I started a little project the other day and quickly hit a snag. I'm trying to model a little stone box my wife has with a lattice work of holes in it. As you can see from the render, I used a texture map for the holes in the transparency channel. Unfortunately I forgot Carrara is a surface modeling program, not a solids modeling program.

Can anyone offer advice on a different way to tackle this object? I tried making the lattice portion a compound object in the spline modeler, but Carrara bogged down quickly with all those little holes - and I couldn't figure out how to wrap the shape into an oval.

Any advice will be appreciated.

• Jasen