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>hello again,
>thanks for all of the suggestions concerning my banner object, as i have said
>before, this mailing list is a much better source of information than any
>book or magazine.  however, i left out an important detail about the letters
>for the banner slogan, they are not uniform width but they need to be
>rounded over. i have tried bevels with smoothing but certain areas of the
>letters (such as 'D') result in a sharp edge that forms a plateau. i have tried
>different bevel combinations, various max smooth angle settings, and i am
>now trying rail extrusion with a half-circle poly. am i making this harder
>than it has to be. any help would again be appreciated.  the banner itself
>looks great, however. thanks.

Have you tried the Logotron macro which comes with LW ver 3.0 (or 3.1) ? It
does all the beveling automatically and correctly.