DXF to 3DS and Back
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Donald,
I'm not sure you're correct in ALL your complaints. You can at
least maintain materials assignment By Color during transfer when importing
into 3DS R2 (not with DXF3DS) . 3DS R2 does save render configuration in a
PRJ file (at least it does on my system, which has setups for a VGA, a
Truevision Targa+ and Truevision 1024-32). CFIG386 is documented in the
3DS R2 Installation & Performance Guide, if not in the DXF3DS utility.
Kevin Krell – Computer Support Associates
Kevin, Thanks for the info about material assignments by color in 3DS
R2. I didn't know that. We have had a bunch of problems with DXF3DS,
which we have not yet even resolved with CFIG386 — some DXF files
produce a memory allocation errror and the two times that I have
tried it, loading files by color only looks at enitity color, and not
at layer color. I was just hoping that someone at Adesk would at
least put something in the DXF3DS documentation about its memory
use. You are right about R2 PRJ files, they do store device and
resolution info correctly (I think?) but I had thought when I started
using it that I was having to reset things more often. How about the
image output path/name? I think that that was stored in R1! -Donald
Newlands
Kevin, I need to amend my last message: As far as I can tell, 3DS R2
does not save the device or the image output path in a PRJ file–it
returns toto the defaults in 3DS.SET. This is a pain for us as we
are using a range of devices (null, vga, rdpadi) and constantly
working with different project directories. To the best of my
recollection, Release 1 did not have this problem. -Donald Newlands
Donald,
Close, but no cigar. If you change the Image Path under Configure,
it will save and restore with the .PRJ file. The Render Configure dialog
will save the resolution you've chosen w/the .PRJ, but not the device
(RDPADI, NULL, etc.) – that IS reset from the .3DS file. At least with the
res. & aspect correct, it's not too difficult to change the device.
Kevin Krell – Computer Support Associates