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Thank you s much. It was tricky to find all places need to switch on the "Show Map in Viewport" because of several elements linked to create texture tiles. All the best,

Tnx. I'm not sure, but it might happened. Where is this button? I can't find it

I'm using max 2010 While working on my model, unexpected tiled floor turn to background color of the tiles ignoring the texture. Nothing of the following resolve my problem.: Creating new material. Using different texture JPG file I check the "Standard Display with maps" on material editor. Restart the PC. I also open my backup file and the same display problem. From the other hand, it appears in my rendered image. Any idea, please

Thanks. I forgot of this option ;-0

Hi, I'm trying to put mirror material on curved surface (window). It keeps display the triangles structure of the curve. Please any advice how to avoid this and get smooth surface as mirror should be? Also attached current rendering output. Regards,

Thank you so much for your assistance. I copied the model to new DWG file and import ran successfully and fast. Now I'm on-track with SKP. Regards,

Well . . . It all was looked fine But now I find out I cant make even the basic floor as there are many hidden object in this block and while creating the outline, those objects pops up and outline doesn't become closed, ever. I appreciate if you can take a look the DWG maybe I did something wrong. How it can be done?

Thank you Adrien for detailed instructions. I followed every step: Bind (my DWG is the only reference), Purge (All), Audit (0 errors), Save as 2004. The import outcome in SKP remain the same. As this is the first step in this SKP scene, I have no other layers might confuse or mixed. Never the less I collect all imported DWG layers into one SKP layer named DWG, also changed color to this layer, just in case. I only can select an empty rectangle in my SKP scene. So I tried something else: - DWG export to "other formats" -> type = Block (*.dwg) - Import on SKP - Collect all AutoCAD layers into single SKP layer and change its color. and it works. Now I have my DWG in SKP as a layer. Thank you again

I imported DWG file to SKP. No errors or warnings. Now on SKP, there is nothing displays but there are many layers and if I "select all" I can see th dwg frame (empty inside). Any idea? Should I do something in DWG before import?

Thank you Scott, I'll try it also. So far I'm not using this technique in this scene

Thank you so much Corey for immediate response. I hide now in my scene all freezed building layers and now scene runs fine. Thank you for the Xref information. It does helped a lot.

Hi, I have a SKP imported scene with 30 buildings, 5 stories in each. Each building "optimized" and exported to xref to reduce scene file size. I also use layers for each building type and freeze these layers. Current file size is 110 MB. I have difficulties to work with this scene as everything works sooooo slow. Also MAX get freeze often so I have to kill the process and reopen MAX. What can I do to improve UI response time and to complete the project in days and not in months (as it looks like now)? I thank for any suggestion.

Thanks. Inside link to the connection_extension tool is broken. I'll look for it elsewhere. Update: Download link: https://rapidshare.com/#!download|968p1|276533377|connection_extension_3dsmax.exe|26367|0|0|1|referer-5CED7B84308C22F79DCB4082ED9BE6A3 I have it installed and it works like rocket. Thank you very much

I have ~ 50MB .skp Sketchup8 file. I need to import this model to MAX 2010. Export to .3ds fails (reports somthing about Temp directory size, which I have plenty). I tried export to - FBX (1,500 MB) - DEA (53 MB) - DWG (58 MB) None of those exported file types completes import action. Any type I'm using cause my MAX to freeze. Any idea why it's happening? Which different way I should use for export skp so I'll be able to import in MAX?