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Hi, My design team creates in Studio Max. Once our design is complete, we have to get this to our estimators, who then price our design. We have a significant time management problem with this because of a lack of creating dimension layouts inside Studio Max. Here's a quick overview of what we do right now:
Once the design is complete, we export it to SketchUp, which has a nice dimension tool. It's also easy to print this and put it in a book for our estimators; however, because of what we do, we have to massage the model before we can export. We have to remove high-poly furniture, etc., which takes time. Half of the time, there are import problems, stray lines, etc, all of which slow the process down. This alone can create an hour of extra work to get the model in correctly. Then we have to save jpgs and put these into a book to send to the estimator. I find it silly that we have to leave Studio Max to do this.
Some scripts add dimension tools, but they are mediocre at best. They are often written for simple designs. Many crash or can't find points or simply disappear from the program. And dimensions are only the first part. We need a simple way to get this onto a layout page.
From my research, even Autocad light requires exporting our models as dwg, which is going to cause a slow down again. Maybe I'm wrong here?
Does anyone have a good solve for this? I'm willing to buy whatever software is needed. My brain sees this as a simple fix. Simple Dimensions and Layout inside Studio Max or another Autodesk program that reads the max file that we don't have to spend hours messaging.
Please help! 🙂
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