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>> different faces on different layers.. get it? Craig, I'm STARTING <g> to understand what your concerns are. I guess I may be falling into the trap of knowing too much about my own product and not communicating properly. The joining and aligning commands are separate command and thus if you have "one item" and want tha item on different layers, "I would" probably approach the problem in the following manner. First – I would join the entire model with then align the "part" thus ensuring that the normals are consistent to describe this part. Second – I would expode the part and then join the "sections" of the part that reside on the same layer and that are contiguous. Third – I would then change the layer defiintions appropriately. In this manner I believe you will have all that was asked for (even though I don't remember the originator of this thread requesting faces on the same part existing on differnt layers). By joining and aligning the entire part first and then exploding, you are ensured that subsequent joined "sections" have consistent normal definitions. Ang