Thanks for the time whkguamusa and trav. I am goin to spend some time over the weekend getting to grips with meshing and exporting. whkguamusa, I mostly do aircraft at the moment and I find taht although they give big files, the Rhino simple settings work best, although I do mesh seperate bits at different settings, depending on their shape. With wings in particular I find the advanced settings not to good. To keep the leading edge smooth you need to reduce the max edge length so much that you get a hyper dense mesh in the relativly flat bits and the file size gets huge. It the single thing that Rhino people seem to hate the most, meshing and exporting. trav, thanks for the offer, but I think I'll spare you the trauma :) I can open a Rhino nurb file in Carrara 4 pro. I am going to see how the file size works out if I do this and export the mesh out of Carrara before I map it. I'll let you all know how I get on.

Brian

Fortitudine Vincimus - "by endurance we conquer."