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I have been following the mail you have been forwarding on the discussions Paul and John have been having on the problems with doing the 3DS exports from R13 C3 to 3D studio. I have had a problem since the C3 patch came out, I am not sure if it is the same problem or the same type of problem but I thought I would share it with them. I had done a change to an existing model done before the patch and already 3DSed out successfully at that time. I went to 3dsout the same solids I had done before and found that either my machine would crash or there would be nothing in the 3DS file when it was done. I ran an audit on the drawing because I thought it may have been corrupted, but there was no errors. Next I did a check by creating a simple solid and attempting that, again the same thing happened. I then Wblocked out the solids and went into the Wblock and tried again, the same thing happened. Next I did a Wblock of the solids, opened a new drawing with no prototype and inserted the block in. I purged the drawing and tried again and this time it worked. The odd thing is that this doesn't seem to happen on all of the models I do, but it does on the complex ones, (the ones I have had the problems with have been over 2000 faces), most of the simple ones are fine. Like I said, I am not sure this is the same problem but I thought it might help or at least be of interest to you. Perry Moscrip