Hi FV, Well you can have different display settings as you know. I usually set mine to "wireframe" and all the orthagonal view ports show the objects in wireframe except the lower right view port whcih displays the rendered image. Somehow as I mentioned it worked fine in v4.x, but in V5i is acting a bit strange. Yes I tried setting all to default, but no go. Are we the only ones having this problem? It is just puzzeling me how you can move your camera around or inside your imported model if in wireframe mode your imported object does not display( while camera is selected of course)in the default black color! I recently got a super computer and my video card is the top of the line Nvidia Quadro FX 4500 and when you press the test button for the video card it says that is is working well. So I have no idea what is going on. Trial and error i guess would be the call of the day. If anyone know please help. Thanks, Nick