I did find a video on You Tube (back about 2 months) ago dealing with using the verts to create dynamic chainmail. Basically the guy created a small metal ring, and then somehow converted all the verts of the chainmail model into copies of the ring. (Not sure but perhaps this is where the ngon is used?) He then resized all of the rings enmass until they looked like they were all interlocked. His version of the process included animation with real world physics. Like hedd, I don't have very much computing power, so I will not be trying it for fear of a crash. 

As for running Blender from anywhere, I remember an earlier posting in another Blender thread that pointed that out. I like having my latest version installed for quick access, but I'll run the earlier version from the extracted zip file on my external. My only reason for doing this is because I have a few unfinished .blend files that I am working on in 2.63. When they are completed, (they are just modeling jobs), I'll export them in.obj format for use in my other applications. After that I'll probably delete the earlier version and use the new version for model creation and the other great features that are now available.

Thanks friends for all the advice. I'll look in on my YouTube channel and see if I can find that url and post it here for the above mentioned video. Perhaps it will help somebody. As for me, the modeling project is well above my skill level for now, and I will probably need to have a lot more processing power.

Stay awesome!

Agent 0013.

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