Hi all,
I have created a vc model of an artefact I made some time back, but never kept a spare sample for myself.
When finished, I was a little disappointed with the screen view. Basically I drew a truncated cone, then I created a series of rh & lh helices on the surface, then I made grooves along these helices by using the one rail sweep solid tool, with a small square shape, and boolean subtracting them. A look at the pics should make this clear (I hope!).
The problem is that I see extra stuff along the mid-line of the grooves, like a thin, narrow tape, stopping at the edge of each groove, but with a small area of ditto at the intersection of each groove.
I don't pretend to know if this is a bug or not, but I would like to know if anyone can help me get rid of it. If I select it, I get the entire solid.
All suggestions welcome!
Regards, Ian.

I can't add the .vc3 file, even though its only 3.2MB!? Again, any suggestions?

...and why does one image arrive opened, and the other as a link????

Are the vestigial elements part of the object, ie do they highlight when you select it? If they are, convert the object to surfaces, delete the artefacts (the unwanted bits, not the object!), then marquee select the rest and stitch to solid.

From memory, there's a maximum pixel x pixel size for the embedded picture and attendant thumbnail. I thought about nailing it down and working out how to get a nice-sized thumbnail, and an appropriate embedded one, but then I remembered that I'm not that anal and by then my abbreviated attention span had moved on to something more interesting!