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Hi Jonas, Perfect timing, I'm also having an (unexpected) boolean problem that you may can help with. I modeling a turbine type compressor. The main body looks something like an accordian. I created 32 pass tubes to go from one stage to the other and then boolean'd em all into the main body. No problem with the boolean operation, but now when rendered, it looks like it is in "Flat" shading mode. I applied mapping coordinates and the material again, same thing. I've tried changing from phong to metal, no change. I thought *maybe* I had exceeded some kind of face limit after the boolean, there are only 16K (and some change) faces in the object. If I try to tesselate, even at "1", it says object to large. I grabbed another object in the project and rendered it, and it looks fine. I *can* smooth it out with autosmooth or the IPAS smooth, but that then ruins the pass tubes. I am quite confused at this point, any thoughts? Thanks, Terry