Perfecto,

Im a noob so I cant really comment BUT like you I find poly's more logical so to speak and easier to use. I get confused with nurbs...I guess being a Surveyor ALL of my work is based on points/traingles and line work...so nurbs really do my head in.

As for naming things...well at work we have come up with a system that everything has a layer and or a prefix, alpha or numeric. As Jay pointed out ( and yes he is spot on) the naming convention is personal BUT at least give it a good, clear description. Abbreviate if you want as long as some one else can read it if they have to.

I deal with Design files for real life roads/pipes etc etc and EVERY bloody time I get a DXF or DWG....it has a 100 layers!!! and some have exactly what Jay quoted...surface001 002 etc etc. In my world this is useless...I would call it LOT_205_DES_FSL (Lot 205, design-finished surface level)..get my drift?

So here is a quick gas pipe list when we do pickup...design is just 'GAS' water is 'WATER' etc

G20 20mm gas
G50 50mm gas
G110 110mm gas

and so on.

cheers bullet