Thanks, I made the quad and '9' check, but it didnt fix poser's problem. I will give increasing the # of polygons near the rounded corners a try it feels like it should help. I am relatively new to 3d-art (about a year's worth of not-so-serious dabbling up until now) but I had thought that making something like a street sign would be easy (well it is as long as i dont export it from max).. converting these files to other formats seems to add an extra bit of complications, eh? Again, thanks. Michael