CompuServe Messages

Don't feel TOO left about about being "linkless". About all these two programs give you is the ability to assign mapping and material to entities before export from ACAD to 3DS – if your end goal is to render in 3DS eventually. Neither do anything new or magical for making entities more 3DS/normal friendly – you still have to model well. In fact, neither provides a method for flipping or unifying normals (let alone welding). As far as R3 support goes – AutoVision is about as R2 as VL was, but it really doesn't matter because all of those abilities are 3DS's and you'll be using them there.