When I create an object in Amapi 7 it looks smooth. When I export the object to Carrara 3 it looks rough. I want it to remain smooth. Any suggestions? (please see example) datastorm

How are you moving it to Carrara? Try this: Flatten all the DG and resave the file to a new name as an Amapi Pro "a3p" file. Bring it into Carrara 3 using the "Open" command. Should be smooth mdc

If you're exporting as a Carrara file, there are significant changes I've had to make to the export options to get smooth results but it CAN be done with wonderful results. Let us know how you're exporting it. -Kix

-Kix

datastorm - Thanks for the help mdc and kix. I am exporting by just using "save as" or "export" to a ".car" file. Is there another step that I should be doing?

I've been converting my Amapi 7 objects to 3 and 4-sided polygon models first before exporting them as OBJ files for Carrara to import.

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This may not be any help because I've been using Amapi Pro instead V7 and have forgotten if V7 has this tool. Apologies if it doesn't help... :(

MDC's way works for sure. The way I indicate below can be done while preserving the DG - no need to collapse it.

Here is how I fix that in A7pro: With your DG object selected, click the Tesselation tool which presents you with the tool bar shown above. Then click where the mouse is shown. You'll be presented with the info window which shows the Max Angle as 20 degrees. I change it to 10 which makes all of the DG smooth when importing directly into Carrara as an Amapi file.

I export from Amapi as a .car file. I'm a nurbs only man (and a beginner so I may change someday). I simply export as a .car file but you can set how any model is exported in the tesselation export option. Here are the export options I use. Again, like Mark, I'm amapi pro and I can't remember what designer was like for this. -Kix

-Kix