3d studio max to Sketchup

[Sketchrender]

I can not find a way to import models from 3ds max 8 to sketchup 5.

And smoove dose not do it for me.

So does anybody have a trick i can use.

 

many thanks in advance

 

phil

 

ps any word on vray 1.5 anybody.

[jophus14]

I have never heard to importing Max to SU, but I know you can import SU to max by going to FILE, Export, 3D Model then select 3DS as your file type.

[Sketchrender]

the models always triangulate , and thats the problem.

[DennisHolland]

That's the trick...

[rmoore97]

how about exporting as a .dwg from max and importing it into sketchup?

[BobM]

Save as 3ds file you can then import

[Nic H]

Has anyoine got a surefire hot shot way of getting quality meshes into max from SU?

[AJLynn]

Unfortunately no. It's something of a pain, what with triangulation and loss of instancing, and using a DWG file has its issues as well, so I've done it but not without an hour of two of cleaning up the important parts.

[Ricardo Eloy]

Everytime you switch programs, pain is the only thing you can be sure of. Triangles are the the "easy", the simplest way to create a mesh, so everytime you export a file you'll get them. Sad but true.

[Bugga_Guy]

import as a 3ds file, then apply the "soften" modifier until all the triangulation goes away.

[rmoore97]

I've actually started doing this lately in our studio, because we have a lot of mac users, and I refuse to give up modeling in max/viz. As Brain said when you import the model just change the soften edges slider until the triangulation disappears - checking the soften coplaner box helps sometimes too. Other things to consider are not using instances, because they just don't show up once imported, and don't change the pivot point or your object won't be in the correct location once imported. Other then those things I've had good success with importing files to Sketchup.

[kts.son]

Export to *.3ds then import to Sketchup-->Explore all --> Select all face and Right Click --> Erase coplaner edges

[BVI]

Max 2010 and do this natively:

 

http://usa.autodesk.com/adsk/servlet/pc/item?id=13606852&siteID=123112

 

We normally export the skp to a DWG and then import it into Max - seems the cleanest way. If the model is a mess, you can try import it as a DWG and then save it as an OBJ and then import that back into MAX. It breaks the symbolic links (if there were any) - this also works on REVIT models.