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News and Updates on 3ds
Max/Design 2010
I'd like to let you know about
several items of note on 3ds Max 2010 and 3ds Max Design
2010.
Service Pack 1
The latest Service Pack from
Autodesk for Autodesk 3ds Max 2010 and Autodesk 3ds
Max Design 2010 software includes nearly 30 fixes for
issues with undo, performance, responsiveness,
viewports, material workflow, and mental ray software.
Specific areas addressed are Biped, Bitmap Pager, Bitmap
Proxies, Containers, Edit Poly, Interoperability,
Licensing, Materials, mental ray, Particle Flow,
Performance, Photometric Lights, ProOptimizer, Render To
Texture (RTT), Rendering, UVW Unwrap, and Viewports.
Download the 3ds Max Design 2010 service pack here:
http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/ps/dl/item?siteID=123112&id=13642201&linkID=10381720
Connection Extension
(Available to Autodesk
subscription accounts only.)
This is a really great deal for anyone who
needs to translate data into solid modeling or
anyone using Sketchup. Check it out...
The Connection Extension for Autodesk
3ds Max Design 2010 software makes it
easier and more cost-effective to turn
design data into more accurate, realistic
visualizations. New levels of
interoperability, based on intelligent data
workflows, between 3ds Max Design and CAD
software from both Autodesk and certain
third parties makes it easier for
architects, designers and visualization
specialists to leverage existing design data
and minimize rework.
Features and Benefits
- Import and export of SAT files
for moving solids-based design data
between 3ds Max Design and Autodesk
Revit, Autodesk Inventor, Alias Studio,
and third-party CAD products such as
Solidworks, Rhino, FormZ, and others.
- Efficient, accurate importing of
files from Google SketchUp, a common
tool in the architecture and design
communities, and access to thousands of
3D objects on Google's
3D Warehouse.
- Importing and exporting of
multi-layer OpenEXR files with
advanced options for transferring extra
elements (camera information, scripted
data, etc.) to support workflows with
compositing applications, thus reducing
the number of iterations required to
achieve the final result.
- Intelligent workflows Help
save time and avoid costly geometry
clean-up work with new, more effective
workflows for dealing with complex
scenes.
ImageModeler 2009
(Available to
Autodesk subscription accounts only.)
This image-based modeling and
photogrammetry software generates 3D models from
photographs, enabling artists, visualization
specialists, architects, and designers to view
designs in the context of existing environments.
In particular, Autodesk ImageModeler software
helps you save time when working on renovations
or projects in urban environments, where no
documentation about existing buildings is
available. Bridging the 2D and 3D worlds,
Autodesk ImageModeler enables you to more easily
capture reality as-built, take measurements of
buildings, and create photorealistic 3D models
and export them to 3ds Max Design, 3ds Max, or
Maya in different formats (Autodesk FBX file
format, OBJ, DWG).
MatchMover
(Available to Autodesk
subscription accounts only.)
Considered a critical production tool
at leading visual effects facilities, Autodesk
MatchMover software delivers high-quality 3D camera
tracking. Using this toolset, artists, visualization
specialists, architects and designers can extract
accurate 3D camera and motion data from video and film
sequences in order to insert computer graphics (CG)
elements into a scene. MatchMover provides automatic
tracking capabilities combined with the precision manual
controls that professional artists and design
visualization specialists demand.
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This page last edited on
Thursday, June 03, 2010
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By
Joy Voltenburg,
Multimedia Consultant,
Autodesk 3ds Max Certified Instructor
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