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#ProE Jr to 3ds
Message #183443
Has anyone had experience getting a ProE or ProE Jr. file into 3d studio?? I tried bringing an IGES file into Acad thinking I could get it into 3ds from there, but got alot of "can't deal with Entity type 144" messages. Are there tricks or 3ird party programs that…
#3ds4 render crashes
Message #180662
I'm getting alot of crashes rendering 3ds4 animations. I guess it's a display problem, but I'm not sure what to try. Some of the sample animations that are on the CD Rom always crash it (like the dinosaur one). Also when I render an animation, unless it's the very first…
#Flip-books?
Message #180274
Does anyone know of a program that can take 3ds output and let you print it out as a flip-book? -Scott
Terry- The object was created in AcadR13. The smoothing groups appear to be valid, at least they follow what I would have done if I were smoothing it. The differences between transparent areas and opaque areas are very sharp and occur on flat surfaces where a highlight would be uniform.…
The bands of material differences are very disinct. The object is a square column with radiused corners and a hole punched in the side. The bands start and stop crisply at mesh lines. Probably a useful effect for some situations, but not what I need. -Scott
Phil- In the key framer, yes. In the 3d editor, no.
#Material Morph Hates Me
Message #178766
I'm trying to morph an opaque material to a transparent one. The two objects are identical otherwise (copies of eachother actually). At the peak of the morph, I get transparent bands of material in an otherwise opaque object. Any suggestions. I've tried a bunch of stuff, but basically did everything…
That's nice to hear. I've been wanting to move our printer off of my machine but have been afraid to because of the warnings in the 3d studio manual. I wanted to be pretty sure it would work before drilling new holes in the partitions and re-routing cables.
Jim- Consider yourself lucky if you aren't using a networked printer. Networks often require you to redirect your parallel ports in order to share another computer's printer. When the software looks for the hardware lock, guess what? It gets lost. The 3D Studio doccumentation suggests that you only run 3D…