Barry_Dyson wrote: You will get a lot of use from some free software named "GOM Inspect" from the www.gom.com website. GOM Inspect is excellent at handling massive STL files. It offers very many powerful utilities to edit and clean STL files and delivers the ability extract prismatic geometry such as planes, cylinders, cones, spheres, etc. All created geometry can be exported to IGES and imported into KeyCreator. You can extract single or multiple section curves as polylines. These can be converted to splines and then surfaces in KeyCreator. Once a CAD model is created you can import the SOLID or Surface model into GOM Inspect for validation against the original STL data and make professional reports on the results. This is an excellent Tool for KeyCreator users who wish to reverse engineer STL files into KeyCreator CAD models. Barry