litst, I tried what you said - the dialog box for inserting a sphere in the vertex modelel in Carrara 2 looks like the above (and it turns out triangulated) . . . another reason to upgrade when I can afford to.

In the meantime the cylinder method works and is less work than getting rid of the triangulation in inserting a sphere in C2 - so for the moment it looks like I'm stuck with that. (LOL)Fortunately, a perfect sphere is not required to do the job.

• TJ