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>>If I remember right, you wrote an automatic block explosion program years ago, didn't you?<< You remember better than I do. I probably *did* write one, but I wrote a new one just for this occassion, mainly because I didn't remember writing the first one. It seems I have a WORN i/o memory system in my head. You may not be familiar w/ WORN technology: that's "Write Once Read Never". The acronym is very appropriate. Seriously, I did write a routine to recursively explode *all* "INSERT"s and then write the contents of each layer out to individual .3ds files. This technique overcomes both the "nested block" problem *and* the "number of objects" problem. I don't know if you've run into the "3dsout database error" message due to exporting too many objects at one time, but I've seen it more that I care to. Joe