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Michele: VL allows you to set up cameras, lights, materials, smoothing, and mapping coordinates in your AutoCAD drawing and then write a 3ds file directly. While I'm not yet a VL expert, I don't think that any heirarchy other than what constitutes an object made up of elements is translated. I.E., no animation related stuff… There is no appreciable benefit other than a direct link between AutoCAD and 3DS and that AutoCAD users can set up their drawings to be sent off to some 3DS hack like yourself to get an animation made <grin>. The use of mapping coordinates are still difficult for architectural modeling, although I am more comfortable getting them in the exact location that I want in AutoCAD than I am in 3DS. VL does exactly what its name implies… and for an office of AutoCAD users with one 3DS whiz in it, it is a great tool with alot of utility. It also helps get non 3DS users to understand how they need to build a model in AutoCAD for appropriate use in 3DS. C#