that's possible. But 233mhz doesn't help either. And I have 64 megs, so I know how hard that is. That's still weird to me. What you might want to try is, instead of making cables in rhino (which I wish I could figure out) or MAX, try creating cables by using symmetrical lattices. Just takes a bit of practice and texturing, but it can be done. If you look at my picture Haight Ashbury 1968, you can see behind the stereo equipment that I made wires out of lattices. The trick is to draw your cable design in grayscale in an art program going at leasat 500 by 500, smooth it by using gaussian blur, set your resolution in the E lattice editor to like 510, click new/from picture to import your grayscale, then take some time to lower and smooth it until you get the roundness you want. Using lattice cables will take up much less memory space and should let you render the scene the way you want.

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