Hi Keith, well that's a shame that they've made it more difficult to bring in CAD data into Carrara without jumping through some hoops. I'm fairly sure that in previous versions of Carrara there were no special steps needed, it just used the vertex normals that were provided in the file like you'd expect and like most programs do.

Just for my future reference in case someone else asks about it, where exactly do you go in the vertex room interface to enable the original imported vertex normals to be used?

- Michael