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Although I wish this was a bug, I don't think it is. This event permeates throughout the various stages of NURBS design including surfaces. My theory. I think this is the way Vectorworks intentionally handles NURBS so that hybrid tools like EAP will work. Just a guess.

@cberg I don't recall it being any other way. I am assuming this is a way to speed things up internally for Vectorworks. it never really affects what I am doing so I have never paid much attention to it. I do know that more points in the bend can help, but still never gets away from the "series of straight" line effect.

@canthony Below is a picture of an aged beam. It has a lot of long striations. The picture below that is done in VW's, Rendered in C4D. The long striations are geometry. I added the texture for clarity. I would have to reconfigure this for printing as there is not thickness, etc.

Although at first look, many objects or surfaces appear to be beyond Vectorworks, but that is largely because the techniques are unknown. I was looking at a beam of aged wood online and pretty sure I "wood" model it in Vectorworks. What you are interested in might not.....don't know. Again, post of picture of what you are interested in and we can play with it.

Aged timber is a broad term. Some versions might be easy or possible in Vectorworks, where others not. If you can, post a picture of what you are interested in.

If you can, post the file.

Still, very nice modelling. I do use Deform tools, but in CINEMA 4D. In his case, I can clearly see it would be the best approach in Vectorworks.

@shorter That is a very elegant looking model. I never use bend tools, so always curious. Did you bend the individual elements of the lattice or make it as a complete flat model and then bend the model 90 degrees.

@NoodlesTTravelling for the last few days and today. Your first post was to create bends that were correct. There are many ways to do this, but methodology changes as the model gets more complex. Was the model is sent you the type of thing you wanted to do? I built it quickly before I left on this trip, so not to scale. If so, where do you want to go from there? This is a critical question? Also, who or what is Sophia I am sure she is a nice girl.😀 If you are sending VW geometry to a machining program, it may need to be exported as an IGES file.

I put it back to 2023SHEET METAL v2023.vwx

@NoodlesT HI Noodles. Having bent some sheet metal over half a century ago, I remember some of the manufacturing problems. Is this something like what you are trying to do? This is not to your scale, just a mock up. SHEET METAL.vwxSHEET METAL.vwx

@NoodlesT Are you trying to apply bends to the Sketchup model, or a model you created? If it is a Vectorworks model, I would do the following 1 Build the model as a surface model, no thickness. Using the NURBS tool palette or 3D tool palette ``2 Shell the object to the desired thickness ``3 Use the Fillet tool (3D NURBS tools) and apply an inner and outer radius.

Redshift is now the default, but may not suit all needs. The point was, an exact same render in two different programs without tweaking. Below is Redshift on this model, but I could not recreate the exact same scene without tweaking.

There has been a lot of discussion on external renderers. I am involved in a project where A-CAD, Soft Plan, Revit, Enscape are the installed software, so I have had a chance to see Enscape and I can see why it is so popular. To this end, I decided to upgrade C4D from 2020 to 2025, big change. Did a little testing. Below is a Vectorworks model rendered in VW's and then sent directly to CINEMA 4D. Without any tweaks, it renders exactly as Vectorworks. Now it is a few hundred (subscription) more than Enscape, but that $200 buys everything you could want.

That is so cool. I put it into a perspective mode and turned it a few degrees and my eye still sees the "wonky". I wonder if anyone ever made a real wall like that.