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More precisely, no sub-object can have more than 65,535 points or faces. Most objects hit the point limit before the face limit, although it's perfectly possible for a malformed 3DS file to have 64K points but only one face. I wonder about the limits within the DXF import within 3DS and the standalone DXF3DS converter… do they, too, use only 16-bit values for counting points and faces while assembling data that must conform to 3DS geometry limits? I suspect that they must use 32-bit values, since it's quite easy for a model to have an excess of points before merging.