I'm trying to map art to a corrugated surface on a 3d shipping container I made in Illustrator. When I'm in 3D Extrude & Bevel Options: Map Art, there are 378 surfaces on my object. This makes mapping to one side of my object nearly impossible. I'm looking for a way to somehow merge or group the surfaces in such a way that each side of my shipping container is a single surface, rather than 100s of them. Perhaps this isn't possible in the current version, but it would make this feature a whole lot more useful to me if it was possible.

Hi Larry. Thanks for the workaround. Unfortunately, it's not going to work for my purposes. The scene I am depicting is a close up of a container at an oblique angle, so I need my artwork to look wrapped around the ribs. I've made an object in Strata CX and imported it into Photoshop.

Hi Wade. Thanks a ton for taking the time to make the video. You've provided a solution as well. The lesson that you and Monica have taught me is that Illustrator will see a single surface in 3D mode when smooth points are being used. I was using corner points. --jody.

Oops. I made the mistake of moving my object. I went from 4 to 42 surfaces. This is a very buggy feature. Once again, I'm having to figure out work arounds.

Instead of resizing using the scale tool or the selection tool  since it has an effect you want to resize it using another Effect which is;

Effects>Distort and tr4ansform<Transform that is the right way to scale an effect.

However you should also make certain you have Scale Strokes and Effects enabled in th eransform panel or your Illustrator Preferenbces under the general tab.

Read about workjing with effects in the help files.

You're welcome!

This is one of those threads that which should be marked answer so if you mark Monika's response as the correct answer it will help other users in the future.

Wade, you unearthed a flaw in this auto-forwarding of "Community Help" questions: only the Original Poster can award points and mark a question as answered ...