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PMJI, but this would be a simple problem in a couple ways. The "classic" way would be to have the position of the balls center points output to an ASCII file and write a LISP program to convert them into an ACAD drawing (assuming you also have ACAD). At that point, you can do global search and replaces for the dummy elements for what ever type and resolution you are looking for (if you know AutoLISP, both of these would be pretty simple programs). Next, DXF into 3DS. The 2nd method is less clear to me since I am not familiar enough with this new feature in 3DSr3. I believe you can use simplistic geometry as "dummy" objects and have them replaced _only_during_rendering_time by the more complex parts. Therefore, you could follow the same proceedure as before, but place a simple box, or even more simplistic shape, and then go into 3DSr3. Then tell the system to replace those objects with the spheres in 3DS. I am not familiar with this new function to be sure that this will work, but my understanding is that it will.