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Export from archicad to 3d studio max


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3ds files have always worked the best for me. but......Always Always Always, export with your drawing units set to 1000mm in archicad, no matter what units you work with in max be it metric or US standard. Otherwise you'll never get a properly scaled import.

 

I prefer to export by material it's a lot easier to work with less objects in max that way, and just detach the parts you need to adjust for cleanup purposes. You just have to really stay on the people who create the BIM model to keep their materials clean otherwise you'll get a model with a hundred materials. It's a huge pain in the butt, but so much in archicad is preprogrammed and the users typically don't care about material assignments which will make your job of cleanup difficult. But if you're going to do alot of design iterations it's easier to get them fixed on the archicad side rather than fixing it on the max side after every import.

 

And if you want an interative workflow that keeps bringing in new models to max from archicad, then check out the archicad import wizard tool. It's a bit out of date and has some flaws but where it does work it can save you time. Specifically when you are dumping a model, bring in a new one, you can use the material assigner to reassign all your old materials to the new model (again why it's good to export by material)

 

http://plugins.angstraum.at/archicad_wiz/index.htm

 

note: due to an update with max's interface since the tool was released it will actually install into the "group" menu in the file menu instead of the "tools" drop down as written in the setup.

Edited by BrianKitts
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