wow! i haven't read your last reply, before i posted. that's a really detailed explanation!
can't thank you enough!

ok, that gets me closer...but i dont quite get it.

- when displaying soft/hard edges it is true, the soft edges are dashed (nearly all of them, just not those that were the edges between two...

if that just affects the way it is displayed in the viewport and i can change it at any time, then i can live with it...it just makes me feel insecure, i always think it has to do something with the...

thats exactly the problem, i'm sure it doesnt, because i switch back and forth between 1 and 3 to check the surfaces. and some of the edges do appear hard, as they should...if i press 3, it gets even...

thanks for your reply!

the model is for design visualisation purposes... the next step would be to insert edge-loops to the edges that should remain tight. the problem is, that the viewport doesnt...

hi guys,

i have a problem: i'm modelling a car at the moment, i built the rough surfaces in nurbs and then converted them to polys. sometimes a strange thing happens: after i combine two patches...