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Hi Bruce, As you found, the Excel Export Option in Swivel only gives the position of objects in the World, and does not provide any information about the actual construction of the objects. The pathform info is stored only in the Swivel native file, in the resource fork of the file, in binary format….I do not know how to access this data in a meaningful way. (But I'm open to suggestions! 😉 ) However, if you want to just bring the overall shape of the object into a spreadsheet, instead of its cross-sectional pathform data, then there is a way to achieve this. If you export your data in RIB format, a text file will be produced which can be imported into Lotus 1-2-3 and also, I believe, Excel. Two tips would be to import it as space-delimited text (ie, each "space" character would mark a new column in the spreadsheet), and you might want to first open the RIB file in a text editor to delete the header and shader info. What you'll be left with is a series of rows, each row consisting of a series of XYZ triples that describes each polygon that makes up the object. This data can then be manipulated and brought back into Swivel via the PolyList option in the Swivel Command Script. This is a fascinating topic…what are you trying to accomplish? Regards, John Dowdell Macromedia Tech Support There is 1 Reply.