max to AutoCad

[PAWUK]

I work for a small Exhibition design company, a recent addition to the design studio models in max . However he’s come across a problem when he exports to AutoCad the drawing opens up tessellated. Its something I came across years ago but because I do it the other way round model in cad and render in max it was a problem without a needed solution.

 

The jobs been won, now he has to produce the working drawings but the dwg import cant be used , when the elevations are hidden the majority of the tessellations remain.

 

I know there’s probably an easy fix but been self-trained in both max and cad I can’t give him a solution, any help would be much appreciated

[Antisthenes]

by tessellation you mean his model is mesh and i sugest maybe ask if he can do it in NURBS then ?

[ajvbochove]

I came to this problem also.

I read that you need to set in AutoCAD:

DISPSILH = 1

ISOLINES = 1

and use HIDE (not 3dHIDE) and plot hide.

 

But it didn't work for me the last time.

I gave the model a material with color the same as the layercolor

(material with 253 and layer color 253)

 

When I insert rendered frames from Max I set the IMAGEFRAME in ACAD to 2 (no plot)

 

But I quess I miss a setting that would make the process easier.