I tried a simple rectangle. I tessalated it 4 or 5 times with the default settings. Then copied the object. Now the problems. I tried to select the front and back sides of the rectangle before bending the copy and smoothed these faces previous to the bend. I now bent the object to 180 degrees. Problem number one it didn't seem to matter how many times I tessalated the rectangle there always seemed to be stray faces that didn't fit the contour. Problem number 2. On the copy object, once bent, I couldn't seem to get a smooth surface on the selected faces that had been previously smoothed. I tried various versions of the above with basically the same outcome. My purpose was to morph the flat object to the bent object resulting in smooth faces in the morph. I realize that one of the options of morph is for smoothing but I could render the bent object by itself to get a smooth appearance. The object was actually supposed to be the outline of an eagle with spread wings lofted on a straight line but the rectangle gives the same simplified problem. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Jerry