Hi, Im responding to your comments posted about finding a max to adt process, Ive been looking into that recently, know a tiny bit about adt, Im getting some assistance from some colleagues, but, im think im may be on to a system that may work in theory, there may be some kinks with file size, not looked to much into that, but, essentially, (this is an evolution of how we have worked before adt, breaking a autocad 3d model down by layers, each layer would be a different material, say, aluminum layer, or brick layer, in max that allowed us to quickly isolate which objects needed what material. In adt though, for example you can have a wall with two sides on the same layer, making the layer material assigning system kind of funny, you cant have a clear way to put materials on by material, but, I was thinking about how you can set object styles in adt and order them by color, in max there is a script, or simply just by sorting by color, you can quickly isolate what object and assign it a material. That’s the idea, ive been having trouble creating the display object style in adt there, not sure if that’s how you create it, truthfully it is under wall style or object style display style, ive talk with others at work and they say it can be done, ill be trying it later this week. Any input would be appreciated, specially on the adt side, I'm trying to avoid converting the adt model to solids, also which I didn’t say, im primarly using only a handfully of layers from the adt, only those which are essential for the rendering, so the file doesn’t become bloated and crash.
Tomas Ramirez
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3D Graphics
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