sirgooner

Thanks Miguel!

...anyone?... thought terrain extraction would be a common workflow for a lot of people

I was recently asked to see if I can get terrain topography & contours for a large area of Sri-lanka. I wanted to ask how you might go about that? - are there companies that you would recommend that can get this information, or else do you have a workflow for it? I know DEM data is readily available, I just find sometimes it's missing info, like roads and sometimes other information. I was looking at a trial of Infraworks 360 but having trouble exporting to 3ds Max and it's probably a bit too expensive for our immediate needs. Cheers, Gooner

Hi all, I was recently asked to see if I can get terrain topography & contours for a large area of Sri-lanka. I wanted to ask how you might go about that? - are there companies that you would recommend that can get this information, or else do you have a workflow for it? I know DEM data is readily available, I just find sometimes it's missing info, like roads and sometimes other information. I was looking at a trial of Infraworks 360 but having trouble exporting to 3ds Max and it's probably a bit too expensive for our immediate needs. Cheers, Gooner

Thanks all for the responses, I'll put some of those into action the next time we receive the Revit models. Regarding scripts to simplify the scene it would be handy to have a script that would make instances out of any similar object, I found a couple of scripts for that but neither worked. In fact any open source scripts you use to clean up a Revit scene would be great to have.

Thanks for your help Thomas, when you say 'scrub' your model in Revit first, do you mean to do some kind of purge?, I don't really use Revit so unaware of some of the clean up options it might have, also notice it can bring over thousands of shape layers which I don't need. @ Francisco, as I said I have done some searching, if I enter 'Revit 3ds Max' into the search engine on this site I mostly get posts from before 2010!.. so presume something has changed in the past 6-7 years. - you say you export to FBX and then use the link tool, isn't the link tool just for a Revit file?, wouldn't you just import an FBX using the normal import workflow?

Hey all, What is the definitive way to bring a Revit model to 3ds Max, I've tried dwgs and the object is broken into thousands of individual elements, FBX I think was the same, when I link the Revit file it takes an age to come through and then similar problems with a ridiculous amount of geometry. I also tried to use the 3ds Max Export Suite, sounds great, doesn't work, just crashed 3ds Max. Preferably I would like to bring all objects of one material to be brought through as one object, so I don't have to select thousands of meshes at a time. I have looked around for answers but nothing seems to work particularly well, this is all Autodesk so surely something works!.. ? Cheers, Martin