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¿How to export .3ds from Autocad 2014?

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artista
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¿How to export .3ds from Autocad 2014?

¿How to export .3ds from Autocad 2014?

I want to export to .3ds ; Then import 3ds with KeyShot. Because if I import dwg in KeyShot, the faces are faceted.
I think the .3ds is the only format that puts me autosmooth in a solid 3d.

 

 
Grateful.
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Alfred.NESWADBA
in reply to: artista

Hi,

 

exporting to 3DS format is not supported since AutoCAD 2008 (if my remebering is ok).

To export geometry for visualization use the FBX-format instead and then you can convert it (using >>>FBX Converter<<<) to many formats used by rendering/visualization systems (if FXB is not supported directly).

 

For geometry the 3DS format has limitations (like the number of vertizes per object/mesh) that makes it not easy to transfer data nowadays.

 

- alfred -

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Message 3 of 8
artista
in reply to: Alfred.NESWADBA

Thanks, I did not know the fbx converter.

I remember in autocad 2009...
3dsout64bit_enu, appload AC3DSOUT.arx and ... 3dsout command.
Message 4 of 8
artista
in reply to: artista

Curious if from autocad, I make a simple sphere, a 3D solid, and exported to .fbx, tell me something like...

You can not export any of the specified objects...
¿What would you like to do?

Only visible objects that can be modeled can be exported to a fbx file.
This includes 3D solids, surfaces, and other types of objects.
(a sphere is a 3d solid, and I can not export. ¿I´m doing something wrong?)

-Export other types of objects (it export the camera well)

-Cancel the export operation
(Supplementary content)

None of the 2 options I exported the sphere.
Message 5 of 8
Alfred.NESWADBA
in reply to: artista

Hi,

 

>> I make a simple sphere, a 3D solid, and exported to .fbx

Can you upload that drawing?

 

- alfred -

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Message 7 of 8
Alfred.NESWADBA
in reply to: artista

Hi,

 

>> exported to .fbx, tell me something like...
>> You can not export any of the specified objects...

Sorry, my brain seems to get (small) black holes 😉

 

We had that some times ago ..  the difference is if you start command _EXPORT and then chose type FBX or if you start command _FBXEXPORT.

First does not work, second command works (same issue with 2015, not repaired).

 

- alfred -

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Message 8 of 8
artista
in reply to: Alfred.NESWADBA

_FBXEXPORT !!It is true !! works well.
thank you very much
I would have never thought to use _FBXEXPORT

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