@cameleyes said: Hey TIG, Many thanks for your help - that was the issue - a case sensitive HD. Not sure why that happened but probably my fault. Anyhow I've re-formatted drive and redistilled everything over the weekend and all working fine now. Many thanks for your help. Much appreciated. ugh.. good thing you caught onto it now (the HD was still basically fresh).. but yeah, always use the default formatting options with OSX unless you deliberately want to (and know the reasoning behind) make a case sensitive drive..

Hi folks. If you triple click to select all gometries, the edges of the top and the bottom will also be smoothed which migth not be the final effect that is wanted. A quick way of selecting only the vertical edges to be softened is as follow: 1 - Use a view that shows the object mostly from its side (a front, back, left or right view is even better. 2 - Do a right to left window select and avoid selecting any of the top and bottom edges. Another one: 1 - Triple click to select all edges and faces (the softening engine will ignore the faces then, do not worry). 2 - Double click on the top while pressing the SHIFT key to Add/Subtract from the selection. The top will be deselected with its edges. 3 - Repeat step 2 for the bottom. Just ideas.

Hey Brodie/Gaieus, Thats really useful. Problem solved. Your help and images are much appreciated. Matt