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>>I originally used 16 sided tubes but when I tried to make a union of two >>intersecting tubes (to make tunnel that you could turn left or right), I >>found that 3DS crashed from the operation. I don't know if you've got AutoCAD, but let me recommend AME (Advanced Modeling Extentions) to you. AME is an ADS application that runs in ACAD for doing "solid modeling". I have found that for certain things — booleans especially — that AME is invaluable. The advantage is that you work with the primitives BEFORE the mesh is applied to them, so you don't have to worry about tesselating faces and whatnot. AME's got some problems, and you DO have to worry about the sequence in which you do some union/subtract bools, but it's really saved me some time in the past. Dave