30-D Animation?
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I would like to find out the machine setup to be able to take AutoCAD R12
drawings to AutoSurf to 3D Studio. What are the memory requirements? Any
special video card requirements?
The plan is to take our 2-D drawings, convert them to 3-D, then render and
animate them for presentation. We are just now entering the world of 3-D &
animation, so ANY advice will be appreciated. The feeling is we need to start
with a Pentium 100 Mhz or better. The choice of the above software is due to
we are already using AutoCAD R12, and a partner company is willing to help us
if we use the same software.
ANY help will be welcome!
Chuck Lambert
Chuck,
The most important item in the new computer is the amount of RAM. 32 meg is a
good starting point for most 3DS jobs and more is required for complex jobs
with lots of lights/reflections/tranparent materials/etc.
It goes without saying that a 1 gig HD is a minimum.
Save some money for Plug-in software like Optimize on Yost disk # 7. Sometimes
faces are flipped when coming from Acad and the meshes can be overly complex.
Optimize helps both problems.
What is it you do exactly?
TedB
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>>What is it you do exactly?<<
I work for a furniture manufacturer in the Product Development Dept.
We are betting that rendering/animation will help us to get more product that
are hits with less cost. We also believe there will be numerous pluses outside
Product Development.
Chuck
>> We are betting that rendering/animation will help us <<
Chuck,
I bet you're right.<g>
I've had several people in 3DS training classes ask if there are render ready
librarys from furniture manufacturers. Does your company plan on offering
something like that, eventually?
Some companies offer CAD libraries, but they are often difficult to use in
3DS.
Thanks
TedB
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>>I've had several people in 3DS training classes ask if there are render
>>ready librarys from furniture manufacturers. Does your company plan >>on
offering something like that, eventually?
Since we are still in the planning stages, I can not give you a
definate answer to that question. I would hope that we will
eventually. The main reason you can not get the libraries, is that
the furniture industry as a hole is behind when it comes to
technology. That has been my biggest problem with the furniture
industry the 10 yrs. I have been in it.
Chuck
>> the furniture industry as a hole <<
Well, good luck in getting them out of that "hole", Chuck<g>
TedB
-Ted Boardman
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>> Well, good luck in getting them out of that "hole", Chuck<g>
I realize I made a spelling error, but maybe NOT!
Chuck
Chuck:
Lots of RAM (32mb's or more), don't settle for 100mhz get a 120mhz or a 133mhz
pentium if they are out there yet. Are you running a network? If not, you'll
want to investigate this as well because your animations can be distributed
over as many computers as you have on your office network. R5 of 3DS will be
an NT release so you'd be well advised to set yourself up for migration if you
want to keep apace the Autodesk family of products.
Bob
>> Are you running a network?<<
Yes, we have been networked for a number of years now.
>>R5 of 3DS will be an NT release so you'd be well advised to set >>yourself up
for migration if you want to keep apace the Autodesk family >>of products.
Why is Autodesk only going to support 3DS in the NT environment with its next
release?
Will the next release work with Windows 95 (since 95 is suppose to be some what
compatible with NT)?
Chuck
Chuck:
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Why is Autodesk only going to support 3DS in the NT environment with its next
release? __________________________________________________________________
Autodesk has stated that they will continue to support r4 for some duration in
the DOS environment to smooth the transition to NT. There is a file "3dnt.txt"
in the library which gives some insights into the 'why' 3DS is going to move to
NT.
As far as Windows95 support not much is clear and comments are few from the
official sources. I believe that there are those who have managed some
successes with r4 and Windows95 but to be cautious I would not expect R5 to be
compatible with Win95. Personally, I don't know that I'll ever run Windows95.
I was hoping for a move to NT and my ship has come in.
Bob