# Issue with lines and surfaces alignment and strange geometries

**URL:** <https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/issue-with-lines-and-surfaces-alignment-and-strange-geometries/32527>\
**Category:** Rhino for Windows\
**Created:** [May 16, 2016, 9:12pm UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/issue-with-lines-and-surfaces-alignment-and-strange-geometries/32527 "2016-05-16T21:12:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![philip.gusmano](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/87869e/32.png) [@philip.gusmano](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/philip.gusmano)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2016, 9:12pm UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/issue-with-lines-and-surfaces-alignment-and-strange-geometries/32527/1 "2016-05-16T21:12:58Z")

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Hello,

I received a rhino model earlier today from a coworker in a different office. When I opened up the model there seems to be great issues and distortion in the modeling… Is this a result of sloppy modeling work by the creator or something different happening in rhino?

thanks!

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**Author:** ![Helvetosaur](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/mcneel/user_avatar/discourse.mcneel.com/helvetosaur/32/635974_2.png) [@Helvetosaur](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/Helvetosaur)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2016, 9:36pm UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/issue-with-lines-and-surfaces-alignment-and-strange-geometries/32527/2 "2016-05-16T21:36:48Z")

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> [@philip.gusmano](#):
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> Is this a result of sloppy modeling work by the creator

No, I think you’re just [very far from the origin](http://wiki.mcneel.com/rhino/farfromorigin)…

> Objects that are extremely far (millions of units) from the world origin  
> suffer from display and precision problems due to the polygon mesh  
> vertex locations being represented by a single precision number. This  
> affects the appearance of shading and rendering and the appearance of  
> polygon mesh objects.

The main solution is to move the objects closer to the origin. That isn’t always possible though. The linked page above has one type of solution.

HTH, --Mitch

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**Author:** ![philip.gusmano](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/87869e/32.png) [@philip.gusmano](https://discourse.mcneel.com/u/philip.gusmano)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2016, 9:49pm UTC](https://discourse.mcneel.com/t/issue-with-lines-and-surfaces-alignment-and-strange-geometries/32527/3 "2016-05-16T21:49:53Z")

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that did the trick! thank you for your help!

Phil