xgarcia

Wow...10,632 posts since my last visit. It's been that long. Just dropping by and saying hello. I've mostly stopped working in 3D vis and been working on my architectural internship the last few years. I'm starting graduate school this fall so I'll probably be around again - nothing like 3D work in school. peace! Xavier

Thanks for the tips gentlemen. I could not recover the tiff files. I can open the files in the image buffer in Max6 as well as load them as backgrounds but they come in as grayscale. The only thing I can think of is for someone with access to a SGI machine open the tiffs and convert them to jpegs or bitmaps and email them back to me. Any volunteers...perhaps I'll try CGtalk - more visual FX guys there with SGI machines? See the attached image for the format of tif file the images were saved out as from Max6. Any more suggestions beside the one above? Thanks. Xavier

I need serious help. My schoolmate has rendered out something like 10 images from a Max6 project and saved the file output as 16 bit SGI LogL tif format. The files will not open in Photoshop 7.0 - I think he intended to save the files as 8-bit rather than 16-bit SGI. Is there anything he can do on a windows XP machine to open the file besides re-rendering (6 hours or so). Ths project is due today by end of day...it's 8:00 in the morning here. Thank you for you help in advance. Xavier

you still need to change the wood grain in the columns - horiz.to vert.

here ya go

Dude - Artic Silver III Thermal Compound. Forget that sissy "thermal tape" crap - it melts all over the chip. Search for Artic Silver in the hardware forum. I get mine from Newegg. Congrats on the Xeons - wish I had a pair.

Cesar was porbably thinking "counter-strike" (the online game)?!! I spoke to a friend of mine who is a partner in a very large corporate architecrue firm in Houston (150+ employees). They get jobs of the 500,000+ sf area. He said the firm tried Revit & Desktop but neither could handle the massive BIM generated for the projects. They're using standard Autocad just like our firm (15 people). Any idea what kind of hardware you need to really run one of these huge projects through Revit or Dekstop or even Archicad for that matter? I'd be interested to know.

We leave ours on all the time except for storms (ie hurricanes) or when you need to replace parts or change monitors (never). ALl the boxes on the network defrag, virus scan & update at night. As well as the servers backing up (the server nevers goes off). If you set your monitors (lcd or crt) for power saving and your computer for standy mode - you won't waste energy.

We're using McAfee Enterprise 7.1 - updates daily @ 11:45pm and scans @ 12:15am. Then we have Perfect Disk 6.0 setup to defrag (smart placement) at 3:00am. Machines runs smoother than before when they were not defragged.

Perfectdisk 6.0 (for windows 2000 / XP). Best defragger I've ever used. Raxco has a trial you can download. I've got my machines set to defrag local drives every night @ 3am.

Sketchup is the way to go. I haven't touched Max in 2 weeks. I'm having some much fun with Sketchup. The possiblities combined with Photoshop are endless.

Work: Samsung 191T 19" LCD (using DVI, for design/drafting, 3D, photoshop) Home: Samsung 153T 15" LCD (using analog, this one is for email / web/ family stuff)

This myself, with my three kids. My daughter is in the middle, she's 3. My 2 year old son, whose birthday we're celebrating, is on the right. I'm holding my other son, who in the picture was 1.5 months. He's almost 3 months now. My amazing and infinitely patient wife took the picture.

Strat - are you using ADT now? I thought you were plain autocad fella?

Try slicing (w/ remove mesh turned on) rather than boolean - in max. THis would be much easier in Autocad or Sketchup.