Interesting. I'm working on something for her in Max right now, and I don't have that problem. I've noticed that sometimes, when copyright holder data is inserted in the .obj file, that some apps have problems reading them, btw And yes - you said original object file, and I'm sorry - I didnt see that. I couldn't read the original in Compose either, so I took the original object file, opened it in UVMapper, saved it to a different location, and now Compose can open it. ~S