This can be done in Wings3D in few minutes and just export it to Vue as 3ds( if I understand you correctly of course).

Thanks guys. We will do just that and see what happens.I'll post an image later. If you think of anything else which would help, I am all ears. Many thanks again, Nick By the way, if you might need the model, post your email and I will send it to you.

John12, As one of their first users and the very first user on Skeychup3D forum,at any time it would be a pleasure to email you a copy of my receipt for SU. As a matter of fact, I would urge to to call the SU people and please talk either to Brad or Tom or Bryce or Yasser or Sara or Jim or John or Brian( I think I am missing few more)and ask about me. The name is Nick Noakhtar and the company name is Noakhtar Design & Associates. Their telephone number is (303)245-8562. After you talked to them and verified that I have a registered software and satisfied your juvenile curiosity, I would expect an apology. I am sure you can be mature enough to oblige that. As far as the segmentation, if you are talking about the number of arcs which would make a circle and so forth, I should say that I already know about that. The question was since both files are 3ds format, how is it that they render differently. If there is another concern that I might not know about it or I might have missed in regards to segmentation, please advise, and maybe I should review some of the things again. Please, speak wisely

Hey Shari, yes we could increase the number of segments as much as we want but that makes the file size huge. I just did a default cylinder 3' in rad and 6' hi in SU and the file size was only around 9KB. Then i did another one the same size, but with 200 segments and the file size went up to 43KB. Almost 5 times more on a simple cylinder. Just imagine if there are lots of curved objects in the scene. Of course Vue would not have any problem with that, I was just thinking about the way they render. Thanks again, Nick

Shoop, yes I do have the latest version and in sketchup it looks smooth when you make a cylinder and you can even do some tricks to get rid of lines and edged on topos, but when you export the model as 3ds and load it in Vue, the edges/facets still show. With the previous version, I used to get a lot of triangulation( still in version 3 when you look at the model in wireframe mode. Wabe, thanks for the additional explanation. I guess that might be the case. Calls for more messing about with Vue. Thanks guys, Nick

Shoop, yes I do have the latest version and in sketchup it looks smooth when you make a cylinder and you can even do some tricks to get rid of lines and edged on topos, but when you export the model as 3ds and load it in view, the edges/facets still show. With the previous version, I used to get a lot of triangulation( still in version 3 when you look at the model in wireframe mode. Wabe, thanks for the additional explanation. I guess that might be the case. Calls for more messing about with Vue. Thanks guys, Nick

Thanks much. I will give it a try.

I can understand that of course. So that means even though they can be exported in a same format as in 3DS, but their diff tech. make one smooth and the other faceted when rendered?! I just modeled a Cylinder in Form.Z and saved it in 3DS and loaded it in Vue. It is also smooth when rendered and it was created the same way as the Sketchup model. First the circle and then extruding in z direction. I will have to do few more tests. Wings3D is a polygonal mesh modeler as this reads on their website: , so got to do more research. Thank you guys again.

Hey thanks. I'll be DLing them soon.

Where in the backroom Tut is it? Could not find it. Would highly appreciate a link. TIA, Nick

The tutorial look is really good quality, however I had a hard time hearing your voice, and I had the volume all the way up. These tuts are great and thank you so much for taking the time. By the way , did you use Camtesia for capturing the tut? Or what is the software you used? Is there a way to get the sound higher in these tuts? Many thanks again, Nick

Thank you both. I will try that right away.

Yes. Is this the only thing I need to do? So when I want to load an object again, it will show the thumbnails of my vehicles collection? Nick