I think your on to something here. :) The results were very interesting. But... What if p1 & p2 have different textures? I exported my house and imported it, it came in with one texture, the Redwood. Looked nice. :) But not quite what I wanted. By changing the propagatingScale I was able to parent most of the sections together, Roofs, Decks ect. but when parenting it all to say the 1st floor I got an error something about multiple somethings. Darn I should of written it down. My drum kit worked without exporting. It's 27 parented figures I can load it into any file flawlessly. The house... A different story. Basicaly I've been just starting with the house file adding figures & doing a save as. Don't worry about late chimes. I'm closer now. I can feel it. Thanks. Scott