not sure why you would like to do that, or even if there is a simple way to do it. I got lost on the part that you are explaining of hiding edges. in some cases will be better to collapse similar mesh instead of grouping. While working inside 3D Max it is always better to have less objects with many polygons than have many objects with few polygons.Īnd here is where 3D Max will work better for you to do renderings, you can collapse the parts of your scene in to few meshes and still give different materials for different part of that mesh.
it is very basic file format.įBX in the other hand is a newer file format that will carry material information textures and more. Going to your workflow, as mentioned by Alfred, moving meshes from one 3D application to other always create some problem translating material properties, between most Autodesk product you can maintain most textures and material properties but other file format are legacy file format so they are not compatible not much compatible any more.ĭWG format is not know to translate material, the main point of this format it it contain a good amount of shape information (polygons and vertex) and is easy to read for many software. Inside of 3D Max, now you have 3 render engines, well there is more but those are the general, You have Scanline, Mental Ray and Art render, this last one has a single slide to control quality, it is very, very simple to use and create great images.
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My question to you is why do you 'need' to render inside of REVIT? usually is the other way around, people export from REVIT to render inside 3D Max.ģD Studio Max is a software designed to do that, statics and animated renderings, with more options and tools designed to create visualizations. If you know of any way that this could be more efficient please let me know. The imported family accepted the materials assinged and rendered correctly. DXF file had the approprate layers, it was saved as a. My issue here was the characteristics was set to default and not "by layer" Must have been a programming update.) But this was the only way I could have the object become a solid mass and not lines in the other AutoDesk software.įinally in AutoCAD, managing the layers was the last task as noted in other posts. DWF file, the last trick was to ensure the file was in an AutoCAD 2007 format. (as shown in the video)ĭuring the export to. I could then select the edjes of the object and select Invisable. This now allowed me to access more options in the Edit Mesh list. By doing so, the program would condence all of the previous individual objects into one object. DXF file and then re-opening the recently saved. Unfortunatly, the grouping which was set up to use the ProOptimizer did not allow me to use the invisable command in the edit Mesh.īy accident I determined that I needed one Object. The next step was to make each object invisable as shown in the video.
the screws, and using the ProOptimizer became much easier.
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Once I determined how to group objects,I could remove the objects which were not necessary for the render i.e.
Unfortunatly using the ProOptimizer after converting each object to an Editable Mesh was unrealistic as there was over 160,000 objects. FBX format, with objects from the side pannels, glass, engine parts, down to the last screw.) As you can imagine the file was extreamly large and over 10 million faces which needed to be condenced to 32,000 faces per object. (Created by mechanical engineers and given to me in a. As I mentioned before the model I was trying to export is very complex. **What the video does not show is multiple objects in 3DSMAX being grouped and ungrouped. Steps I took to make transfering the file work To answer your question." When you mention surface properties, is this in 3ds Max? I'm sure I'm just misunderstanding, but can you please explain this a bit more for me or provide a link so I can see what you mean? Thanks so much for that! The only edge properties I can think of are wireframe on shaded and the triangulation display by unchecking "Edges Only" in the display menu." I have worked through the process (please see the steps I took below, also the Revit Form which I posed the same question).