illegalalieninbeijing Posted August 4, 2009 Share Posted August 4, 2009 (edited) Hello All. Any help or enlightenment will be greatly appreciated. I started having this problem today when I tried importing my AutoCAD Architecture 2010 3D model into 3DS Max Design 2010. It seems that for this particular file, it does not want to get attached as others would without any fuss. It would become visible in the work area but it will not show in the File Link Manager >File>Linked Files dialogue. Once you close the dialogue, the model disappears as well. This has never happened before as I usually go through this process plenty of times with the same file. I thought installing the service pack 1 would help but to no avail. I might be missing a couple of settings or two. Thanks a lot in advance. I also have to add that the AutoCAD model went through a lot saves with different versions from 2007, 2008 & 2009. I am also suspecting it has something to do with Object Enablers or AEC objects ( which I don't actually have in my model because I deleted them and replaced them with simplier models ). Thanks a lot and good day to all of you. Edited August 4, 2009 by illegalalieninbeijing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illegalalieninbeijing Posted August 5, 2009 Author Share Posted August 5, 2009 Here's an update. After exhaustingly tried and experimented several solutions to it, with the model either coming out really crappy, incomplete (lots of missing faces) or wouldn't come out at all (when using file link manager), the best way to get the model correctly to 3ds max Design 2010 was to use the old reliable 3DSOUT. I reinstalled an old copy of AutoCAD Architectural Desktop 2007 and installed the 3DSOUT utility from Autodesk. Importing the DWG directly to 3ds Max Design 2010 using the AutoCAD Legacy option also resulted to an incomplete model. Still, why is it behaving like this? Autodesk should have streamlined all possible problems by now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin Hunt Posted August 5, 2009 Share Posted August 5, 2009 I have been hammering the file link with no problems at all, been quite stable in fact. What happens if you file link a 2007 dwg? jhv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
illegalalieninbeijing Posted August 5, 2009 Author Share Posted August 5, 2009 I too had no problems with file link manager until today. I did successfully linked a couple of models into my current 3DS Max model. It is just this particular DWG file I have - it just won't attach itself. It is not even a large file ( 1.17 MB, 18,091 polys and 13,012 vertices ) & I know for a fact that it is clean (purged and audited plenty of times). It could be somewhere along the way when I was editing this model - this is my 4th amendment to it and it went through several versions of AutoCAD. Some parts/model in it it came from Sketchup 6.0 but I completely replaced them with AutoCAD surfaces (trust/compatibility issues). Anyway, what I did was I used the Architectural Desktop 2007 I had to export the model into a 3DS format. In 3ds Max Design 2010, I use import to open the 3DS file. I think the 3DSOUT utility only works with 2007s and 2008s. I don't think they have it for 2009s and 2010s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D.Qattan Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 Hello illegalalieninbeijing, I am facing the same issue which you have described. I link dwg files that I export from Revit. Everything was working okay in Max 2010 until suddenly I was not able to link any more. I have a suspicion that the issue has something to do with scale, but I have not been able to put my finger on it. I can 'import' the same file with exactly the same settings without a problem. Tried uninstalling, reinstalling, got all the latest SP's and hotfixes, etc. but to no avail. Do you have any further insight into the situation? I am really struggling here as I have not been able to find any other posts with a similar issue except for yours. Thanks in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dqattan Posted December 15, 2009 Share Posted December 15, 2009 After exhausting all troubleshooting possibilities, I have not been able to find an adequate solution. I have resigned to using the 3DS Max 2010 32-bit version (instead of the 64-bit). As no one has responded to my posts in the several forums I addressed, I am assuming this is a freak incident and hope it will be resolved with the next hotfix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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