... and you should decide where the cylinder is straight and where it gets a curve to reduce the count of segments at the straight parts to only one.
EDIT:
This is a good point where you should change the modeling tool.
Try blender, look at the video tutorials of Nowherebrain and ventilator, and the huge number of explanations at blender.org.
As a low start you can download the small text file in my signature.
Last edited by Pappenheimer; 09/02/09 14:07.