kaom, This is exciting news for me I was able to use my old IMSI TurboCad 4 in conjunction with Corel Draw 8 to get this to work at least in one view. I don't know if it will be the solution for this particular type of modeling, nonetheless it is encouraging! Here's what I did: 1) in TCW40 I used File : Trace : browse to find my bmp (one view) file (call it LAMX.BMP.) 2) press trace 3) edit:select all 4) save as LAMX.DFX 5) minimize TCW40 6) in Corel Draw 7) File:Open:LAMX.DFX 8) Select all objects 9) export as LAMX.BMP 10) minimize CD8 11) In Carrara insert spline object(section 1 should be selected automatically) 12) Import LAMX.AI. It seems to have worked well to here! whether I can find a way to combine the views as brainmuffin has done remains to be seen, but even if not it will provide me a use for that old cad program as I can think of a hundred other things I can do with sections now that I can import ais based on raster drawings. Thank you for your help. I still may end up using the layer tracing method for something. . . . BrainMuffin, I didn't mean to sidetrack your thread; the pure beauty of the model and the possibility of doing such things myself, was overwhelming as I've always thought such was possible but could not until now find the motivation to test my inferances. I thank you for the motivation - It isn't often that I get this excited about a graphics method anymore. I learned more about Turbocad, Corel Draw and Carrara 2 today than I have in a long time thanks to your posting of your amazing method of modeling. If I find out more about how to do this in C2 I'll post to a new thread. Again Thank You very much! - TJ